It is a strategy that evens up the odds but invites retaliation.

The tariffs invite retaliation on goods American companies export.

"Such an action would invite retaliation and would not be very effective in any case."

"This is the kind of thing that invites retaliation," he said.

Violating this most basic rule invited harsh retaliation by the guards.

Opening up on them would have invited massive retaliation.

They also say it could invite retaliation by other nations.

Most fear that doing so would invite retaliation from a regime that's likely to be as repressive next June as it is now.

On the contrary, it invited effective Polish economic retaliation.

Only 2 percent said they thought that a dissenting opinion would invite such retaliation.