Sentence examples for reprisal from inspiring English sources

This might be viewed simply as a reprisal for Saudi participation in the US-led bombing campaign against Isis, but Isis has also been seeking to extend the current conflict in Syria and Iraq into Saudi territory.

He recounts joining a reprisal party in the mid-1860s, while mayor, for the killers of a shepherd: "They got on top of a big mound & defied us & smacked their buttocks at us & hurled large stones down on us, & hid themselves behind large trees and huge rocks but some of them paid dearly for their bravado.

My research about early Canberra led me to stories of violence against the Aboriginal people of the Limestone Plains: the Aboriginal people speared the stock; the shepherds, convict workers and the settler masters "took" and raped the women, leading to reprisal and counter-reprisal.

The almost universal view among Irish nationalists was that the killings were a deliberate reprisal against unarmed civilians for the assassinations of the intelligence officers earlier in the day.

Liz and her family have been forced into hiding because of reprisal attacks and threats from the families of the men.

Closer to my home in Canberra the Indigenous people of the district – the Walgalu-speaking Ngambri and Ngurmal, the Wallabalooa and the Cookmai of the Ngunnawal language group – can still tell you all about the pioneering families whose properties are stained with Indigenous blood and stories of violent reprisal and murder.

After his reprisal of the Smokey films, he directed one further TV movie, Hostage Hotel (1999), starring Reynolds.

By rights his latest movie should count as the icing on the cake, in that it's about a freed slave on a mission of reprisal.

Nothing can be done with a pencil or a keyboard that warrants a reprisal with a Kalashnikov.This attack was more insidious than a random fusillade on a street or train.

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 PA had arrested Mr Saadat in January on the basis of Israeli charges that he had masterminded the PFLP's assassination of an Israeli cabinet minister, Rahavam Zeevi, last year (itself a reprisal for Israel's assassination in August of the former PFLP leader, Abu Ali Mustafa).