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Example sentences for: reprisals

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The more vulnerable communities on the lower plains paid a high price for these in the form of swift bloody reprisals.
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.
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.
No one would cheer these reprisals, but only the most twisted would shed their deepest tears for the Nazis and their supporters.