Sentence examples for spite because from inspiring English sources

This policy is sheer spite, because these jobs don't exist.

Armstrong claimed Landis had done so out of spite because he had not been hired by Armstrong after Landis returned from a two-year doping suspension.

Bullfight fans claimed many Catalan nationalist deputies had voted out of spite, because the fighting bull is an emblem of Spain – where it is known as the "national fiesta" – rather than of Catalonia.

Mr. Romaine countered that Mr. Hines was a disgruntled former official acting out of spite because he did not get the clerk's job himself, a charge that Mr. Hines denied.

Instead, it looks as if we're going to see blue-state residents reaping the benefits of a functional health care system, while red-state residents are denied many of those benefits, for what looks like no better reason than mean-spirited spite — because what's going on is, indeed, mean-spirited spite.

An Austrian woman shredded her 950,ooo euro ($1.02 million) fortune in spite because she didn't want her family to have it, AFP reports. .

In spite, and because, of his reputation as "the hermit of Hull", he was almost universally admired for the formal elegance of his constructions, the memorable beauty of his phrasing, and the candour of his gaze.

"He's not that kind of person that does it because of spite or because he wants the attention".

Except that it is not "in spite of" but "because of".

Coupland clearly loves his characters, in spite and because of their faults.

By the end, in spite and because of everything that was happening, no one wanted to leave.