Former General in Chief Winfield Scott wrote, "If he is a traitor I am a traitor, and we are all traitors," while Gen. George Meade believed Stone to be "the victim of political malice".
Perhaps this was because, ever since I was a child, my mother had spoken of my grandmother as a woman whose arteries had been injected with poison by life itself — a victim of the malice and treachery of other people.
Mr Litvinenko's friend Oleg Gordievsky, another former spy who defected to Britain, said his friend was a victim of "revenge and malice" of "evil forces" in Russia.
It cannot convincingly pretend, even to its central Asian friends and fellow travellers like Venezuela's Hugo Chávez, that it's a mere innocent victim of Washington's malice.
In the dark past, they argue, the Jew was the passive victim of an essentially irrational malice.
He has apparently felt undefended and vulnerable his entire adult life — a victim of other people's malice and ineptitude.
He became a victim of rancour and revenge and malice, of the forces of Russia.
The problem, Ms Booth argued, was that the English definition of malice provides no redress for victims of investigatory or prosecutorial maladministration.
Individuals will be able to appeal to their national data watchdogs if they are turned down.The court's desire to protect victims of misunderstanding and malice is understandable.
A CYNICAL abuser of human rights, or a victim of circumstance or indeed of misreporting, even malice?
In a more generous reading, the lateness of the tackle could be partially excused by Gough's inability to see when and where the ball had gone, while Murray's gesture was essentially one of frustration, an instant reaction that appeared to carry no hint of the sort of malice that might have resulted in serious harm to his victim.
