11.   Former American intelligence officials familiar with counterespionage cases said that the FBI and CIA have tended not to engage in such retaliatory measures, at least in recent years.

12.   He declined to talk about retaliatory measures during his stops in Seattle and Olympia.

13.   He held out the possibility of retaliatory measures against American products if threatened anti-dumping duties are imposed.

14.   However, the spokesman said the court would not rule against the United States merely as a retaliatory measure.

15.   Instead it must act with deference to OPEC nations so as to not provoke retaliatory measures that limit production or exports.

16.   In the past, American efforts to oust Russian intelligence officers have led to such retaliatory measures, depleting the American intelligence presence in Moscow.

17.   It was an extraordinary retaliatory measure even for a sport in which retribution is expected.

18.   Moreover, direct attacks on American citizens would constitute a special provocation and call for clear retaliatory measures.

19.   Netanyahu met with senior security chiefs in the evening, and was scheduled to meet with the full Cabinet on Friday to decide on retaliatory measures.

20.   The EU has attacked it by striving to undermine its legal base, and through retaliatory measures aimed at U.S. companies and citizens.