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Example sentences for: reprisal

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However, workers still have no voice at the plants and "fear reprisal from bosses."
Edward was furious, and his reprisal was swift and bloody.
Few passages in the Constitution have been more abused than Article 1, Section 8.11, which gives Congress sole power "to declare war [and] grant letters of marque and reprisal."
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.
When Cretan partisans kidnapped General Kreipe, head of the occupying forces on the island, the Germans unleashed a terrible reprisal here.