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    reprisal


    1. No one dared ask any questions as they feared the reprisal that was bound to follow, but each started to feel good about themselves


    2. flaunt the laws of our land without fear of reprisal is of no immediate concern to some politicians entrusted with the welfare and security of its citizens


    3. The formal passage of this egregious bill, that ties ―guest‖ worker programs with proposed amnesty for ―resident‖ aliens, would further encourage potential lawbreakers, who, not unlike their predecessors, would feel emboldened to enter our country illegally without fear of (legal) reprisal


    4. They would leave the horse and cart alone, for fear of reprisal


    5. As reprisal are part of gangland culture, and in keeping with the way things are done in South London


    6. So the music stopped, the seat was occupied and those who could not renew their grasp upon it were ground underfoot in such a convincing manner that those who had quickly occupied it would feel secure enough to dispose of any competing heirs without fear of reprisal


    7. It would appear that indulgences were given to those who had previously engaged in less than holy actions, in order to sanctify them before engaging in the pope’s Holy War of reprisal


    8. The evidence which I had that the officials who took the “adverse personnel action” against me in reprisal because I made the protected communications was the purported unanimous vote to fire me by the officials who were the subjects of my investigations and/or allegations in the attachments that I supplied to the three IGs


    9. You’re wrong in thinking that raw power has anything to do with it, for as I sit here I don’t have enough personal magic power to even cast a spark, let alone light a candle, nor any physical strength at all, yet I could kill you and everyone here at any moment I chose, without fear of reprisal


    10. information as a reprisal in some future dispute between them

    11. Her heart was the habitation of sorrow that night, and fear of a reprisal of said persecution the next day made her weary concerning school in the morning


    12. The fact of War is that sometimes gossip and rumours is often taken as reality and the rumours began to circulate that the German Commander Sepp Dietrich had been murdered by the British and the reprisal killings began, the news that about 80 British soldiers of the Warwickshire Regiment had been slaughtered around Wormhoudt was greeted with joy and elation in the German ranks


    13. The Bard had picked the right city to annihilate for disabling industry but had picked the wrong city for reprisal


    14. For her part, Fernanda interpreted the disappearance as a reprisal by the invisible doctors and she sewed a pocket of casing to the inside of her camisole where she kept the new pessaries that her son sent her


    15. 'Gomorrah' was a reprisal, in part, for the bombing, by the Luftwaffe of urban targets - most infamously Coventry where 380 died and the 13,339 killed during the Blitz on London, in September and October 1940


    16. sparked a round of reprisal talks


    17. However, a dramatic event intervened; Hitler had forbidden terror bombing on civilians but when a German formation got lost and jettisoned their bombs over London, Churchill ordered a reprisal raid on Berlin


    18. Titus and Barnabas were still sitting only feet away and heard every word spoken, and it was plain to see that Barnabas too felt the impact of this reprimand, for his head hung low of the reprisal just heard


    19. After receiving the false confessions to justify the murderous rampage, Stalin went back on his word and had the families of the accused executed as well to limit the possibility of reprisal


    20. They could also possibly take hostages as a reprisal measure, something they were said to often do

    21. That had left Mobutu to wonder and worry about possible reprisal measures from the Spacers League but, since all the space surveillance radars of the Southern Federation had been destroyed in the past war, he had no way to know about the movement of Spacers’ spaceships


    22. doors, blasting open overtly humble lives without fear of reprisal


    23. I accepted the reprisal as it provided an excuse for a wet face


    24. When asked why she could not leave him in spite of the repeated attacks, her primary reason was to have a complete family and the fear of reprisal both from in-laws and from own parents if she tried to leave their abode


    25. The male slaves didn’t rebel out of fear that their wives and children would be slaughtered in reprisal


    26. guesthouse, their husbands’ reprisal should prove a grand spectacle


    27. To the credit of the man, he did not cower at the fate that played out in all its apocalyptic reprisal before him


    28. Today military pilots can drop bombs killing thousands, even hundreds of thousands of living people and never have to ‘worry’ about any reprisal, any causal effect of their actions


    29. Fritz had spent the summer planning his reprisal


    30. These forces, both women and men, create a fear of reprisal, retained far into

    31. Whichever of the two terms I fulfill, there shall be no reprisal against me; and God is witness over what we say


    32. Operation Reprisal is a go, after my briefing, you’ll be on your way so pay attention


    33. It was a heavy loss with the tally of lost agents on Operation Reprisal now five, with every chance the number could increase further


    34. team’s failure in their last operation to date; Operation Reprisal


    35. Operation Reprisal came about because of what happened on another operation, codename Safeguard


    36. Now, let’s move on to Operation Reprisal please


    37. He informed us that Operation Reprisal was a go operation and that G


    38. He had spent the last hour searching through every record that had been stored for Operation Reprisal


    39. ‘Following our short recess, the Inquiry Committee for Operation Reprisal has now reached our final recommendations


    40. The provision about granting letters of marque and reprisal was important in the past, when private United States citizens actually commanded ships that were prepared for battle and sometimes were able to capture enemy vessels

    41. Some believed it, but kept silent for fear of reprisal


    42. A few days before, he might have met with reprisal, but today, there was no such spirit


    43. And, for that matter, as a belated reprisal for the Charisian prisoners who were sent to Zion for Punishment year before last


    44. This immediately put her on the defensive, and with one of those sudden impulses of reprisal to which she was liable she gave him a little push from her


    45. Perhaps Fear of Reprisal at the Landlord’s Hands banish’d her from our Bed, or perhaps ’twas some other Reason unguess’d at then


    46. Gavroche disdainfully contented himself, by way of reprisal, with elevating the tip of his nose with his thumb and opening his hand wide


    47. Williams said he had been decidedly in favor of issuing letters of marque and reprisal at once; he believed it would have cut off all that fungus matter now deteriorating the body politic—for the people of New England were as patriotic as any, and when the choice was between their own and a foreign country, they would cling to their own


    48. Under this conviction, I proposed a resolution limiting the duration of the embargo, and authorizing, at the same time, the issuing of letters of marque and reprisal


    49. I, who voted for the motion going to give power to the President of the United States to issue letters of marque and reprisal against that nation which persevered in its edicts after the other had withdrawn them, am not willing, on the passage of this bill, to say we, as by it you admit instead of continuing the exclusion against armed vessels, where, instead of a recession, injuries have rather been added


    50. This decree purports to be an act of reprisal on this country, and for what cause? Not for any act of hostility by us; not for any seizures or confiscations of French vessels or French property under the authority, or within the limits of this Government





















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    Synonyms for "reprisal"

    reprisal retribution retaliation requital vengeance

    "reprisal" definitions

    a retaliatory action against an enemy in wartime