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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#4384 | mutual | |
#57902 | reprisal | |
#60764 | retaliatory | |
#200752 | revengeful |
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Democratic Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin:
Most wars, you get this tit-for-tat that goes in this spiral, and then suddenly each side has its back up and you can't back down, and you inadvertently fall into war, i think we are at very high risk of doing right now. So, it's not just about intent. It's our actions mean something beyond our control.
If things got a little bit tit-for-tat, then there are obviously risks at a minimum that we need to be attentive to.
Hence, this looks like a tit-for-tat response from the steel mills who were feeling international pressure from steel anti-dumping investigations and tariffs.
Its a really tough environment for lawmaking, first, the parties are surely more ideologically polarized from each other than they were decades ago. Second, theres more sheer partisanship in town than before -- tit for tat, your team is for it, so my team is against it. Third, close electoral competition narrows the window for dealmaking -- each election offers each party a chance to hold or gain control. ... [ And, ] because the president is so unpopular nationally and with independents, theres limited pressure on Democrats to resolve problems.
Despite both countries' desire to avoid a major escalation, there remains a risk of tit-for-tat retaliatory action.
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- دختر یا زن برای توری حاشیه بافتنPersian
- gayung bersambutIndonesian
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