Reprisals

The agency, the Office of Special Counsel, delivered a 39-page report to the Air Force on Monday detailing what it called reprisals against the four employees over a 17-month period in 2009 and 2010. ❋ By THE NEW YORK TIMES (2012)

Worst i’ve ever heard of in reprisals from a dealer was a bucket of paint stripper thrown on a coppers car. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

As the war dragged on, the Russians participated in reprisals, and conditions in the Tsarist Empire became frightful. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Few scholars will speak of it, possibly from fear of reprisals from the big Corporations that have been profiting from Global Warming. ❋ Unknown (2007)

If fear of reprisals is motivating their silence then they are useless capitulators who need to be replaced by principled advocates of a free press. ❋ Unknown (2006)

It's not known yet whether Sony will face legal reprisals from the US government for the military and government computers that were infected with its software. ❋ Unknown (2006)

That would invite reprisals from the government, soldiers storming into the homes of their families, reprisals from Shiite radicals, preemptive arrests of siblings to forestall further suicide bombings from a family that produced one, job loss for the parents, etc. etc. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The Iraqis feared reprisals from the United States and wanted to safeguard their captive, the defector told his interrogators. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Fear of reprisals is about the only restraint that some people are prepared to recognize. ❋ Unknown (1993)

But there were also many people who did not want to return to their own countries, either because they no longer had ties there or because they feared reprisals from the governments then in power. ❋ Unknown (1954)

The German government suspended deliveries and supported the area's population in a policy of passive resistance, which met with reprisals from the occupying authorities. ❋ Unknown (1927)

It seems like a real danger however that Google may have to cease operations in China entirely with the employees of the search giant fearing reprisals from the Chinese government. ❋ Darknet (2010)

Within hours, by early Friday morning, gunbattles spread across the city, as groups of ethnic Kyrgyz attacked minority Uzbeks in what some of them described as reprisals for attacks on their community. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Because Canada has enforced the provisions of the, still existing, and recognized, Treaty of 1818, the Congress of the United States has, in 1887, by statute, instructed the President to put in operation odious "reprisals" -- reprisals which throw the "Milan Decrees" of the first Napoleon into the shade of barbarism. ❋ Unknown (1860)

Mr. Henderson declined to elaborate on who his investors are, saying they are primarily from China and are reluctant to speak about working with him out of fear of reprisals from the Chinese government. ❋ Bobby White (2012)

We condemn in the strongest possible terms the reprisals against journalists by Shivambu. ❋ Unknown (2010)

How does Falsettoland ([Reprise]) [make me cry] so much when Falsettoland/[About time] makes me laugh every time?! ❋ Broadway Recycling Bin (2020)

[Oh My Gawd], have [you heard] the reprise of "[Rain] on Us"? It's beautiful. ❋ Blvstoff (2016)

When he [stole] my girl [oh boy] the [reprisals] ❋ Vercingtoix (2016)

I have lost all ability to feel such [emotion] ever again after [hearing] Falsettoland reprise for [the first time] ❋ Broadway Recycling Bin (2020)

The atomic reprise was first used to great effect by [Andy Kaufman], subsequently popularized by [Mike Myers] (Austin Powers) and [Seth MacFarlane] (Family Guy). ❋ Zwd26 (2007)

[Mom], [I'm sick] of [leftovers]. Don't think of them as leftovers but as a "dinner reprise". ❋ Millie Grace (2017)

"Debbie - did you notice Dr. [Leibowitz] ordered a full colorectal exam on the guy who came in for eight [stiches] across his forehead?" "Yeah, during admission, the patient called Dr. Leibowitz a money-grubbing Jew. It sounds like a reprisal procedure to me. Excuse me. Dr. Leibowitz has asked me to mix parking lot gravel with the [K-Y Jelly]." ❋ David Wright Orange Park (2008)

Dude [I left] a [floating island of reprisal] at [the Hotel]! Dude the floating island of reprisal stenched the whole room! ❋ Ascot1111 (2022)

Someone who wants to make hamilfans suffer : [sTAY ALIVE Reprise] Everyone who’s already listened to [Hamilton]: *[sobbing]* ❋ 123457- Pew Pew (2020)

❋ Anonymous (2003)