The one exception was Abbott's remark when he urged Indonesia to "reciprocate" for Australian aid by sparing the lives of Chan and Sukumaran.
Having freed eastern Europe and dissolved the Warsaw Pact, the Soviet leadership trusted that the west would reciprocate by respecting Russian interests, and was repeatedly reassured by western leaders in this respect.
But he gave no indication of loyalist paramilitaries making a similar move, saying he had no evidence that the UVF or Red Hand Commando were ready to reciprocate in kind.
The United States and the EU between them instigated no fewer than 559 such actions between 1995 and 2002.Poor countries are right to demand cuts in rich-country tariffs and the lifting of their quotas, but should they reciprocate?
Other countries could reciprocate by refusing to bail out the British arms of their banks.
The ants reciprocate by stinging anything from other insects to cattle that dares try to eat the acacia's leaves.
If you're visiting at another's invitation, you should let your host pay and offer to reciprocate when they're in your city.
Officials hope that the judges will reciprocate by throwing out legal challenges to the economic programme.
If they are to keep their privileges beyond 2007, these countries will have to reciprocate, cutting their tariffs on "substantially all" EU imports (which might in practice mean only two-thirds for some countries) over a "reasonable" period (which might be 12 years or more).In this section Dead, or just resting?
The convention was initiated by the Americans, who argued that, although their courts generally enforce the rulings of foreign courts, other countries do not always reciprocate.
It is odd indeed that one group of Americans can now travel freely to Cuba while the majority cannot.Before doing more Mr Obama wants Cuba to reciprocate by, for example, freeing political prisoners.
