What's the difference between repercussion and reprisal?

Repercussion


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation; as, the repercussion of sound.
  • (n.) Rapid reiteration of the same sound.
  • (n.) The subsidence of a tumor or eruption by the action of a repellent.
  • (n.) In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the fetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In spite of the limitations arising from the complex geometry of the right ventricule, echocardiography may be the most important non-invasive technique in the evaluation of the structural and functional repercussion of hypertension on the right ventricle.
  • (2) Father Vincent Twomey said that given the damage done by Smyth and the repercussions of his actions, "one way or another the cardinal has unfortunately lost his moral credibility".
  • (3) Because of the central regulatory and metabolic importance of the liver, primary genito-endocrine disorders may also have hepatic repercussions.
  • (4) Different repercussion of drug therapy on rhythmic profile of patients with CHF.
  • (5) It has been found that the UV radiation-induced extreme state of the cells in a radiant culture produces distantly in an intact detector culture, which has only an optic contact with it, the cytopathic effect (CPE) as a repercussion of a specificity of morphological manifestations imprinted in the affected culture.
  • (6) Keane, now assistant manager at Aston Villa and with the Republic of Ireland, is heavily critical of Ferguson for pursuing the legal case and says he went to see the United manager to tell him he was taking on the wrong men and that it would have serious repercussions for the club.
  • (7) The urodynamic repercussions of prostatic diseases can also be evaluated by ultrasound.
  • (8) The general late sequelae and the functional and aesthetic repercussions of circatrization were scrutinized and compared with the method of treatment and the postoperative course.
  • (9) She said: "The targets do not look that ambitious, while the failure of the banks to meet their previous targets without any obvious repercussions means they have little incentive to meet these new ones."
  • (10) Beyond the director himself, the coda to the Clinton email inquiry has exposed the FBI as a politicized agency, a development with serious repercussions over the next several years.
  • (11) The data reveal that, within all sibling network categories, daughters were more likely than sons to be providing care to an impaired parent; however, the repercussions of being a caregiver were not similarly uniform.
  • (12) The very terms used to describe the consequences of disease have normative implications which have important repercussions on the elaboration of policies with respect to the identification and treatment of these consequences.
  • (13) There were very few and slight adverse effects secondary to antiemetic drugs: Sedation happened in 25% of chemotherapic cycles and hypotension without clinical repercussion in 15%.
  • (14) With Planned Parenthood poised to take center stage in the spending bill fight, women’s groups have warned that threatening to defund the organization is a “losing strategy” that will have repercussions come election day.
  • (15) In other words, Mr Johnson is making a fool of himself and of Britain over issues that will have the deepest national repercussions.
  • (16) The mechanisms of infertility in varicoceles are still ill-defined; their repercussions are variable and unrelated to the degree of venous dilatations (a good number of such patients have no fertility problems).
  • (17) All working-aged patients in Piedmont receiving dialysis treatment were asked to fill in a questionnaire which aimed to highlight socio-working adjustment by assessing not only the optimal nature of dialytic treatment but also its repercussions in psycho-affective, socio-economic and cultural terms.
  • (18) In this field trial, the repercussions of 2 administration forms of oxfendazole, namely a single administration of a front-loaded device (group 1; n = 18) and a repeated administration of a 90.6 per cent oral suspension (group 2; n = 18), were compared in first season-grazing double-muscled fattening bulls.
  • (19) The results were viewed with regard to the importance of the complications, the chance of decanulation, the carrying time of the canula, adaptation to effort, functional respiratory tests, the value of language, intellectual and psychic repercussions, and repercussions on the social life.
  • (20) Because of its physical, psychological, interpersonal and financial repercussions, post-stroke depression is a sensitive issue facing patients, clinicians and society as a whole.

Reprisal


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of taking from an enemy by way of reteliation or indemnity.
  • (n.) Anything taken from an enemy in retaliation.
  • (n.) The act of retorting on an enemy by inflicting suffering or death on a prisoner taken from him, in retaliation for an act of inhumanity.
  • (n.) Any act of retaliation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Gove's groves of academe, high achievers will be more clearly set apart, laurels for the winners in his regime of fact and rote, 1950s grammar schools reprised, rewarding those who already thrive under any system.
  • (2) It's a free-for-all," one local Christian activist, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisals, said before police re-entered the town.
  • (3) The effects of such actions – presidential demonizing, threats of legal reprisal – are pernicious.
  • (4) Twitchfilm reported yesterday that Ford was in early talks to reprise his role as the future cop, who is tasked with hunting down a gang of rogue bioengineered humanoids, called "replicants", in Scott's earlier film, itself based on the Philip K Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
  • (5) For the record Rock said after the show that he would reprise his role, adding: "Who knows if they would want me again."
  • (6) Unicef also called for the immediate release of children associated with armed forces and groups, and their protection from reprisals.
  • (7) Tens of thousands of civilians fleeing the vast, arid north say they are caught between the militants and brutal army reprisals.
  • (8) The reprisals against human rights defenders, political activists and journalists I’ve described are not nearly a complete list.
  • (9) The quartet wrestles its way to the end of Shostakovich's unquiet masterpiece, the reprised Largo with its complex contrition and very adult fears.
  • (10) Seoul and its allies now face the dilemma of how to respond, as the South Korean public becomes increasingly restive over what many see as the North's immunity from reprisals.
  • (11) Part of this financing has been replaced by alternative credit providers, which are creating new regulatory challenges.” Reprising recent warnings about widening income inequality in many rich countries, the OECD notes a relatively poor performance in the UK: Income inequality is high.
  • (12) Cameron is not expected to hold a formal bilateral meeting with the US president, who is leading the international drive for armed reprisals for Assad's apparent chemical weapons attacks.
  • (13) Around 1,600 French soldiers have been deployed in the CAR to halt violent reprisals between religious factions that have left at least 465 people dead since last Thursday, according to the Red Cross.
  • (14) It was only in the late 1990s that German Sr reprised work on the film, and continued to do so until the end of his life.
  • (15) Indeed he is, with extra brownie points for brown-nosing Hanks with a love-in sketch reprising the great man’s career .
  • (16) But he is considered an even greater liability as the country has descended into chaos amid reprisal attacks from mainly Christian militias against the largely Muslim rebel group.
  • (17) Lu, who declined to give her full name for fear of reprisals, has a short bob haircut, a round face and soft, lilting voice that belies an undercurrent of outrage.
  • (18) Let’s get this one made and that will reinvigorate the franchise and then we’ll go on to maybe doing a more conventional third sequel as we were planning and another idea I have for it.” Aykroyd, who co-wrote the first two Ghostbusters movies and starred as eccentric parapsychologist Ray Stantz, spent several years trying to convince original co-star Bill Murray to reprise his role as Peter Venkman in a followup to 1984’s Ghostbusters and 1989 sequel Ghostbusters 2.
  • (19) The message was a reprise of the commitment to engagement approach he signalled in his inaugural address and was made in an emollient tone that contrasted sharply with that used by George Bush, who included the Islamic Republic in his "axis of evil".
  • (20) Many of these killings appear to be reprisals following attacks.