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That prospect prompted Boston police to issue a counterthreat, vowing to refuse to drive squad cars citywide unless public funds were used to pay O'Brien's debt.

From Time Magazine Archive

Men and nations launched moves without any knowledge of where the moves would lead�action led to reaction, threat to counterthreat.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ypsilanti's city councilmen issued a counterthreat: if Carolyn did not play, they would cut off city support for the league and bar it from public ballfields.

From Time Magazine Archive

More than once he mentioned "the need to fire empty cannons" in the diplomatic world of rhetorical threat and counterthreat.

From Time Magazine Archive

Not only did he miss the opportunity to disown the offensive characterization of Burr; he raised the rhetorical stakes with his dismissive tone and gratuitously defiant counterthreat.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis