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Example sentences for: reprisal

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Whether Lamberth has succumbed to Klayman out of ideology, permissiveness, or fear of reprisal it is impossible to say.
When Cretan partisans kidnapped General Kreipe, head of the occupying forces on the island, the Germans unleashed a terrible reprisal here.
However, workers still have no voice at the plants and "fear reprisal from bosses."
The Americans burned and looted York, provoking a violent British reprisal raid on Washington.
The existing mechanisms for handling terrorist acts had been trial and punishment for acts committed by individuals; sanction, reprisal, deterrence, or war for acts by hostile governments.