| But after eight years of more or less permanent warfare, tit-for-tat raiding and headhunting, he grasped a rare opportunity for freedom. |
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| However, they too became subject to restraint in September 1986 after a tit-for-tat sequence of measures and countermeasures. |
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| We know only too well the cycle of violence, the tit-for-tat, the eye for an eye. |
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| At the beginning of March, mutual violence and tit-for-tat killings intensified, leaving little hope for an early solution to the conflict. |
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| Retaliation could easily lead to a tit-for-tat escalation that would be difficult to halt short of general war. |
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| I usually put my comments in a general, not individual context, because I don't want to do the tit-for-tat insult thing many commentators do. |
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| Other feminist sites have championed objectifying men in tit-for-tat fashion as empowering women. |
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| Moscow responded with tit-for-tat expulsions. |
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| Feelings are running high in Britain and the crisis must be resolved quickly, otherwise there will be tit-for-tat retaliation on both sides of the channel. |
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| A clear tit-for-tat policy should apply here: if Member States fail to address fraud and the waste of European funds adequately, this should have consequences in terms of the level of funds they receive. |
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| Such hope is vital if we are ever to transcend the perpetual tit-for-tat, zero-sum game of everyday politics. |
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| Mathematical and computer-based simulations have shown, for example, that a simple strategy of tit-for-tat can generate the highest payoff of all, even in a classic Prisoner's Dilemma situation. |
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| Even if the caller had been particularly unpleasant during his call, and the Panel finds that that was not the case, that would not have given rise to the tit-for-tat actions that Jarraud and Daigneault took. |
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| If a joint team of control officials from the relevant countries can establish that tax legislation has been misused and abused, a tit-for-tat approach is possible. |
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| Indeed, by August the number of steel products exempted from the tariffs had grown, dampening the ire of US trading partners and raising the chances of averting an open clash and tit-for-tat actions. |
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| Tough tit-for-tat policy is necessary in order to prevent, or discourage, repetition. |
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| In a tit-for-tat row both sides are hurling accusations of vote rigging and smear campaigns and each has referred cases to police. |
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| France condemns the tit-for-tat spiral of violence. |
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| The fount of social problems, he argues, is that human morality grew out of the natural principles of tit-for-tat and mutual backscratching. |
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| The tit-for-tat strategy may be viewed as an agent content to satisfice but not content to be a sucker. |
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