Wiktionary
vb. (context intransitive English) To retaliate
WordNet
v. make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil; "The Empire strikes back"; "The Giants struck back and won the opener"; "The Israeli army retaliated for the Hamas bombing" [syn: retaliate]
Wikipedia
Strike Back was the third album released by German heavy metal band Steeler and produced by Frank Bornemann. Strike Back was released by SPV/Steamhammer in 1986.
Strike Back may refer to:
- Strike Back (album), a 1986 album by the German band Steeler
- Strike Back, a 2007 novel by author Chris Ryan
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Strike Back (TV series), a TV series based on the Ryan novel
- Chris Ryan's Strike Back, the first series, aired in 2010
- Strike Back: Project Dawn, the second series, aired in 2011
- Strike Back: Vengeance, the third series, aired in 2012
- Strike Back: Shadow Warfare, the fourth series, aired in 2013
- Strike Back: Legacy, the fifth series, aired in 2015
Strike Back is a British/American television series based on a novel of the same name by novelist and former Special Air Service (SAS) soldier Chris Ryan. The series follows the actions of Section 20, a secretive branch of the British Defence Intelligence service (DI), who operate several high risk, priority missions throughout the globe. The series began broadcasting on Sky1 on 5 May 2010, showing the first six-part series. After a second series was commissioned, it was announced that Cinemax would co-produce the franchise. The first episode of the ten-part second series, under the banner title Project Dawn in the United Kingdom, first aired on Cinemax on 12 August 2011. The ten-part third series, under the title Strike Back: Vengeance, began airing on Cinemax on 17 August 2012. On 3 October 2012, Cinemax and Sky commissioned a fourth series, which was broadcast on Cinemax beginning 9 August 2013. A ten episode fifth and final series aired in 2015. The final episode aired on 29 July 2015.
Executive producer Andy Harries gained hold of the novel and pitched a television adaption to Sky, even though he had not read it. Sky commissioned the series as part of a £10 million commitment to adapt novels into original dramas following the successes of adapting Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. Following Cinemax's participation from the second series, the series faced a re-imagining due to the absence of first series lead Richard Armitage, who was at the time filming The Hobbit in New Zealand. Before filming several cast members participated in bootcamp training by former SAS and Special Boat Service (SBS) officers. The series was filmed on location in South Africa, although parts of the second series were filmed in Hungary.
Ratings for Strike Back were relatively high for the original networks. The Sky1 premiere was viewed by almost 400,000 viewers (according to overnight figures), tripling the average audience share for the channel's time slot after three months. Project Dawn premiered to over 600,000. The Cinemax premiere saw the network's best ratings since 2005. All five series have been or will be released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc.
Usage examples of "strike back".
But once we began to strike back at them, everyone went running to the Federation to mediate.
More than anything else in the world right now, he wanted, needed to strike back at the man who had kidnapped and tortured him, who had threatened Pamela Drake, who had mutilated and killed three of his shipmates and attacked the Jefferson herself, all for the sake of some unknown, twisted power game of his own.
He scratched and clawed and snapped at the wall, which refused to yield to his frenzied need to strike back at Q.
He could see it, floating there, bringing with it fury and release and the ability to avenge this wrong, to strike back at his attackers, at his betrayers.
But the Doom gave them a fortress into which they could retreat and from which they could strike back, which left them better off than the tortured thousands who went through the hell without support.