He wished he could think of some way to help her gain revenge without inviting further reprisals.

Any attempt to separate them would only invite reprisals.

But the leaders will never say this out loud, because this would run up against China's long-held principle of "noninterference" as well as to invite reprisals.

It simply invites reprisals.

Not long ago the Popular Front's call for "independence" would have been regarded as an act of astonishing defiance, inviting reprisals from Moscow.

Destabilizing Presence The Amal leaders insist that the Party of God's presence is destabilizing to the southern region, inviting Israeli reprisals and threatening the United Nations peacekeeping force.

But deploying them against Israel's vastly superior air power would invite Israeli reprisals.

They said that they had already broadcast their most graphic tapes and that to be seen cooperating with Government investigators invited violent reprisals on journalists and ultimately a less well-informed public.

You decide whether it would be wise to adopt a strategy that would invite reprisals.

Caribbean leaders acknowledge that their relationship with the United States remains far more important than burgeoning ties with Cuba and that they would not take any steps that might invite American reprisals.