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Example sentences for: reprisal

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H-2A's have attempted to obtain legal assistance anonymously due to fear of employer reprisal.
When Cretan partisans kidnapped General Kreipe, head of the occupying forces on the island, the Germans unleashed a terrible reprisal here.
(According to scholars, "letters of marque and reprisal" are, roughly speaking, the 18 th century equivalent of our small-scale military actions.)
President Clinton not only ordered precautions to protect Bush but asked about options for a reprisal against Iraq.
The Americans burned and looted York, provoking a violent British reprisal raid on Washington.