The day after, the director of central intelligence, George J. Tenet, told his people that the job was "to run to ground a vicious foe".
Roy, who has been working on her second novel in recent years, emerges in his thunderous indictment as a vicious foe of all those who "are fighting for prevention of unlawful and terrorist activities in the country".
But the complexities of the man fascinated him: Vichyist official and Resistance leader, statesman and schemer, loyal friend and vicious foe, intellectual and hedonist, defender of democracy and civil liberties, yet user and abuser of the very monarchical powers he had once so vehemently condemned.
People who are thinking in the group mode are loyal, disciplined and vicious against foes.
Kill enough people in a row and you'll be able to call in some bombs to be dropped from above or some vicious dogs to be unleashed against your foes.
Local governments, often under pressure from the U.S., deployed its military forces and the terrorists groups that emerged from these communities responded in kind with more violence, entering into a vicious cycle of revenge between these two foes.
In this tragic yet beautifully rendered vision, friend and foe, right and wrong, good and evil, blur into a vicious cycle of survival, vengeance, and profiteering -- all exacerbated by a cynical American military policy.
Reminiscing airily about her old friend Grace Kelly, barking obscenely at childhood foes, drifting into a sullen stupor, snapping back to life with yawps of vicious glee, Kiki is a beacon of insanity in a world that may finally be coming around to her point of view.
Nonviolence allowed the leaders to expose the villainy of their foes aggressively, to make their enemies' sins work against them as they were exposed in ever more vicious forms.
The presence of the erudite father-of-two in a grim London jail for 10 days before his release on stringent bail conditions – and the ensuing triangular diplomatic and political row between Britain, Bosnia and Serbia – is proof of the extent to which the vicious war fought nearly two decades ago in the former Yugoslavia remains a source of bitter division and anger between its former foes.
