Before a court system ensured that people followed through with promises stated in contracts, social order was maintained by a combination of kindness and the threat of vengeful acts.
It may be expressed in a series of punitive actions that go on for months or years or in vengeful acts that follow the provoking occurrence and the anger by an equally lengthy period of time.
"There is no point in vengeful acts that terrify people, provoke the entire world against mujahideen, and prompt the world to fight them".
Tsipras accused the country's creditors of a vengeful act of humiliation against Greece and urged voters to follow him in rejecting the terms imposing more austerity in return for cash in the plebiscite on 5 July.
This was one of the most damaging and vengeful acts of political assault in modern history.
Drown's previous novel, "Plowing Up a Snake," shared the same geography, the same course of violent and vengeful acts, but without the comic leavening.
Specifically, after an ambush on April 9 in Jenin that killed 13 soldiers, it resorted to random, vengeful acts of terror involving civilians.
Politics aside, today marked the latest -- and perhaps most frightening -- episode in a sequence of terrorist acts or threats.
"Hey, if I was a puritan — " He grinned, apparently mentally flipping through a sequence of unpuritanical acts he had committed.
Even more musicians in the north are now leaving the country because they fear vengeful acts by the Malian Army, whom they accuse of discriminating against northern peoples.
Even more musicians in the north are leaving the country because they fear vengeful acts by the Malian Army, whom they accuse of discriminating against northern peoples.
