Sentence examples for vendettas in from inspiring English sources

Often such conflicts took the form of vendettas, in which violence begets violence.

His illiterate mother spun mesmerising tales about families and vendettas in Luxor, "her paradise lost".

Lawlessness has mounted, as have vendettas in a city strewn with trash and suffering shortages of food and electricity.

In the absence of legal reform, he risks becoming a leader of the old stripe, who pursues vendettas in the name of fighting wrongdoers.

Blood feuds have been prevalent in other societies, like mafia vendettas in southern Italy and retaliatory violence between Shiite and Sunni families in Iraq.

Mr Putin and his proxies have been emboldened to invade foreign countries in no small part because they have been allowed to act with impunity to settle personal vendettas in foreign capitals.

INTERNET ink is already being spilt over "V for Vendetta", in which Natalie Portman plays a terrorist.

To some Indians, this incident seemed a legitimate vendetta in caste warfare.

What began as Gustavo III di Svezia in 1857 became Una vendetta in domino after revisions later in the year.

All were men, and all had seen the movie "V for Vendetta," in which the British holiday Guy Fawkes Day figures prominently.

The Nassau county executive, Thomas R. Suozzi, is carrying out an old personal vendetta in trying to oust an incumbent state legislator, according to a longtime Suozzi-watcher.