Sentence examples for immediate reprisal from inspiring English sources

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The area is heavily policed with floodlit observation posts and army checkpoints, plus settler vigilantes who routinely vandalise, and sometimes burn, Palestinian properties.In immediate reprisal for the ambush, the Israeli army razed several Palestinian houses on the site.

"The result of this action was immediate reprisal through exposure of my identity, not only to fellow staff members... but also to those who the disclosure of conduct was made," he wrote.

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The code, which was created a year ago by a fifteen-year-old computer whiz in Norway, drew immediate reprisals from the movie industry..

The attacks represented the most significant military action between the groups since a round of diplomacy among American, Iraqi and Turkish officials this month, but there were no immediate reprisals.

Under the False Claims Act (FCA), a federal law revamped in the 1980s primarily to clamp down on fraud by defence contractors, whistleblowers can file a lawsuit without a defendant's knowledge, until the DOJ has decided whether to join the case.This veil of secrecy may encourage employees of a guilty company to come forward without fear of immediate reprisals.

The code, which was created a year ago by a fifteen-year-old computer whiz in Norway, drew immediate reprisals from the movie industry.. In the midst of the court case, Wecker, a twenty-two-year-old college student and computer programmer in Salt Lake City, came up with the idea to compose, record, and upload "Descramble," a seven-and-a-half-minute recitation of the code.

As the army continues its sustained assault with little fear of immediate international reprisal, and fighters enter the country to join an increasingly radicalised opposition, the high cost of the war on Syria's people is set to rise.

The stakes are much higher this time as failure to work together now, or to provide genuine solutions to the myriad problems we face, may not yield such immediate electoral reprisals for either congress or the president, but will probably cause more serious longer term problems for the Democratic Party.

But there was no immediate sign of reprisal.

But that effect is difficult to distinguish from the industry's broader decline.The biggest immediate risk Argentina faces is reprisals from abroad.

Human rights groups said it was in breach of the Geneva conventions which bar attacks on targets of no immediate military value and on reprisals against civilians.

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