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Example sentences for: reprisals

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Presidents have euphemized away the seizure of congressional authority, minimizing their uses of force as "surgical strikes," "police actions," or "immediate reprisals."
He suggested threatening reprisals against the Taliban in Afghanistan in the event of any attacks on U.S. interests, anywhere, by Bin Ladin.
But the German army wreaked brutal reprisals on the civilians.
Back in Kosovo, the Guardian of London reported Wednesday that returning ethnic Albanians are targeting gypsies for reprisals.
The men and women of this region have been some of the most stalwart against Crete’s enemies, and subject to some of their worst reprisals.