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Перевод: reprisal

[существительное]
репрессалия ; ответная мера; расправа

Тезаурус:

1. Informed sources in the Caribbean thought it likely that the political maneouvrings behind all this were by way of a reprisal for a report by Lord Avebury criticizing Forbes Burnham's ruling party for election-rigging.
2. The air was heavy with the threat of revolution and reprisal.
3. The decision takes immediate effect and will remove for many workers the threat of reprisal from aggrieved party officials.
4. At this even the boldest goat fled to the nearest hut for fear of reprisal, and from the cover of the walls watched the frustrated officer screaming at sentries, Poles, hut and bicycle in turn.
5. Moreover, the entire male population of Moussey (210 persons) was taken to a concentration camp as a reprisal for sheltering S.A.S. men; only seventy came back.
6. Phalangist officers of the time insist that he told them to kill 40 Muslims in reprisal.
7. They had always relied on speed and skill in horsemanship, which enabled them to dash in upon their adversaries, fire off a salvo from their short but deadly bows, and then retreat before any reprisal.
8. But it seems clear that this one bears the marks of defeat and despair, and of a reprisal directed at the liberal England which has let the violator down.
9. The immediate cause was an Israeli reprisal raid in October 1953 on the village of Qibya in which 66 villagers were killed.
10. They were afraid of reprisal because the Arabs had just ambushed a relief convoy at Kubri.
11. Was it benevolence, or fear of reprisal?
12. In 1955 a major Israeli reprisal raid on Gaza persuaded Egypt that it must arm itself, and it found a ready supplier in the Soviet Union which was anxious to gain a foothold in the Middle East as part of its policy of making friends in the post-colonial Third World.
13. A minority report, signed in 1987 by opposition members, accused President Garcia and his cabinet of choosing to stage a "violent reprisal" against the prisoners.