Sentence examples for avenging wrongs from inspiring English sources

"When I came to this law school in 1988, I had the idea of avenging wrongs, not negotiating them". His perspective — and career path — changed when he took a negotiation course with Professor Roger Fisher LL.B. '48, co-author of the classic "Getting to Yes" (1981).

The right to avenge wrongs was reserved for the victims and their families, and to break the code of silence was to incur reprisals from the Mafia.

Broyard had a highly developed appreciation of the paper's institutional power, and he even managed to use it to avenge wrongs done him in his Village days.

In such cases, the ruler acts as tyrant; the subjects are merely treated as means to avenge wrongs done to him, while they themselves suffer serious loss (DDB 4.8).

Isis leader issues call to Muslims Jump to media player The leader of the Islamist extremist group Isis has called on his fighters to avenge wrongs committed against Muslims worldwide.

The BBC noted that Al Qaeda's purpose is to avenge "wrongs committed by Christians against Muslims".

They settled scores, they avenged wrongs, and we cheered for them even when a fine line had to be drawn between the good guys and the bad guys.

It is an old story line: the father rejected, the son welcomed back by a regretful nation, avenging old wrongs.

The cause of Scottish independence has never been about avenging past wrongs, or a "surge in nationalist feeling" based on culture or ethnicity.

Any number of whites, filled with Smith's propaganda images of black Marxist guerrillas bent on avenging historical wrongs, pictured themselves slaughtered in their beds.

One thing that struck me about the views I heard in eastern Kentucky was the sense that Obama would appoint blacks to positions of power with the specific intention of avenging the wrongs of the past.