with a vengeance

vengeance | American Dictionary

vengeance
noun[ U ]
us/ˈven·dʒəns/
action against someone to punish that person for having hurt you:
She cried out for vengeance.

Examples of vengeance

vengeance
However, when the economic situation began to deteriorate again in the early 1950s, old problems re-emerged with a vengeance.
However, our results suggest that across the world's democratic systems it is not parties per se that shape voters' cognitive attributions of vengeance and reward.
Here is where the history and sociology of science reenter the metanarrative with a vengeance.
Though after his death, commitment to controlling the disease has waned and it is now back with a vengeance.
They therefore reverted with a vengeance to their traditional forms of rebellion and acquisition which had proven so effective before.
Even infidelity of the most venal kind does not justify such vengeance.
Unfortunately, they pursue another traditional dualism with a vengeance, that of animal and environment.
He seems to relish his day of vengeance before it has happened.
Readers were therefore liable to imagine vengeance as a private matter rather than a blow against political tyranny.
Here were "the laws" returning to the literary realm with a vengeance.
He vows that only a "sweeping and consummate vengeance for the indignity alone should satisfy him".
They believed that tragedy was in their hands and that anyone who transgressed their laws would suffer vengeance as a result.
The bookshelves in her office groan with work on historical institutions - the state is back in with a vengeance.
At the same time the purpose of punishment is to propagate virtue by warnings rather than to exact vengeance for crimes committed.
Afterwards he got vengeance by forays that brought with them cold care: he took the king's life.
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