reprisal in English
three youths died in the reprisals that followed
Use "reprisal" in a sentence
1. She said reprisal only breeds reprisal
2. People were shot in reprisal.
3. The assassination was in reprisal for invasion.
4. Restitution for reprisal action can be ordered by a tribunal in a finding that reprisal took place.
5. They bombed civilian targets in reprisal.
6. Civilian targets were bombed in reprisal.
7. They didn't tell the police for fear of reprisal .
8. Civilian targets were bombed in reprisal ( for the raid ).
9. There is no political alternative but a big reprisal.
10. 7 A reprisal for her unwillingness to co-operate last night?
11. We self - censor our thoughts for fear of reprisal.
12. A reprisal for her unwillingness to co-operate last night?
13. This was widely viewed as a reprisal for the reporting of Gough.
14. It could be a reprisal for the contraband found this morning.
15. The attack was in reprisal for the kidnapping of their leaders.
16. They shot ten hostages in reprisal for the assassination of their leader.
17. Mr. Bush makes thinly veiled threat of reprisal against his backers in Afghanistan.
18. His murder was a reprisal for an injury to a rival gang member.
19. They bombed the enemy villages in reprisal for the killing some of their own troops.
20. They promised that individuals could live freely without fear of reprisal from the military.
21. His murder was reprisal for injury to some one in a rival gang.
22. Rumour had it ( that ) he was killed in a reprisal raid in the local area.
23. Synonyms for Countermove include counterattack, counteroffensive, counterstrike, counterassault, counteraction, counterblow, reciprocation, reprisal, retribution and
24. A dozen hostages were shot in reprisal for the killing of an army officer.
25. Individuals can express their opinions, orally and in writing, without fear of reprisal or punishment.
26. 13 synonyms for Counterattack: counteraction, counterblow, reciprocation, reprisal, requital, retaliation, retribution, revenge, tit for tat, vengeance
27. Attack and reprisal-increasingly barbaric and brutal by turn-have marked the conflict since then.
28. They were afraid of reprisal because the Arabs had just ambushed a relief convoy at Kubri.
29. As we have argued above, since all nuclear weapons are indiscriminate and inhumane, their use even in reprisal is illegal.
30. That piercing gaze threatened immediate reprisal, the tough, unyielding stance of his hard body blocked her path and intimidated her.
31. 20: Lt. Col. Karl Hotz, the German commander in Nantes, is killed by Resistance; 50 hostages are shot in reprisal.
32. 30 The decision takes immediate effect and will remove for many workers the threat of reprisal from aggrieved party officials.
33. Given the power of the managerial hierarchy to dispense or withhold rewards, open acts of defiance expose individuals to reprisal.
34. Between 1953 and 19 the United States could have effectively destroyed the Soviet Union with little likelihood of serious reprisal.
35. In the distance smoke rose over the old city, where Hindu mobs were massacring Sikhs in reprisal for Indira's assassination.
36. Again, that's a nation-state who is executing those attacks, and they're doing that as a semi-anonymous way of reprisal.
37. 27 As we have argued above, since all nuclear weapons are indiscriminate and inhumane, their use even in reprisal is illegal.
38. Theirs is a heteronomous morality: they have few rules of their own, but out of fear of reprisal, may follow the rules of others.
39. In reprisal, the Algonkins killed the slayer; whereupon the Hurons, further insulted by the death of one of their own people, attacked the Algonkins, and Iroquet was wounded by two arrow shots
40. Definition of Coercion The broad definition of Coercion is "the use of express or implied threats of violence or reprisal (as discharge from employment) or other intimidating behavior that puts a person in immediate fear of the consequences in order to …
41. Title In Congress, April 3, 1776 : Resolved, that every person intending to set forth and fit out a private ship or vessel of war, and applying for a commission or letters of marque and reprisal for that purpose, shall produce a writing, subscribed by him, containing the name, and tonnage or Burthen of the ship or vessel, the number of her guns, with their weight of metal