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reprisal
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    You decide whether it would be wise to adopt a strategy that would invite reprisals.†  (source)
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    Paul's mother had for a long time protected her little boy from the reprisals against their people.†  (source)
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    And so while the others partook of the buffet, courtesy of an Officeapproved caterer in Tel Aviv, he spoke of his childhood in the valley—of the Arab raids from the hills of the West Bank, of the Israeli reprisals, of the Six-Day War, which took his father, of the Yom Kippur War, which took his belief that Israel was invulnerable.†  (source)
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    Security has been tightening because of Kabul's support of Bush's war in Iraq and expected reprisals from al-Qaeda.†  (source)
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    The unfortunate men were to be executed immediately outside the city in reprisal.†  (source)
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    There were no reprisals.†  (source)
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    His fear of reprisal against his only remaining family crippled him.†  (source)
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    On the contrary, war hysteria is continuous and universal in all countries, and such acts as raping, looting, the slaughter of children, the reduction of whole populations to slavery, and reprisals against prisoners which extend even to boiling and burying alive, are looked upon as normal, and, when they are committed by one's own side and not by the enemy, meritorious.†  (source)
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    But a child's ability for reprisal is infinite, and can last a lifetime.†  (source)
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    They begged us not to take vengeance against the children, to put aside reprisals.†  (source)
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    Epernon reeks of a Jackal reprisal.†  (source)
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    An idea, when violated, cannot make reprisals.†  (source)
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    Think of Hitler shiploading people into Poland or Germany proper to work for nothing in fields and factories far from home and children—stealing food from conquered people— captive labor—shooting hundreds of people in reprisal for one.†  (source)
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