If fines are turned into restitution, society's interest has not been vindicated, because no penalty has been extracted.
"It was a pity to stay just a single season in Barcelona, but I can say I played for the greatest team in the world and there's no need to prove anything against them," continued Ibrahimovic, secure in the knowledge that he has long since been vindicated, what with no one really knowing whatever became of that strange little Massai guy.
Dr. Alpher and Dr. Herman had been vindicated, except that no one involved in the discovery so much as tipped a hat in their direction.
When NPR then effectively reversed itself by forcing the resignation of the executive who had fired him, anti-Muslim bigotry was resoundingly vindicated in America, no matter the intentions of the various players.
While Brooke noted that the Bonnard test was inflexible, he also considered the distinction between defamation and breach of confidentiality; while "confidentiality, once breached, is lost for ever", if a defamatory statement is taken to trial and the claimant wins, he or she is vindicated and suffers no lasting harm.
None of these developments stopped jubilant government supporters' from celebrating into the night in Syntagma Square in front of Parliament, waving Greek flags and chanting "No, no, no!" Tsipras was vindicated after gambling the future of his 5-month-old coalition government — and his country — in an all-or-nothing game of brinkmanship with Greece's creditors.
This vindicates the slogan "no causes in, no causes out" (Cartwright 1989, Ch. 2).
Trade sceptics and anti-globalists look at the same history and feel no less vindicated.
The third of Germans who think the country is overrun with foreigners feel vindicated, though there is no net immigration.
So long as that view is vindicated, there will be no reason to dial QE back up.
