Reprisals against protected persons and their property are prohibited.

Reprisals in the laws of war are extremely limited, as they commonly breached the rights of civilians, an action outlawed by the Geneva Conventions.

Reprisals refer to acts which are illegal if taken alone, but become legal when adopted by one state in retaliation for the commission of an earlier illegal act by another state.

Reprisals have been feared against the community, leading to speculation of a re-creation of the Alawite State as a safe haven for Assad and the leaders should Damascus finally fall.

Reprisals followed against people suspected to have been opposed to Karume's regime.

* Reprisals had to be preceded by an unsatisfied demand for reparation or compliance with the violated international law.

The Gentleman's Magazine reported that on 20 July 1739 Vice Admiral Edward Vernon and a squadron of warships departed England for the West Indies, and that on 21 July, " Notice was given by the Lords of the Admiralty, that in pursuance of his Majesty's Commission under the Great Seal, Letters of Marque or General Reprisals against the Ships, Goods and Subjects of the King of Spain, were ready to be issued.

" The descendants of Máiné Mór ," says O ' Clery, " had many privileges and immunities from the Kings of Connacht and their successors ; viz .— they were hereditary marshals or generals of the Connacht armies ; they possessed and enjoyed the third part of all the strongholds, and sea-port towns in the province ; also a third part of all prizes and wrecks of the sea, and of all hidden treasures found under ground, and of all silver and gold mines and other metals, belonged to them, together with a third part of all Eric or Reprisals gained and recovered by the Kings of Connacht from other provinces for wrongs received ; with many other of the like enumerated in the ancient Chronicles.

Reprisals against rebels and suspected rebels began right away and lasted for weeks in a highly public and distressing campaign of repression.

The slogan Exhortation, Organization, and Reprisals expressed the discipline and motivation ensuring the Red Army's tactical and strategic success.

Reprisals against Edward's allies began immediately thereafter.

Reprisals intensified between December 1943 and July 1944 when many partisans were tortured and executed by the local Gestapo and the French Milice.

Reprisals followed, and in November 1837 Mzilikazi was decisively defeated by the Boers and thereupon fled northward.

Reprisals against the establishment which had developed under Oliver Cromwell were constrained under the terms of the Indemnity and Oblivion Act which became law on 29 August 1660.

Reprisals were taken on the rest of the Hungarian army.

Reprisals were carried out against Peninsular royalists that were captured.

Reprisals by the Russian state were quick and massive.

Reprisals by the plantation owners led to the rebels burning the crops.

Reprisals by French forces may have killed between 1, 200 ( according to French sources ,) or 12, 000 ( according to the FLN.

Reprisals against pro-Soviet farms and villages were harsh.

Reprisals followed against Christian merchants in Syria and Egypt, and Pope Urban V advised Peter to make peace with the Sultan after unsuccessfully attempting to raise support among the European monarchs.

Reprisals had become a scandal in Britain.

In fact it is not unheard of for teams that are considerably faster on the ergometer to be beaten on the water.

It is technically possible to be a North Korean citizen without being an ethnic Korean-James Dresnok, a European American, acquired North Korean citizenship in 1972-but immigration is almost unheard of, and ethnic minorities are negligible.

The modern ubiquity and power of computers means that even perfume bottles and shampoo dispensers are designed using techniques unheard of by engineers of the 1960s.

Languages that contrast three quantities in diphthongs are extremely rare, but not unheard of ; Northern Sami is known to contrast long, short and " finally stressed " diphthongs, the last of which are distinguished by a long second element.

The major components of the loom are the warp beam, heddles, harnesses or shafts ( as few as two, four is common, sixteen not unheard of ), shuttle, reed and takeup roll.

The only serious prohibitions that seem to exist are against harming sentient beings, or forcing them into undertaking any act ( another concept that seems unnatural to and is, in fact, almost unheard of by almost all Culture citizens ).

Pike grow to a relatively large size ; lengths of and weights of are not unheard of.

The sau sakhis are generally not upheld authentic or unheard of in mainstream and there are some who believe in it but in due question it is generally not preached in mainstream.

Lightning and thunder are virtually unheard of.

Average winter temperatures are only about 2 – 3 C ( 3 – 5 F ) degrees colder than in cities such as Portland and Seattle, and temperatures below − 20 C (− 4 F ) are very rare, but not unheard of.

The film includes a rather novel scene filmed ' on ' the recently completed San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge, wherein Nick & Nora Charles ', while driving east-bound on the upper deck ( disallowed when the bridge was ' reconfigured ' in 1962 ) are stopped on the bridge ( for speeding, by a highway patrolman ) while traffic whizzes by, which would be unheard of in recent history.

The modern ubiquity and power of computers means that even perfume bottles and shampoo dispensers are designed using techniques unheard of by shipbuilders of 1960s.

Many otherwise typical metal themes such as religion and politics are comparatively rare but not unheard of.

These bonus tracks are mainly composed of demos for the album with the inclusion of the previously unheard " I Will Survive ", a track recorded for the album but not included.

However, pay-to-play models are not unheard of.

Women were almost unheard of in the ranks of leading orchestral conductors through most of the 19th and 20th centuries – there are remarkable and sobering accounts of orchestras refusing to play for them – but today, artists like Marin Alsop and Simone Young have decisively broken the gender barrier, to the point that gender neutrality is conceivable in the field and musicians increasingly regard gender as a non-issue.

Critic, Stephen Erlewine of AllMusic wrote that Dion's vocals " are back at top of their game " and that she was " getting back to pop basics and performing at a level unheard in a while.

Considering that this is rare, it must also be noted that it is not unheard of that patients are medicated or given higher doses without their knowledge.

Tenths and hundredths and, occasionally, thousandths of seconds count: World Cup races and Olympic medals have sometimes been decided by as little as one or two hundredths of a second, and ties are not unheard of.

Single fathers are far less common than single mothers, constituting 16 % of single-parent families ; nonetheless they are not unheard of.