tit for tat

I didin't invite her to my party because she didn't invite me to hers. It's was just tit for tat.

Tit for Tat Getting Out of Hand Shots fired across the DMZ at a time of such tension is a potential disaster waiting to happen.

Without a watchdog of this kind the bail-outs could easily have escalated into a wave of tit-for-tat subsidies for national champions.

"That's what a trade war looks like, when it is tit-for-tat, " Lim said. "And it is all happening in and around anti-subsidy law. "

It was the latest move in an increasingly bitter tit-for-tat dispute that has engulfed two of Asia's largest economies for nearly two weeks.

The two companies are engaged in a legal tit-for-tat around the world as they fight for dominance of the electronic-gadget market.

This was a tit-for-tat gesture after the United States sent ships to support Georgia after its brief war with Russia last summer.

No other nation appears to have been targeted, but the UK ambassador denied there were any grounds for a tit-for-tat gesture.

This highlights one of the dangers facing India now: of a rise in communal tension and tit-for-tat violence.

Outcome : This is going to be a hard fight for both combatants, although it will likely start as a tit-for-tat boxing match .

Commercial relations between the EU and China could easily end up the other way around, with escalating tit-for-tat protectionism.

"Construction of building of ground platoon type " with " the wall discharges a product " appeared the contradiction of give tit for tat.

I told her if she did me any harm I would return tit for tat.

The alternative of an escalating tit-for-tat trade dispute between Europe and America does not bear thinking about.

Mary asked Lily to apologize to her in public and said it's tit for tat.

Confronting China's export subsidies risks a similar tit-for-tat cycle at a time when the global economic recovery is weak.

The United States threatened to invoke international law to force Pakistan to lift its diplomatic tit for tat travel restrictions.

I didn't invite Jane to my party because she didn't invite me to hers. It was just tit for tat.

Conclusion: tit for tat is not suggested dealing with misunderstanding because that only makes things worse and adds insult to injury.

In a tit-for-tat race between the two, Pakistan began testing nuclear weapons in 1998, ignoring protests from America.

Clearly China and many of its trade partners are engaged in an escalating series of tit-for-tat trade disputes.

Security men believe the tit - for - tat murder are a result of the Birmingham bombing.

In Kashmir this had led to a round of tit-for-tat diplomatic incidents.

This raised trade barriers in the US and set off a flurry of tit-for-tat retaliation around the world.

The operation, conducted in early May, also set off an escalating tit-for-tat scuffle between American and Pakistani spies.

After a few cautious early rounds the heavy weights will go tit-for-tat in the middle rounds.

But it is not far-fetched to suggest that its actions could help set off a round of tit-for-tat protectionism.

The two countries had already expelled each other's ambassador in a tit-for-tat episode after a coup in Fiji in 2006.

The tit-for-tat violence is further complicating prospects to draft a truce between Israel and the militant Islamic group Hamas.

The tit-for-tat moves have raised concerns that an accident could occur and lead to a dangerous cycle of retaliation.

This may explain why Moscow chose to escalate the tit-for-tat by suspending the issuance of visas for British officials.

I remain amazed by your heroics that to assailants , you hit back tit for tat; to provokers, you reasoned fact for fact.

Unlike straightforward tit-for-tat, social retaliation was having a marked effect.

An almost total rupture in diplomatic relations and tit-for-tat retaliation dragged on for weeks.

Laird pointed out that our effort in Vietnam was certain to suffer if we became involved in a tit-for-tat with North Korea.

The little girl tore her brother's book, and tit for tat he hid her doll.

For the US, a tit for tat trade war is a dangerous game because China remains the country's banker.

Antidumping and safeguard tariffs on Chinese goods have sparked tit-for-tat cases.

Sten Tolgfors, Swedish trade minister, said that European companies would suffer from tit-for-tat measures as protectionism rose.

This is precisely why the risk of tit-for-tat protectionism will remain a serious threat until the global recession comes to an end.

Both companies are involved in several tit-for-tat legal tussles over patent rights.

Tit for tat. John kicked me, so I gave him tit for tat.

He hit me so I hit him back it was a tit for tat.

That said, however, it is critical that Washington not play a tit-for-tat game with Chinese investment.

But analysts say this year's tit-for-tat exchange has been sharpened by Beijing's crackdown on dissent.

Tit-for-tat resistance is our instinct, but which will often make the ignoramus more intensified.

It is well-known to game theorists that in such situations a tit-for-tat response is the optimal strategy.

Tit-for-tat trade measures and legal challenges are on the increase.

And this behavior is likely to trigger a series of tit for tat expulsions with each other.

You won't feel the need to impress or respond to bad manners with the same tit-for-tat.

But most of these fights have a local, tit-for-tat feel.

We can expect the tit-for-tat political posturing going forward and in a way thatmay be damaging to U. S. commercial interests.

But tit-for-tat protectionism from Brussels will make problems worse, not better.

Tit for tat never solved anything.

And the tit-for-tat violence continues.

Rachel: Come on, he's right. Tit for tat.

Billy hit me, so I give him back tit for tat.

In other words, it's fair, tit for tat.

You hit me, I hit you . Tit for tat .

They competed to raise my hand for their views, and even some Dr. tit-for-tat.

The United States and Venezuela are to return their ambassadors to each other's capitals following tit-for-tat expulsions last year.

This is a tit for tat reply from China.

He often speaks ill of me, and I give him tit for tat

A lot of this research focuses on the "tit-for-tat" theory of co-operation: