Wilson thought both France and Britain were being too vindictive and unreasonable. |
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It is childish and hateful to manufacture petty, vindictive cliques who seem to thrive on aloofness, exclusivity and secrecy. |
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What kind of idyll was it that was supposed to emerge from this ugly, vindictive battle? |
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The only way this expulsion can be interpreted is as a spiteful and vindictive move. |
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For the life of me I can't understand the vindictive nature of their comments. |
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As well as levelling whole cities, the forces of nature pursue and torment individuals in the most vindictive and sadistic manner. |
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This legislation can be used by malicious and vindictive people to get at their neighbours who might have a puppy or a dog next door. |
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Those opposing him were so vindictive, untrue and stupid that they helped his cause even more than those that praised him. |
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Of course, the senior officers ran the risk of incurring the wrath of a vindictive and ruthless Chief Minister. |
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The vindictive politics of the period may have pushed the nation over the abyss, but at least the cadres were squeaky clean. |
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Never the less, it also makes me extremely bitter and vindictive and say horrid things. |
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If it was an accident, it was unfortunately timed to appear like a vindictive fit of pique. |
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Les had gone into the deal with full understanding of how vindictive and unforgiving Arnie and those in his organization could be. |
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Though Scylla is bent, harsh, and angry, the source of her rage is not vindictive. |
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I'm not vindictive and I don't wish any ill health on him, but he has to serve the time. |
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Its great achievement is to recover the complexity of a literary mode that could easily be dismissed as vindictive, petty, and obscure. |
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The uncertainty led to unpredictable twists in his character, making him by turns free-hearted and crabbedly vindictive. |
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A couple today told how they were pushed to breaking point by a vindictive neighbour who waged a 15-month hate campaign against them. |
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He was a stern, vindictive man with piercing dark eyes and a booming basso voice which always made her shudder. |
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Eclair's writing is spiteful and vindictive, her agenda unreconstructed and male. |
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Besides, you will already know there is not a vindictive or a spiteful bone in a Lab's body. |
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The fact that McCain had been portrayed by a home state newspaper as a vindictive philanderer with a volcanic temper only adds zest. |
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Everything conspires to bring out the worst in him as he turns petty, malicious and vindictive. |
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And then you can send off vindictive messages to the spammers, telling them you told on them. |
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It is often vindictive, lying, erroneous, deceitful, baseless, and devoid of any fact. |
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He was self-willed, obstinate, aggressive, vindictive, beset by feelings of inferiority, and yet firmly convinced of his own abilities. |
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When I was a boy in the Vale of Leven 60 years ago I was regularly belted at school by vindictive teachers. |
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I truly did not appreciate the breadth and depth of the vindictive power of his unholiness. |
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Not just a grudge, but a hateful, vindictive, nasty bitterness that I didn't even know existed until this person's name was brought up. |
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I am still facing totally vindictive charges relating to that little incident with that chap who invaded my doorstep peddling household goods. |
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This sonorousness of vindictive words might help to characterize how, say, racist speech works on and in its targets. |
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The case had been dragging on for a long time and the issuance of a passport valid for only two years seemed clearly vindictive. |
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Her attitude towards her ageing former colleagues has been cruel, vindictive and hypocritical. |
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Goerge says public record will show that he is not a vindictive person. |
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Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives' vindictive, dishonest and incompetent attitude persists. |
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Such acts or conduct must be harsh, vindictive, malicious and reprehensible. |
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Regretfully, this is not enforced when a vindictive parent makes such false allegations. |
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Polanski has been made the latest public target in the state's vindictive attempts to uphold the puritan myth and hide this reality. |
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They thought he was a faithless husband, she was scary and vindictive – and many have a knee-jerk dislike of all public figures anyway. |
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In the scenes in which she was abused by the vindictive villagers, Doone gave a moving representation of the ruffled pride of the old and slightly dotty. |
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What happens when more vindictive political forces gain control over these levers? |
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Day after day he sees vindictive, false and misleading media stories. |
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The state has proved how nasty and vindictive it can be over all this. |
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This vindictive and unprecedented assault marks a new low in Mr Abbott's ideological attack on the rights and conditions of Australian workers. |
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Ever had a petty and vindictive boss, competent only at deflecting blame for his own shortcomings? |
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The losers must not be vindictive and the winners must not be arrogant. |
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Will the Prime Minister stop this personal and vindictive vendetta against minority rights in Canada? |
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The double standard of sexualization is hypocritical at best and ineffectively vindictive at worse. |
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In what appears to be an extraordinary act of vindictive destruction, a lifetime's work in Hungary has been destroyed in only a few months. |
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He was a notorious parasite and schnorrer, but few of his hosts were overtly unwelcoming, since he could be ingeniously vindictive in print, even when seeming to offer praise. |
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This vindictive, dishonest and incompetent government is still skeptical about the science. |
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Could he tell the members of the House and Canadians in general who the legislation would be harmful to or vindictive to? |
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If the judge enforces the Rules, he or she feels a crabbed, vindictive martinet. |
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Clients must therefore be invited to formulate their grievances in language that is less vindictive. |
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Even if a woman were seeking shelter to pursue a vindictive agenda, she would not be accepted. |
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Mr. Speaker, this vindictive, dishonest, incompetent government will stop at nothing to silence the voices of dissent. |
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Participants believed that, if a victim wishes to prepare a statement that is vindictive in its content and tone, that should be their decision. |
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Again, both these areas are an example of where, as I said, we must be smart: we must be smart ahead of trying to be vindictive. |
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Aimee could spot the vindictive curl on his lips, the hand holding the cup of fruit juice rising and before she knew it, the contents of the cups were emptied all over her. |
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He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well. |
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Robert Machray and Jacque Lynn Colton are disreputability incarnate as the vindictive Peachum parents. |
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I am willing to pay a fair amount, but not to be mulcted in that vindictive way, and nuts to the Hellfare State. |
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Elsewhere, the hounding of Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel laureate and founder of the Grameen Bank who briefly flirted with politics, was vindictive. |
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Benalisme, as Tunisians sometimes dubbed his style of rule, brought with it increasingly farcical elections, an absurdly adulatory press and dread of the pervasive, petty and vindictive security services. |
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With a vindictive government like this one and the present health minister who is a former justice minister, we would see that vindictiveness come forward and hurt Canadians. |
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They worked their guts out on the bill, only to have the government, in a very backhanded, very mean and vindictive way, tell its own backbench members of parliament that their work does not mean anything. |
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Repeated and over time offensive behaviour through vindictive, cruel or malicious attempts to humiliate or undermine an individual or groups of employees. |
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A prime example is Stan Valchek, the commander of the south-eastern district, who ends season five one of the few Wire winners despite being repeatedly exposed as vindictive, devious and incompetent. |
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Mr. Speaker, when this vindictive, dishonest, incompetent government signed the softwood lumber agreement, we told the government that it was flawed. |
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This is a reference to the fact that the jurisprudence in this area generally states that a defendant's conduct must be harsh, vindictive and malicious to support awarding punitive damages. |
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You asked the question, is this the action of a vindictive career manager? |
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Those words may sound a bit mild but this is such a vindictive government that hardly any third party spokesperson dares say anything even slightly negative about the budget. |
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It makes the audience feel better, less combative, less vindictive. |
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So Aircraft Carrier Midway helped rescue thousands of South Vietnamese from the invading vindictive North Vietnamese. |
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Shakespeare's Richard was a cruel, vindictive and irresponsible king, who attained a semblance of greatness only after his fall from power. |
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In his controversies he was credulous, careless about the truth of his charges, and insatiably vindictive. |
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By the mid-1970s, the BATF had earned a reputation for being excessively aggressive, nit-picky, vindictive, and often unscrupulous. |
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What an arrogant, bullying, vindictive, childish, harrumphing, leotard-lurking, bombastic bloater of a toad-shaped Bagpuss wannabe. |
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In fact, Gwendolen, not intending it, but intending the contrary, had offended her hostess, who, though not a splenetic or vindictive woman, had her susceptibilities. |
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John's reforms were less popular with the barons themselves, especially as they remained subject to arbitrary and frequently vindictive royal justice. |
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Many saw the dragging out of the result as being unduly vindictive on the part of Pitt and eventually the examinations were abandoned with Fox declared elected. |
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