reciprocal action

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But subsequent comments from Bessent on Wednesday, that the White House would not lower the rate without reciprocal action from Beijing, cooled enthusiasm on Wall Street.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2025

Christodoulides said Monday that any improvement in European-Turkish relations should be based on reciprocal action by Turkey, adding that the EU prioritizes a Cyprus peace deal in line with U.N. resolutions.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 31, 2023

“Feelings and ideas are renewed,” he wrote, “the heart enlarged, and the understanding developed only by the reciprocal action of men one upon another.”

From Scientific American • Oct. 19, 2021

Americans may also end up affected by the new rule, if Europe introduces reciprocal action against U.S. citizens.

From Washington Times • Jan. 21, 2016

This taste for reality, and this fulness of knowledge on whatever theme he chose, had a reciprocal action, and the one could not go without the other.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac