When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, he saw it as vindication of his sceptical attitude to détente.
When Scientific American published an article that discussed the need for a "new paradigm" in bird evolution (Prum and Brush 2003), creationists saw it as vindication of their creationist model (Matthews 2003).
When Angela Merkel declared that multiculturalism in Germany had "utterly failed", some saw it as a vindication of the French integrationist approach.
William Drewry, the Credit Suisse First Boston analyst who is a bull's bull when it comes to newspaper stocks, sees it as vindication of his faith in the sector.
It is a major victory for Serbia's democratic president, Boris Tadic, and his supporters, who see it as vindication of moral values and the closing of another chapter of a bloody past.
His supporters and his party, which has governed South Africa since the end of apartheid in 1994, would undoubtedly see it as vindication of their contention that Mr. Zuma had been subjected to an unfair and politically motivated prosecution.
What about the stock market rally of which Trump is so inordinately proud, seeing it as vindication of his economic leadership?
It has become clear that there is no criticism so vehement that UKIP do not see it as vindication.
They saw it as a clear vindication of the President's refusal, at the fireside summit, to suggest restrictions on testing new SDI technologies.
While journalists generally saw the dual award to The Post and Guardian US as a vindication, some critics saw it as the culmination of a betrayal by the press.
Josh: When our mother saw it, she saw it as pure vindication.
