The phrase "as reprisals" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe actions taken in response to perceived wrongs or injustices, often in a retaliatory context.
Example: "The government implemented new sanctions as reprisals for the hostile actions taken by the neighboring country."
Alternatives: "in retaliation" or "as retaliation".
They also said they feared new attacks as reprisals for his arrest.
Feuds and murders rent the tribe as reprisals were made on those who had signed the Treaty of New Echota.
In all of last year, seven journalists were killed, at least three as reprisals for their work, the committee said.
In 1993 more than 250 people died in a series of bomb attacks, seen as reprisals for the demolition by Hindu fanatics of the mosque at Ayodhya.
(The strikes were envisioned as reprisals for the presence of Kenyan and Ugandan troops in the peacekeeping force sent into Somalia by the African Union).
Amnesty International and doctors on the ground said the timing of the attacks indicated they may be used as reprisals against civilians in areas where rebels make military gains.
But even he openly admits that further attacks are likely, as are reprisals against the nation's new measures.
As reprisal attacks mounted after the church bombings, the police said that about 1,000 Muslims sought refuge at police quarters in Kaduna.
Islamic Jihad claimed the attack as reprisal for Israel's recent killing and capture of several of its leaders and the Israeli government's decision to extend the construction of its "security wall" deep into the occupied West Bank.
Last Sunday, rockets fired by unknown attackers hit the nearby neighborhood of Chiah, injuring four people, in what was widely viewed as reprisal for Hezbollah's intervention in Qusayr.
During the two weeks of Israel's bombardment of Gaza as reprisal for rockets launched from Gaza by Hamas, the militant Islamist group, Mr. Obama disappointed many commentators in the Muslim world by declining to condemn the Israeli operation.
