If you fire your weapons, and even a single shot comes in contact with my ship, I'll have no choice but to take retaliatory action.
It came close to the ground, but otherwise took no retaliatory action.
In the end, Johnson decided not to take retaliatory action.
"It will be considered a threatening act against China, a retaliatory action."
If retaliatory action simply highlights to the world how little can physically be done.
This retaliatory action would speak more eloquently than any words about the American will.
Such an investigation, which generally lasts a year, could lead to retaliatory action by the President.
Explanations could come later, perhaps before retaliatory action was discussed.
Indian officials say they are taking the possibility of retaliatory action very seriously.
If the negotiations failed, the Administration would be required to take retaliatory action.
