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reprisal
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    In 2001, the widely scattered threats and acts of reprisal against Muslim and Arab Americans had no encouragement from national or local media.†  (source)
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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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    His fear of reprisal against his only remaining family crippled him.†  (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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    But a child's ability for reprisal is infinite, and can last a lifetime.†  (source)
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    There were no reprisals.†  (source)
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    Veretenniki had been raided in reprisal for withholding food supplies.†  (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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    One night he bombarded Riohacha from a schooner and the garrison dragged out of bed and shot the fourteen best-known Liberals in the town as a reprisal.†  (source)
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    The incident was one which, in those days, some two years before the great Revolution, was of almost daily occurrence in France; incidents of that type, in fact, led to bloody reprisals, which a few years later sent most of those haughty heads to the guillotine.†  (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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