Sentence examples for be reprisal from inspiring English sources

He said that many Afghans had been killed during the autumn, noting that "whenever territory changes hands, there tend to be reprisal killings".

The police force had feared that there would be reprisal shootings after the attack involving six gunmen on the Regency hotel on Swords Road last Friday afternoon.

But if the answer to the Palestinian achievement will be reprisal, or threats thereof, or even vague promises, then the Palestinian Authority will pursue a strategy of joining treaties and agencies one after the other, as it is required to do in response to Israeli and American measures.

Would there be reprisals?

Many of these killings appear to be reprisals following attacks.

I am hoping there won't be reprisals.

The authorities are particularly concerned because Iran — one of Mr. Assad's closest allies — has said there will be reprisals against Israel if the United States attacks Syria.

But Israeli officials, warning that there would be reprisals, put the onus for Saturday's violence entirely on Mr. Arafat and his Palestinian Authority.

For example, after attacks in Sydney raised fears there would be reprisals against members of the Muslim community, thousands of people tweeted #illridewithyou in solidarity.

A culture of fear surrounding the so-called Gulenists, however exaggerated, is so endemic that few here will talk openly about them on the telephone, fearing that their conversations are being recorded and that there will be reprisals.

And by drawing Christians, Druse, Shiites and Alawites into the civil war on an explicitly sectarian basis, the Syrian government has all but guaranteed that there will be reprisals against these communities if Mr. Assad falls.