Sentence examples for direct reprisal from inspiring English sources
These expulsions are a direct reprisal against groups suspected of being involved with the I.C.C. as well as against governments that support the indictment of President al-Bashir.
The attack appeared to be a direct reprisal for the army's current offensive against militants in the rugged tribal region of South Waziristan.
Of the 366 journalists who have been killed in the last decade, 60 of them were killed in crossfire and 277 were murdered in direct reprisal for their work, according to the committee.
Privately, officials involved in the confirmation process called the spate of attacks on Mr. Lew politically motivated, arguing that the Cayman Islands criticisms are a direct reprisal for attacks leveled at Mitt Romney during the presidential campaign for his offshore bank accounts.
By challenging the Taliban movement at the core of its legitimacy -- its claim as a religious authority -- the Ulema-u-Shura has drawn direct reprisals against its members.
In his book Crete: The Battle and the Resistance (1991), Antony Beevor went to some lengths to establish with the help of German documentation that no direct reprisals took place.
Even if a strike against Pyongyang didn't result in direct reprisals from North Korea, it could spark an accidental war.
Because of his words, the Israelis refrained from a direct military reprisal.
But a senior Israeli military official, noting that Mr. Arafat's public statement had the potential to be very significant, said that Israel would hold off on a direct military reprisal against Palestinian Authority targets to give the Palestinian leader time to follow through.
Equally angry Israelis demanded direct military reprisals for the Friday carnage, and complained that Palestinian security forces are not jailing militants known to have planned similar attacks.
The ferocity of the recent violence and reprisal attacks directed at civilians has forced the UN Security council to review its mandate in South Sudan.
