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No one dared ask any questions as they feared the reprisal that was bound to follow, but each started to feel good about themselves
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flaunt the laws of our land without fear of reprisal is of no immediate concern to some politicians entrusted with the welfare and security of its citizens
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The formal passage of this egregious bill, that ties ―guest‖ worker programs with proposed amnesty for ―resident‖ aliens, would further encourage potential lawbreakers, who, not unlike their predecessors, would feel emboldened to enter our country illegally without fear of (legal) reprisal
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They would leave the horse and cart alone, for fear of reprisal
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As reprisal are part of gangland culture, and in keeping with the way things are done in South London
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So the music stopped, the seat was occupied and those who could not renew their grasp upon it were ground underfoot in such a convincing manner that those who had quickly occupied it would feel secure enough to dispose of any competing heirs without fear of reprisal
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It would appear that indulgences were given to those who had previously engaged in less than holy actions, in order to sanctify them before engaging in the pope’s Holy War of reprisal
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The evidence which I had that the officials who took the “adverse personnel action” against me in reprisal because I made the protected communications was the purported unanimous vote to fire me by the officials who were the subjects of my investigations and/or allegations in the attachments that I supplied to the three IGs
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You’re wrong in thinking that raw power has anything to do with it, for as I sit here I don’t have enough personal magic power to even cast a spark, let alone light a candle, nor any physical strength at all, yet I could kill you and everyone here at any moment I chose, without fear of reprisal
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information as a reprisal in some future dispute between them
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Her heart was the habitation of sorrow that night, and fear of a reprisal of said persecution the next day made her weary concerning school in the morning
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The fact of War is that sometimes gossip and rumours is often taken as reality and the rumours began to circulate that the German Commander Sepp Dietrich had been murdered by the British and the reprisal killings began, the news that about 80 British soldiers of the Warwickshire Regiment had been slaughtered around Wormhoudt was greeted with joy and elation in the German ranks
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The Bard had picked the right city to annihilate for disabling industry but had picked the wrong city for reprisal
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For her part, Fernanda interpreted the disappearance as a reprisal by the invisible doctors and she sewed a pocket of casing to the inside of her camisole where she kept the new pessaries that her son sent her
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'Gomorrah' was a reprisal, in part, for the bombing, by the Luftwaffe of urban targets - most infamously Coventry where 380 died and the 13,339 killed during the Blitz on London, in September and October 1940
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sparked a round of reprisal talks
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However, a dramatic event intervened; Hitler had forbidden terror bombing on civilians but when a German formation got lost and jettisoned their bombs over London, Churchill ordered a reprisal raid on Berlin
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Titus and Barnabas were still sitting only feet away and heard every word spoken, and it was plain to see that Barnabas too felt the impact of this reprimand, for his head hung low of the reprisal just heard
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After receiving the false confessions to justify the murderous rampage, Stalin went back on his word and had the families of the accused executed as well to limit the possibility of reprisal
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They could also possibly take hostages as a reprisal measure, something they were said to often do
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That had left Mobutu to wonder and worry about possible reprisal measures from the Spacers League but, since all the space surveillance radars of the Southern Federation had been destroyed in the past war, he had no way to know about the movement of Spacers’ spaceships
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doors, blasting open overtly humble lives without fear of reprisal
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I accepted the reprisal as it provided an excuse for a wet face
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When asked why she could not leave him in spite of the repeated attacks, her primary reason was to have a complete family and the fear of reprisal both from in-laws and from own parents if she tried to leave their abode
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The male slaves didn’t rebel out of fear that their wives and children would be slaughtered in reprisal
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guesthouse, their husbands’ reprisal should prove a grand spectacle
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To the credit of the man, he did not cower at the fate that played out in all its apocalyptic reprisal before him
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Today military pilots can drop bombs killing thousands, even hundreds of thousands of living people and never have to ‘worry’ about any reprisal, any causal effect of their actions
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Fritz had spent the summer planning his reprisal
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These forces, both women and men, create a fear of reprisal, retained far into
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Whichever of the two terms I fulfill, there shall be no reprisal against me; and God is witness over what we say
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Operation Reprisal is a go, after my briefing, you’ll be on your way so pay attention
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It was a heavy loss with the tally of lost agents on Operation Reprisal now five, with every chance the number could increase further
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team’s failure in their last operation to date; Operation Reprisal
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Operation Reprisal came about because of what happened on another operation, codename Safeguard
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Now, let’s move on to Operation Reprisal please
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He informed us that Operation Reprisal was a go operation and that G
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He had spent the last hour searching through every record that had been stored for Operation Reprisal
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‘Following our short recess, the Inquiry Committee for Operation Reprisal has now reached our final recommendations
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The provision about granting letters of marque and reprisal was important in the past, when private United States citizens actually commanded ships that were prepared for battle and sometimes were able to capture enemy vessels
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Some believed it, but kept silent for fear of reprisal
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A few days before, he might have met with reprisal, but today, there was no such spirit
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And, for that matter, as a belated reprisal for the Charisian prisoners who were sent to Zion for Punishment year before last
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This immediately put her on the defensive, and with one of those sudden impulses of reprisal to which she was liable she gave him a little push from her
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Perhaps Fear of Reprisal at the Landlord’s Hands banish’d her from our Bed, or perhaps ’twas some other Reason unguess’d at then
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Gavroche disdainfully contented himself, by way of reprisal, with elevating the tip of his nose with his thumb and opening his hand wide
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Williams said he had been decidedly in favor of issuing letters of marque and reprisal at once; he believed it would have cut off all that fungus matter now deteriorating the body politic—for the people of New England were as patriotic as any, and when the choice was between their own and a foreign country, they would cling to their own
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Under this conviction, I proposed a resolution limiting the duration of the embargo, and authorizing, at the same time, the issuing of letters of marque and reprisal
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I, who voted for the motion going to give power to the President of the United States to issue letters of marque and reprisal against that nation which persevered in its edicts after the other had withdrawn them, am not willing, on the passage of this bill, to say we, as by it you admit instead of continuing the exclusion against armed vessels, where, instead of a recession, injuries have rather been added
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This decree purports to be an act of reprisal on this country, and for what cause? Not for any act of hostility by us; not for any seizures or confiscations of French vessels or French property under the authority, or within the limits of this Government
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Look at the decree itself, and you will find the motive, or rather the pretext for this act of reprisal
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Thus, because we deemed it advisable to pass a law which we supposed was a mere municipal regulation, inasmuch as it related to our own citizens, or our own territories; a law, which, according to its letter, applied equally to both belligerents, and which was not to commence its operation until the 20th of May, contained in itself a notice sufficient to prevent any injury to French subjects; for this cause, and for this alone, the Emperor adopts, as an act of reprisal, a decree which subjects to seizure and confiscation, not only American property which should reach the continent after notice of the decree, or even after its date, but property which arrived there at any time for the preceding twelve months
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But, sir, if the French Government is allowed to have in the act of March an excuse for reprisal, we had better discontinue making laws altogether; for it is difficult to find in our statute book a law less hostile to France, or more within the right of an independent Government to enact
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Without asking for the evidence which the President had as to the repeal or modification of these decrees, I now put it to the committee whether every member of it is not perfectly convinced that if any modification, or suspension, or repeal, has taken place, it goes no farther than to restrain future seizures, leaving the property already seized to take the course of confiscation and sale? Do we not know, that, in the months of October and November, our vessels and merchandise have been brought under the hammer in pursuance of those decrees; and have we not lately seen, in our public journals, a list of some eighteen or twenty ships advertised by the French Government for sale at Bayonne, on the 5th of December? Nay, sir, the Executive was informed, before he issued his proclamation, by the letter from the Duke of Cadore to General Armstrong, of the 12th of September, 1810, that, "as to the merchandise confiscated, it having been confiscated as a measure of reprisal, the principles of reprisal must be the law in that affair
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As the principles of reprisal are to be the law, it follows that a restoration of the property depends on the discretion of the Emperor, and is not to be claimed by us as a matter of right, but of favor
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And what have we to propose, according to the principles of reprisal, to obtain the restoration? Is it, that we have suffered the non-intercourse law to expire? Why, sir, this had taken place long before the letter of the Duke of Cadore
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But our loyalty to the contrary notwithstanding, the Duke of Cadore in his letter to General Armstrong of the 12th of September, in answer to one from him of the 7th of that month, tells the General, that the Emperor sees with pleasure that the Americans are far from acknowledging the tyrannical principles of English legislation, yet informs him that as to the merchandise confiscated, it having been confiscated as a measure of reprisal, the principles of reprisal must be the law in that affair
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Need I, sir, to excite caution in legislation, refer the House to the consequences of the non-intercourse act of the 1st of March, 1809; for, however free from all exception from the belligerents was that act, yet France, in the wantonness of power, made it the pretext for the exercise of the rigorous right of reprisal by an additional decree, which, with the preceding, have, like the besom of destruction, swept our property from the ocean
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This letter, which contains but one sentence of plain truth, viz: "That the Emperor applauded the general embargo laid by the United States"—after asserting the most palpable falsehood, by denying that the Emperor had knowledge of our law of March, 1809, until very lately, and justifying the seizure and condemnation of all American property which had entered, not only the ports of France, but those of Spain, Naples and Holland, dating from the 20th of May, 1809; and declaring that reprisal was a right commanded by the dignity of France, a circumstance on which it was impossible to make a compromise—the letter proceeds: "Now Congress retrace their steps, they revoke the act of the first of March, the ports of America are open to French commerce, and France is no longer interdicted to the Americans
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Instead of an authenticated act of revocation, bearing the authority of the most ordinary law or edict of the French Empire, we have nothing but a letter from the agent of the Government, and which the Emperor may disavow at pleasure—as was done in the case of the Minister of Marine, in his explanations to General Armstrong of the intended operation of the Berlin decree—instead of the restoration of the immense amount of American property, of which your citizens have been most cruelly and unjustly robbed by this fell monster of the age—and which the President declared, through the Secretary of State, in letters to General Armstrong of the 5th of June and July, must precede an arrangement with France, and was an indispensable evidence of the just purpose of France towards the United States; instead of having forty or fifty millions' worth of our property restored, we are vauntingly told, that the property was confiscated as a measure of reprisal, that the principles of reprisal must be the law in that affair, and that a compromise would be inconsistent with the dignity of France—the plain English of which is, we have the property and we will keep it
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" From what this presumption arose, I am at a loss to say—the letter of the Duc de Cadore to General Armstrong, of the 12th September, had been received here; we had been told there would be no compromise; the law of reprisal must govern
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Sir, the law of reprisal, as recognized by the laws of nations, could never have authorized the seizure
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The moment that confiscation takes place the principle of reprisal ceases and it becomes an act of war
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The law of reprisal had nothing to do with the affair, and the confiscation of our property excludes the idea of restoration
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That war be and the same is hereby declared to exist between Great Britain and her Dependencies, and the United States and their Territories; and that the President of the United States is hereby authorized to use the whole land and naval force of the United States to carry the same into effect; and to issue to private armed vessels of the United States commissions or letters of marque and general reprisal, in such form as he shall think proper, and under the seal of the United States, against the vessels, goods, and effects of the Government of Great Britain, of its subjects, and of all persons inhabiting within any of its territories or possessions
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Resolved, That the bill entitled "An act declaring War between Great Britain and her Dependencies, and the United States and their Territories," be recommitted to the committee to whom was committed the Message of the President, of the 1st instant, with instructions to modify and amend the same, in such manner that the President of the United States shall have power to authorize the public armed ships and vessels of the United States to make reprisals upon the public and private ships and vessels, goods, and merchandise, belonging to the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or to the subjects thereof; and also to grant letters of marque and reprisal, under suitable regulations, to be provided in the bill, to private armed ships and vessels to make like reprisals
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The expulsion of the British from their North American possessions, and granting letters of marque and reprisal against Great Britain are contemplated
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A single impressment or capture may be well admitted to form a ground of reprisal and war; but we should have been a ruined country long ere now, if, under the existing circumstances of the world, and belligerent Europe, we had yielded to this quickness of sensibility, and had gone to war for a first and single instance of aggression from either of the belligerents
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But to be more specific—I would grant letters of marque and reprisal, and authorize privateering
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He thought it better to arm our merchantmen; to grant letters of marque and reprisal; and repeal our non-importation law
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He is instructed, he tells us, to propose that the Government of the United States shall instantly recall their letters of marque and reprisal against British ships, together with all orders and instructions for any acts of hostility whatever against the territories of His Majesty or the persons or property of his subjects
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it purports to be an act of reprisal on this country, 354;