Sentence examples for avenging from inspiring English sources

The 7-1 rout by the Germans in Belo Horizonte on Tuesday was the worst ever suffered by Brazil, and a first competitive home defeat in 39 years, as their hopes of avenging their defeat to Uruguay in the final back in 1950 were emphatically dashed.

The Magpies well and truly had their pants pulled down by Essendon at the MCG on Sunday, the Bombers handsomely avenging their harrowing Anzac Day defeat.

He spouts Shakespeare, listens to old tunes on a contraband jukebox and plays mind-games with Evey to turn her from a fearful secretary at a television network into the avenging angel with a shaved pate who flips the switch that brings on the revolution.John Hurt plays the dictator, and Stephen Rea plays an honest cop trying to solve the mystery.

Israel's policy of avenging any attack on its citizens dictated a dramatic response to the restaurant bombing, and other options, such as targeting the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, seemed inappropriate.

That leaves scope for an avenging authoritarian with an equally memorable hairstyle to stand against him.

In his previous career as a film actor, Mr Estrada had often played a kind of Robin Hood with a machinegun, avenging the injustices inflicted on the poor by the rich and powerful.

Democrats had made a huge fuss about taking Jeb Bush's scalp, thus humiliating the president and avenging the Supreme Court's decision in Bush v Gore.

Xenophobic at the best of times, they spread their accusations widely: the British are intent on avenging 19th-century defeats in Afghanistan; are scheming with Pakistan; they are planning to steal drug profits.

So far, five groups have claimed to be behind the bombings, ranging from an al-Qaeda-linked organisation claiming to be avenging the foreign occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan to a hitherto-unknown local group protesting at the Egyptian government's treatment of locals after last October's bombings.

The killer, a 29-year-old woman lawyer from Jenin in the West Bank, was apparently avenging the deaths of a brother and cousin, killed four months ago by Israeli troops hunting Islamic Jihad.

All of the plausible explanations or culprits (Mr Putin; avenging security agents; infighting among Kremlin factions) are alarming, as are any of the ways in which the assassins could have acquired the polonium.