reprisal

Example Sentences

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When Severus arrived, he ordered reprisals against other enemies—not for the last time.

From The Wall Street Journal

After having lived through decades of war in their own country, and having escaped the possibility of reprisal and persecution there, the Afghan evacuees are now caught in another nightmare.

From BBC

For the filmmakers outside Russia, protecting Pasha and the people in the film from reprisals was uppermost in their minds.

From BBC

While staff were evacuated during alarms, operators continued to run equipment out of fear of reprisals from their managers, investigators said.

From The Wall Street Journal

“We are not going to be accomplices in something that is bad for the world…simply out of fear for somebody’s reprisals,” Sánchez said of Iran.

From The Wall Street Journal