retaliation
(noun)
a sometimes violent response to an act of harm or perceived injustice.
Examples of retaliation in the following topics:
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Promotional Objectives
- A promotional plan can have a wide range of objectives, including: sales increases, new product acceptance, creation of brand equity, positioning, competitive retaliations, or creation of a corporate image.
- A promotional plan can have a wide range of objectives, including: sales increases, new product acceptance, creation of brand equity, positioning, competitive retaliations, or creation of a corporate image.
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Whistleblower Protection
- Whistle-blower protection provides safeguards against retaliation for those who report suspected legal or ethical violations.
- The Whistleblower Protection Act safeguards government employees from management retaliation.
- The No Fear Act prohibits federal managers and supervisors from engaging in unlawful discrimination and retaliation.
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Protecting Whistleblowers
- Investigation of retaliation against whistleblowers falls under jurisdiction of the Office of the Whistleblower Protection Program (OWPP) of the Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
- The patchwork of laws means that victims of retaliation must determine the deadlines and means for making proper complaints.
- Federal employees could benefit from the Whistleblower Protection Act as well as the No-Fear Act, which made individual agencies directly responsible for the economic sanctions of unlawful retaliation.
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The Year of Blood
- The Native Americans executed these captives in retaliation for the Gnadenhütten massacre.
- This painting depicts the ritual torture Crawford endured in retaliation for the massacre of Christian Delawares (though Crawford had no role in that massacre).
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Sexual Harrassment
- Victims who do not submit to harassment may also experience other forms of harassment including retaliation in the form of isolation or bullying.
- Common psychological effects of sexual harassment and retaliation that could affect your academic, professional, financial or social life include:
- Increased health care costs and sick pay costs because of the health consequences of harassment and/or retaliation;
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The War in the West
- Most of the action in the West consisted of escalating series of retaliations between frontier settlers and local indigenous populations.
- The intensity of the conflict increased as settlers retaliated.
- In a subsequent campaign led by Colonel William Crawford against American Indian communities along the Sandusky River in May 1782, Crawford was captured and tortured in retaliation for the Gnadenhütten massacre.
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Promotion Objectives
- A promotional plan can have a wide range of objectives, including sales increases, new product acceptance, creation of brand equity, positioning, competitive retaliations, or the creation of a corporate image.
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China
- This support has resulted in threats of retaliation from China.
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From Protectionism to Liberalized Trade
- The act, which quickly led to foreign retaliation, contributed significantly to the economic crisis that gripped the United States and much of the world during the 1930s.
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Economic Retaliation and Reaction to the Townshend Acts