No decision on a possible retaliation had been reached by the time the Clinton administration left office.

Some settlers fired back, and the army began positioning tanks for a possible retaliation.

The police think he is running to escape possible retaliation from the mob.

According to one source, he has been given a new name to protect him from possible retaliation by other inmates.

The prospect of possible retaliation by Japan caused a stir in the financial markets.

Patton believed that people would be reluctant to make calls because of possible retaliation or threats against those who called.

She performed it at the club in 1939, with some trepidation, fearing possible retaliation.

Since they had launched the time war, they were surely prepared for possible retaliation.

"I'm not going to speculate on any possible retaliation by the Government of China," she said.

He said some of them may have gone on to third countries, and held out the prospect of possible American retaliation, without being specific.