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How to use reprisal in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word reprisal? Here are some examples.

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For some, Tuesday's attack marks a single reprisal for more than a decade of attacks that have gone unavenged.
You see that I have no need to hide my name out of shame or some revolting paltry yellow-bellied fear of reprisal from my employers.
We have the best political system in the world because it allows us to voice our criticisms without fear of reprisal.
He was driven to use reprisal raids, the razzias that had traditionally formed part of warfare in North Africa.
Looting the tawdry possessions of the African villagers was both a reprisal and a reward.
The threat of a reprisal strike was broadcast by the country's state-run radio, and monitored in Beijing.
Sometimes overzealousness, greed, avarice, or fear of reprisal can affect human judgment.
The attack was allegedly meant to serve as a reprisal for American participation in Operation Restore Hope in Somalia.
In reprisal, French forces had destroyed the country's civilian and military fleets and had left dozens dead and thousands wounded.
That being the case, the Act of initiating a reprisal should be subject to summary conviction fines.
Then reprisal killings took over in the midnight hours of March 7 2010 attacking three rural communities.
He said that his mother was killed in reprisal for his mujahideen activities.
In reprisal, more than a thousand Muslims were killed, while the police stood by.
The Officer also found that the employer had terminated the employee in reprisal for exercising his rights under the Act.
Had the author reported these crimes to the authorities, his children would have been killed in reprisal.
The Tribunal may also consider ordering disciplinary action against those who have engaged in reprisal.
I submit there are few who vote out of fear of reprisal or even due to direct orders.
He also finds an opportunity for killing Claudius almost unpremeditatedly, spontaneously, as an act of reprisal for all that Claudius has done.
The more one retaliates against suicide bombings, the more it legitimizes suicide bombing as a method of terrorist attack, of reprisal.
Second are migrant workers from western Kenya, who have been chased out of their homes by reprisal attacks.
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Will you let me plan the reprisal attack as well as arrange to get you out?
They, in reprisal, sacked his castle of Crichton, and nearly caught him.
Such hideous misgovernment as generations of your countrymen had suffered was logically bound to bring its own reprisal.
She shall, in time of war, grant no letters of marque and reprisal.
Thus, for the government it is a military offensive in North Waziristan and for the Taliban, the unlashing of reprisal attacks, that will be their ultimate bargaining chips.
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