"We were, as they say, vindicated," said George Chamoun, owner of Monty Q's, which for weeks displayed a sign in the window dissociating itself from the other Monty.
Divine vengeance is also exciting for the faithful: they feel vindicated and triumphant right now, rather than at some future date.
If the court rules in Japan's favour, however, "they will feel vindicated and free to continue their operations, which are becoming increasingly controversial", he said.
Having bet their careers on coexistence, they can feel vindicated and, as the economy recovers a bit more, hopeful about their prospects at the next general election, due in 2015.Mr Cameron's party faces a walloping in elections in MayBut even if the recovery is stronger than forecasters expect, it will not obviously brighten the mood in Westminster in 2014.
Stephen F. DeAntonio, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said that they felt "totally vindicated".
"It's important that victims were given a voice, that they were given an opportunity to be heard, to feel vindicated, to show they are not crazy and that what they went through did happen," said human rights activist Helen Mack, whose sister Mirna was killed in 1990 while documenting abuses against indigenous communities during the war.
In 2002, the sentences of the youths were finally vacated and the now-men vindicated after they had all served their prison terms.
If the Court under Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., were to strike down the new health care law, or at least a major part of it, perhaps those upset by the decision will feel vindicated because, they no doubt will say, he and the others joining him had voted their politics.
Today the suffragettes are treated as vindicated heroes, but they were force-fed in prisons and demonised as terrorists and anarchists in the early 20th century.
But they have reason to feel vindicated: after the dot-com bust, some analysts thought the company could go broke trying to stock such a wide array of merchandise.
