Sentence examples for private vendetta from inspiring English sources

Long ago in Athens, the court of the Areopagus was set up, and celebrated in Aeschylus's great play, The Eumenides, so that criminals could be tried by public justice, with no one any longer the subject of private vendetta.

Other vignettes introduce a milquetoast economics professor who secretly pines for an English professor colleague; a former Wall Street trader just out of prison and desperate for a job; a middle-management executive under the thumb of her harridan of a boss; and a disturbed young man in a court-ordered counseling program bent on a private vendetta.

They might also face private vendettas, attempts by family members to avenge the dead.

A senior Macedonian official said privately that today's offensive had gone reasonably well, "and we needed to do it to keep ordinary Macedonians from losing faith in the government and turning to private vendettas".

For a reclusive literary ascetic with patrician attitudes and a Miltonic sense of destiny, Naipaul has maintained a consistently high gossip quotient, trading public provocation and personal insults, pursuing and pursued to this day by private vendettas vigorously conducted in print with ex-friends and once faithful supporters.

The information minister, Raheen Makhdoom, said on Friday that the killing was "the result of a personal vendetta and private hostilities of a group of people" and had "no political roots".

Ms. DeGeneres keeps personal vendettas and private angst tightly in check.

"We will simplify and decentralise the [National Health] service… We shall therefore allow pay-beds to be provided where there is a demand for them; end Labour's vendetta against the private health sector".

In private, some admit that "punishments" are often linked to extortion, drug racketeering, or personal vendettas.

He also released private e-mail exchanges with the agency and urged Fahey to set aside his apparent "personal vendetta and crusade against cycling" and support the TRC.

These actions helped insulate the prime minister from the damage inflicted by the various scandals in his own private life.Mr Berlusconi has refused Mr Bertolaso's proffered resignation, accusing prosecutors of waging a politically motivated vendetta against him.