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Examples of revenge


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If it is peace you want, these actions will produce martyrs' crowns and revenges of a more horrible nature at some distant date.
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Therefore, they have revenged themselves in according them appreciably worse economic treatment than they have meted out to other countries.
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The whirligig of time brings its revenges, and every change in government means the same thing.
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I hope that the old feeling of a desire to be revenged upon those who have offended against society is fast disappearing.
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The last thing we ought to go in for is revenges, raising more dust and more scandal, and exhausting energy which ought to be reserved for the enemy.
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The whirligig of time brings its revenges.
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They also sent reverberations through the officer corps and the soldiery, damaging confidence among some and legitimizing the desire for revenge among others.
In such situations a comic character's sanctimonious pose seems clumsy and inappropriate, the expressions of rage and revenge hollow.
The theatre explores the secular dilemmas through themes of loyalty and revenge, love and fidelity, individual ambition and public order.
I cannot here address civil disobedience or revenge.
He forsakes the long-postponed pleasures of the marriage bed for the sweeter pleasure of revenge.
There he found her sister was dead and revenged everyone who caused her death.
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In turn, revenge is inaugurated following a scene of confession.
I don't know what hidden anger you're taking revenge for.
Acts of collective revenge continued to be endemic in the three subprefectures.
While revenge killings had been suppressed during the communist era, violence spread in early 1997 following the collapse of corrupt pyramid-savings schemes.
His analyses focuses on nongovernmental, impersonal, external whistle-blowing, the motivation for which is moral, rather than for revenge.
I wanted to get revenge and do something for the community.
Revenge is also cited as a reason for providing police with information.
If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.
When faced with a serious injustice, controlled selfdiscipline requires righteous indignation, which could easily take the form of anger, but not of malicious revenge.
Indeed, it was all too quickly crowded off the agenda of official responses, by a governing culture bristling with revenge and self-justification.
They blasphemed and sang dirty songs, struck up illicit conversations with female inmates, conspired to escape, and plotted revenge against personal enemies or the government.
They are supremely conflicted characters, in whose personalities the forces of evil - bloodlust, desire for revenge, and hatred - do battle with softness, tenderness and love.
Which perspective was chosen determined whether one called for mercy or revenge.
The very nation he had served now betrayed him; he wavered between revenge, abdication and denial.
The assumption that we are better off by not hating nor by seeking revenge is basically true, but it has to be looked at cautiously.
The revenge was also fuelled by hatred and fear of reciprocal treatment.
The gangster both needs the money and wants to take revenge for the death of his brother.
Their planning was robust, and to the point, while the emotional power of revenge was channelled creatively by the ringleaders.
Could he have been acting out of a desire for revenge for having been dismissed so peremptorily earlier ?
Under a complete labor contract, workers cannot take revenge against their miserly employers by giving poor effort.
In one of the stories produced, the fact of somebody possessing some berries is construed as a reason for taking revenge on that person.
Is the drama of revenge an expression of the forces present in the wars and culture conflicts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries?
Now this betrayed and illiterate woman wanted revenge.
She wishes to revenge herself against him for having condemned her marriage to the brother of her first husband.
To inflict revenge, these bacchantes lure young men into their circles and force them to dance to their deaths.
In turn, that building type has rounded on the book for revenge, reducing it to an inert object.
The people acted in revenges for atrocities committed against their women and children.
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A wrongful death sentence without justice may claim one or more additional lives, which would in turn result in feuds and revenges, prolonging the tragedy.
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More to the point, the revenge plot itself works to recapture their lost boyishness.
The emphasis now was on revenge and control over the enemy's body; the aim was to cause the greatest possible humiliation, pain and suffering.
Revenge was directed against erstwhile friends as well as professed enemies.
How does evidence for coherent planning square with the strong desire for revenge, running through so much of the surviving testimony ?
What often motivated it was revenge - bandits invariably started their careers to avenge personal wrongs.
Political revenge, and not just market biases, did play a decisive role in the distribution of gains and losses.
The latter is a pure and undeviating expression of the archetypally primitive and uncivilising impulse to revenge.
In later years the librettist was able to exact his revenge.
Such one-sided opinion and inflated figures justify and invite revenge by whichever party is portrayed as the victim.
They were guided by unspoken goals and ideals that transcended motives of hunger, envy, or revenge.
She declines, but swears that she will be revenged eventually.
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The discord (shughbat) of revenge (intiqam); the discord of compensation (diyya).
A significant proportion of them were young, male beggars who were feared capable of working sorcery as a rite of revenge against householders who rejected their pleas for alms.
False memories, true hopes and the angelic : revenge of the postmodern in therapy.
Through this club, he attempts to get his own back on his annoying family, and the programme charts his revenges against them, as well as others.
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The individual victim, though he may indeed want revenge, may have as his primary purpose the recovery of his goods or their equivalent in his pursuit of the thief.
Initially, it was fuelled by revenge.
Thus, the problem of revenge remains, but only at an emotional level.
Finally, if there is evidence to suggest such coherence, how does that evidence square with the strong and emotional desire for revenge, coursing through so much of the surviving testimony ?
However, the first wife, still angry at her late husband for having mar ried a second wife, took revenge on the children and informed the governor of their whereabouts.
The story contains two arcs of revenges.
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The theory models intuitively plausible emotional aspects of strategic interactions, such as surprise, pride, anger, and revenge.
How could the subordinated masses be expected to trust in the rule of law and not give in to the temptation to take revenge directly and immediately?
Thus, a unique chance of a self-reliant local peace and reconciliation process, meant to reverse the vicious spiral of attack and revenge, mistrust and lies, finally failed.
Thirdly, those who practised thuggee, either as a tradition or as a last resort, were not motivated by revenge as the practice was not ' directed ' against anybody in particular.
If one of a tribe's members is wronged or attacked, this set of kinsmen must either take revenge on the aggressor or seek and receive compensation.
Were these later killings motivated by revenge?
After all, it was clearly an 'aria di bravura' of some kind and of a type that we know was normally used to express pride, revenge or anger.
Injured patients report in empirical surveys both the desire to punish for its own sake (revenge) and because they want to cause correction, as if the two were distinct.
Is it merely raw revenge that prevails?
The whole of our law is based upon the fact that it does not protect, that all we get out of it is revenge.
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Even at that time the cloud of revenge could be seen, though it was then no larger than a man's hand.
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We have not been actuated, as has been alleged, either by revenge on the one side or fanaticism on the other.
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I am satisfied that revenge would be both wrong and foolish.
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The pattern of these incidents shows a succession of acts of retaliation and revenge between one community and another.
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I do not believe that you can hang people merely for revenge.
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Revenge upon a trade which he thought was responsible for his reverses.
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The desire for revenge is so often allowed to dominate the way we punish crime in this country.
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As a result, householders would not be prosecuted unless they were launching revenge attacks on burglars.
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Without law and order we should all be savages, undiscriminating in our casual affections, violent in our revenges, and philistine in our attitude to art and science alike.
In this way he can satisfy his revenge at least in imagination, with the aid of an other-worldly mechanism of rewards and punishments.
Alternatively the violation can be inverted; like a black comedy, or the assertion of a stark revenge or retribution.
In this way the former ego can take revenge on the lost object, which it introjected.
The pattern, however, is one that both summons up and obstinately refuses to conform to the requirements and expectations of the traditional revenge play.
Has it unlearned the spirit of revenge and all teeth-gnashing?
Under an incomplete contract, however, workers can take such revenge if they feel that they have been treated unfairly.
Protectionist fallacies had all been exposed, enlightenment was spreading, and landlords' resistance simply encouraged the build-up of more pressure for revenge.
The curse, in a standard tragic irony, finally redounds upon her; the natural order of gender has its revenge.
Even more, it is the revenge of the intellect upon the world.
The woman knows what she wants - namely, suitable revenge - and hesitates only as to the means.
The woman wants revenge: how is she to get it?
They know that some of the informants may be forgetful, mistaken, dishonest, or motivated by a desire for publicity or even revenge.
However, it is the brooding over and development of anger into something more driven and passionate that establishes it as a direct precursor to revenge.
The absence of political accommodation between groups makes revenge and fear of revenge feed on each other.
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