On the day of this entry the Germans had commandeered wine at Berneau, and were drunk when they took reprisals for shots their victims were never proved to have fired.
The prevailing view was that the exercise of such reprisals by the President would virtually mean nonintercourse in trade and involve serious international complications.
The Administration held by its previous determination not to resort to reprisals in its treatment of Germans nor to lose its head in the periodic waves of spy fever which spread throughout the country.
This peculiar and most sanguinary law of reprisals has always been defended by the common military sophism, that it shortens the horrors of war.
Reprisals beget, of course, reprisals; and had the French and German war been by any accident prolonged, it is appalling to think of the barbarities that would have occurred.
The Macedonian conqueror regarded his whole expedition against Persia as an act of reprisals for the invasion of Greece by Xerxes, 150 years before his own time.
Rarer, at least on the surface, arereprisals of good.
These words gave hope of the development of better feeling and of those “reprisals of good” which many believe to be more constructive than reprisals of frightfulness.
The old demand for “reprisals,” leading to counter-reprisals and a crescendo of cruelty.
The spectroscope story is a particularly good example of the way reprisals of good work out.
The spirit produced by reprisals of good is well shown in the following extracts from an article in The Friend.
Statements about enemy reprisalsare usually less frank than this.
In reprisals of good we may learn something from the new Russia.
The neutral observer has usually to watch each side describing its most drastic actions as reprisals upon the other for similar deeds.
In this connection it would be well to state that from the point of view of reprisals we were entirely justified in attacking the Lusitania.
Nothing can be more melancholy than thesereprisals in painting, by a pack of cards, in the presence of stakes for the roasting of smugglers and of the cauldron for the boiling of counterfeiters.
Mother Hucheloup did not appear to understand very clearly the benefit which she was to derive from thesereprisals made on her account.
French ships had been searched and seized, and in reprisals an embargo had been laid upon English vessels and goods at La Rochelle and other places.
The determined attitude of Carleton, who threatened reprisals in the Channel upon the ships returning from the East Indies had its effect, and the slow-moving Netherlanders were at last stirred to action.
As far as Fallaray's hard-and-fast stand against reprisals was concerned she cared nothing.
Any sound form of government would have to give equal rights, but it would have to be strong and farseeing to prevent the greedy exploitation and savage reprisals which such conditions would otherwise evolve.
They will have to defend the many from the machinations of the few and the few from the violent reprisals of the many.
The enterprising spirit which has characterized our naval force, and its success, both in restraining insults and depredations on our coasts, and in reprisals on the enemy, will not fail to recommend an enlargement of it.
It was not without reluctance that he used reprisals towards the Americans, while he saw that Congress had ordered the confiscation of all French vessels which might arrive in the United States.
Terrible reprisals followed the attempt on the life of Nasr-ud-Din Shah.
The cruisers of France were preying on our commerce; if there was war, why were we restrained from general reprisals on her commerce?
Of the nature of these remedies I have heretofore had occasion to speak; and, in reference to a particular contingency, to express my conviction that reprisals would be best adapted to the emergency then contemplated.
The French minister was recalled from the United States; the American minister received his passport; and reprisalswere recommended to Congress by the President.
As is apt to be the case with reprisals and other unreasoning forms of popular vengeance, the blow fell in the wrong quarter, and innocent people were made scapegoats for the guilty.
They feared reprisals and Indian revenge and, whenever possible, had fled out of reach of danger, many of them across the Arkansas River, taking with them what of their property they could.
Brian then made reprisals on Malachy, by sending boats up the Shannon burning the royal rath of Dun Sciath.
These troops constantly made good reprisals for what had been taken, by successful raids on the castle or the garrison.
The juries of Mayo and Sligo were equally complacent; but there was stern resistance made in Galway, and stern reprisals were made for the resistance.
The enterprising spirit which has characterized our naval force and its success, both in restraining insults and depredations on our coasts and in reprisals on the enemy, will not fail to recommend an enlargement of it.
In such a case this remedy of reprisals is recognized by the law of nations, not only as just in itself, but as a means of preventing actual war.
He recommended a final demand of redress, with a contingent authority to the Executive to make reprisals if that demand should be made in vain.
In a spirit of kindness and forbearance, however, he recommended reprisals as a milder mode of redress.
The right of reprisals is admitted but exception is taken to the view of Grotius that in case of reprisals and all captures made by private undertaking the proceeds belong immediately to the captor.
And indeed, says Blackstone, this custom of reprisals seems dictated by nature herself for which reason we find in the most ancient times very notable instances of it.
But here the necessity is obvious of calling in the sovereign power to determine when reprisals may be made; else every private sufferer would be a judge in his own cause.
In the case of reprisals the property in goods taken immediately accrues to the captor to the extent of the debt or damages due and expenses, but any balance over this ought to be restored.
Thus in the Iliad, Nestor speaks of making reprisals on the Epeian nation, in satisfaction for a prize won by his father Neleus at the Elian games and for debts due to many private subjects of the Pylian kingdom.
On his coming David fell back across the border, and Stephen made reprisals on a small district of southern Scotland.
It was only the threat that his mercenaries would leave him for fear of reprisals that kept John from hanging his prisoners.
Whether reprisals can be granted to a Burgess that's living at Paris, and robbed in his return to Paris, for recovering the money or goods that he has been deprived of in another Prince's dominions?
The pride of Ferdinand was piqued at this information; and he was even animated with the desire of making reprisals upon this fraternity, from which he ardently longed to retrieve his honour and effects.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reprisals" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.