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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)
  • Very soon the first armed reprisals began in the ghetto, first of all against the corrupt elements among ourselves.†   (source)
  • At the end of the hearing, Palmgren intimated that compulsory institutionalisation was in all probability not only contrary to Parliament's decisions in similar situations, but in this particular case it might in addition be the subject of political and media reprisals.†   (source)
  • In 2001, the widely scattered threats and acts of reprisal against Muslim and Arab Americans had no encouragement from national or local media.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • They begged us not to take vengeance against the children, to put aside reprisals.†   (source)
  • After my parents' visit to America I could telephone them in China and write to them, freely, without fear of reprisal, and I could send them money too.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • But a child's ability for reprisal is infinite, and can last a lifetime.†   (source)
  • Epernon reeks of a Jackal reprisal.†   (source)
  • In less than six months, in May 1774, in reprisal, the British closed the port of Boston, the worst blow to the city in its history.†   (source)
  • "There must be no reprisals," insisted Templeton.†   (source)
  • Small attacks by Tutsis in exile led to larger and larger reprisals by the new Hutu authorities.†   (source)
  • She felt suddenly certain that it came from something deeper than his fear of bureaucratic reprisal, that the reprisal was the only identification of it which he would permit himself to know, a reassuring identification which had a semblance of rationality and hid his true motive.†   (source)
  • There is nothing, except venomous reprisals, that cravens who fled their freshman year could cast on the history of the Institute.†   (source)
  • Letters of reprisal were granted and war started.†   (source)
  • The grim news that he bore would make him vulnerable to their bullying tactics and often angry reprisals.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • An idea, when violated, cannot make reprisals.†   (source)
  • Our reprisals continue.†   (source)
  • I knew that he had no prejudices, but I nevertheless did not want to involve him in any way, since reprisals might be taken against him by bigots or by his associates, who might resent his role as my host once my story became known.†   (source)
  • Lying there, I realized that as a boy my father had never punished me severely except once—and then only because of a crime for which I sublimely deserved reprisal.†   (source)
  • I will repeat only one admonishment from a native of Maine, and I will not put a name to that person for fear of reprisal.†   (source)
  • "Lord of Destruction," he said, "I understand that you already seek reprisal against those here in the City who mark the words of Siddhartha with more than a smirk of dismissal."†   (source)
  • Veretenniki had been raided in reprisal for withholding food supplies.†   (source)
  • The Taft-Hartley Labor Management Relations Act could not have gained him many votes in industrialized Ohio, for those who endorsed its curbs on union activity were already Taft supporters; but it brought furious anti-Taft reprisals during the 1950 Senate campaign by the unions in Ohio, and it nourished the belief that Taft could not win a Presidential contest, a belief which affected his chances for the nomination in 1952.†   (source)
  • In addition, if mass action were successfully organized, and mass reprisals taken, we felt that sympathy for our cause would be roused in other countries, and that greater pressure would be brought to bear on the South African Government.†   (source)
  • Long-lost cousin, ain't you!" she cried at me, and gave me the same kiss she had given Kate-a sort of reprisal-kiss.†   (source)
  • A few days before, he might have met with reprisal, but today, there was no such spirit.†   (source)
  • Reprisals for what they call 'terrorist attacks' are getting more and more extreme.†   (source)
  • The unfortunate men were to be executed immediately outside the city in reprisal.†   (source)
  • "Opportunist actions" that would provoke Nazi reprisals should be avoided.†   (source)
  • We knew more or less what reprisals the Germans were planning by then.†   (source)
  • Are you saying we should go to ground and do nothing in case the Germans take reprisals?†   (source)
  • The threats, spoken and unspoken, about reprisals against those who supported me increased each day.†   (source)
  • Certainly many who had a sense of justice did not dare show it for fear of reprisals.†   (source)
  • Visions of reprisal spurred her on.†   (source)
  • From that moment on, artists and sculptors, fearing reprisals if they were not true to the Gospels, began depicting Moses with horns.†   (source)
  • There will be no reprisals.†   (source)
  • Franchisees are sometimes afraid to criticize their chains in public, fearing reprisals such as the denial of additional restaurants, the refusal to renew a franchise contract at the end of its twenty-year term, or the immediate termination of an existing contract.†   (source)
  • There will be reprisals.†   (source)
  • Did they draw straws, or did they think Groleo the least valuable to us, the least likely to provoke reprisal? the knight asked himself …. but it was easier to pose that question than to answer it.†   (source)
  • They resulted in reprisals.†   (source)
  • This was much more than a reprisal.†   (source)
  • When, under Jefferson, John Quincy was suddenly replaced, Abigail had taken it as an act of personal reprisal by Jefferson himself, which it was not, as he managed now to convince her.†   (source)
  • The rights of other nations might be infringed by their decisions, giving reasons for reprisal and war.†   (source)
  • Reprisals?†   (source)
  • For her part, Fernanda interpreted the disappearance as a reprisal by the invisible doctors and she sewed a pocket of casing to the inside of her camisole where she kept the new pessaries that her son sent her.†   (source)
  • In some cases they killed the civilian population themselves, and in some cases they provoked reprisals against the Tutsi.†   (source)
  • No State shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any title of nobility.†   (source)
  • He rode the trains very infrequently, for there was a growing anger against tramps, based on the angry violence of the I.W.W. and aggravated by the fierce reprisals against them.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Vanbruuker-Brown was talking again: "Our reprisal was swift, and, from the reports that have reached this command post, effective.†   (source)
  • The chopped-off arm and leg were tied! in terrible bleeding chunks onto his back with a small wooden board attached to them; a long inscription on it said, with many words of abuse, that the atrocity was in reprisal for similar atrocities perpetrated by such and such a Red unit-a unit that, had no connection with the Forest Brotherhood.†   (source)
  • …for himself was more important to him than his popularity with others—because his desire to win or maintain a reputation for integrity and courage was stronger than his desire to maintain his office—because his conscience, his personal standard of ethics, his integrity or morality, call it what you will—was strongerthan the pressures of public disapproval—because his faith that his course was the best one, and would ultimately be vindicated, outweighed his fear of public reprisal.†   (source)
  • The disappearance of such a scarce and valued instrument as a radio would be a matter of appalling gravity, inviting the possibility of reprisal, punishment, torture, even random killing.†   (source)
  • I thought honestly and sincerely that with rare exception a man could say what he wished without fear of reprisal, especially a man with a newspaper who was seeking to expand his commercial and unhappy soul in a direction that was, for a rare change, decent and honest.†   (source)
  • Heaped on top of the economic reprisals and the dangers of physical reprisal was perhaps the most damaging reprisal of all—the deliberate character assassination that sprang into play the moment a man suggested that there ought to be equality among citizens, and this in a land where we claim equality as a first principle.†   (source)
  • Police cars, for example, would simply get behind you and trail you so that you did not dare call on the person you intended to see for fear he would receive reprisals later.†   (source)
  • They also keep a close eye on possible economic reprisals from the Councils and the Klans, plus other superpatriotic groups who bring pressures to bear on the newspapers' advertisers.†   (source)
  • Heaped on top of the economic reprisals and the dangers of physical reprisal was perhaps the most damaging reprisal of all—the deliberate character assassination that sprang into play the moment a man suggested that there ought to be equality among citizens, and this in a land where we claim equality as a first principle.†   (source)
  • He killed him as a reprisal, out of revenge because it was our family that had caught him with the Queen.†   (source)
  • As if by way of reprisal five or six shots from the opposite house knocked more splinters off the shutter.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • The only ways in which I felt that my feelings could go outward without fear of rude rebuff or searing reprisal was in writing or reading, and to me they were ways of living.†   (source)
  • There were days when I was acutely hungry for the incessant analy-ses that went on among the comrades, but whenever I heard news of the party's inner life, it was of charges and countercharges, reprisals and counterreprisals.†   (source)
  • He was allowed to snarl "Oh, let me alone!" without reprisals.†   (source)
  • What has happened is quite natural, and in conformity with the law of reprisals.†   (source)
  • This immediately put her on the defensive, and with one of those sudden impulses of reprisal to which she was liable she gave him a little push from her.†   (source)
  • But White Fang's reprisals did not cease, even when the young dogs had learned thoroughly that they must stay together.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • A noble could kill a noble without expense, as far as the law was concerned, but reprisals in kind were to be expected.†   (source)
  • Her figure in the midst of the huge enclosure, the unusual plainness of her dress, her attitude of hope and appeal, so strongly revived in his soul the memory of another ill-used woman who had stood there and thus in bygone days, and had now passed away into her rest, that he was unmanned, and his heart smote him for having attempted reprisals on one of a sex so weak.†   (source)
  • Ivan Jakovlevitch after taking a pinch of snuff would then, by way of reprisals, set to work to soap him on the cheek, the upper lip, behind the ears, on the chin, and everywhere.†   (source)
  • By command of their father, the tents were thrown into the vehicles, as a sort of reprisal for the want of faith in their late ally, and then the train left the spot, in its usual listless and sluggish order.†   (source)
  • Gavroche disdainfully contented himself, by way of reprisal, with elevating the tip of his nose with his thumb and opening his hand wide.†   (source)
  • No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque or Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.†   (source)
  • It is true that the enemies of the cardinal said that it was he himself who set these bungling assassins to work, in order to have, if wanted, the right of using reprisals; but we must not believe everything ministers say, nor everything their enemies say.†   (source)
  • They would smouch provisions from the pantry whenever they got a chance; or a brass thimble, or a cake of wax, or an emery bag, or a paper of needles, or a silver spoon, or a dollar bill, or small articles of clothing, or any other property of light value; and so far were they from considering such reprisals sinful, that they would go to church and shout and pray the loudest and sincerest with their plunder in their pockets.†   (source)
  • Nor am I prepared to accept the verdict of the medical gentlemen who would compulsorily sanitate and register Mrs Warren, whilst leaving Mrs Warren's patrons, especially her military patrons, free to destroy her health and anybody else's without fear of reprisals.†   (source)
  • But on the 26th, appeased with gifts and seeing that they didn't need to fear any reprisals, the natives led the chief officer, Mr. Jacquinot, to the site of the shipwreck.†   (source)
  • Mother Hucheloup did not appear to understand very clearly the benefit which she was to derive from these reprisals made on her account.†   (source)
  • …Writings and Discoveries; To constitute Tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court; To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations; To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two years; To provide and maintain a Navy; To make Rules for the Government and…†   (source)
  • She had long been in the habit of resorting to it, under the pressure of such circumstances as were palpably beyond human redress, though her spirit and resolution rarely needed support under those that admitted of reparation through any of the ordinary means of reprisal.†   (source)
  • Nothing can be more melancholy than these reprisals in painting, by a pack of cards, in the presence of stakes for the roasting of smugglers and of the cauldron for the boiling of counterfeiters.†   (source)
  • …the inoffensive tree-pruner of Faverolles, the formidable convict of Toulon, had become capable, thanks to the manner in which the galleys had moulded him, of two sorts of evil action: firstly, of evil action which was rapid, unpremeditated, dashing, entirely instinctive, in the nature of reprisals for the evil which he had undergone; secondly, of evil action which was serious, grave, consciously argued out and premeditated, with the false ideas which such a misfortune can furnish.†   (source)
  • I will not, by giving it up, lose my right of some time or other making reprisals on my adversaries.†   (source)
  • No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.†   (source)
  • …Writings and Discoveries; To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court; To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations; To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; To provide and maintain a Navy; To make Rules for the Government and…†   (source)
  • I am on fire To hear this rich reprisal is so nigh, And yet not ours.†   (source)
  • The infractions of these regulations, on one side, the efforts to prevent and repel them, on the other, would naturally lead to outrages, and these to reprisals and wars.†   (source)
  • There would of course be always danger that the rights of other nations might be infringed by their decisions, so as to afford occasions of reprisal and war.†   (source)
  • No State shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make any thing but gold and silver a legal tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex-post-facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts; or grant any title of nobility.†   (source)
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