Sentence examples for massive reprisals from inspiring English sources

The Germans would have taken massive reprisals - as indeed they did at places like Oradour-sur-Glane (a village where hundreds of civilians were massacred on 10 June)," he says.

Massive reprisals followed.

On June 10 , 1942 it was "liquidated" by German armed forces as part of a massive reprisal for the assassination by Czech underground fighters of Reinhard Heydrich ("Heydrich the Hangman"), deputy leader of the SS.

They argued that a suicide bombing that claimed many Israeli lives would inevitably lead to a massive Israeli reprisal.

But massive retribution and reprisals, including an Iraq-style de-Baathification process, should be avoided.

Among those killed was prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr, whose death prompted massive protest and a reprisal attack on the Saudi embassy in Iran.

The result was a massive outpouring of refugees and terrorist reprisals across the country.

"The takeover in early June by ISIS of Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, and other towns and villages in north-western Iraq has resulted in a dramatic resurgence of sectarian tensions and the massive displacement of communities fearing sectarian attacks and reprisals," read the report.

An aide to Governor Chris Christie and an appointee at the Port Authority stand accused of closing lanes on the George Washington Bridge, for four days in September of 2013, to orchestrate a massive traffic jam as a form of political reprisal.

"Morale right now is the lowest it has ever been since I've been in the league," said one longtime game official, who like others spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals from the N.F.L. "There is just massive confusion right now.

For Schneemann, the most striking element of the exhibition's reprisal was the choice to paint the massive gallery space entirely black.