Sentence examples for vindictiveness from inspiring English sources

Indeed watching the prime minister singling out unemployed youngsters for uniquely punitive measures while pretending it is for their own good, cheered on by a gang of braying chums, it looks less like the behaviour of a national statesman and more like the petty vindictiveness of a schoolyard bully.

To be sure, there's something of a parallel between the fable of IRS's vindictiveness against Tea Party groups and NSA surveillance.

Forty years ago this week the New York Times began publishing the Pentagon Papers, the largest leak of classified documents in American history until WikiLeaks came along.Julian Assange's outfit is Barack Obama's problem, and though the current administration lacks the vindictiveness and criminality of the Nixon White House, it has pursued leakers with just as much vigour.

Tales of bullying, vindictiveness and inhumanity abound.In some ways, though, the most depressing vignettes are the less eye-catching ones.

He denied knowing about the affair, but the vindictiveness displayed by his staff may dent his popularity.

Buddhism and Christianity put particular emphasis on forgiveness, though that doesn't stop Buddhists or Christians behaving with vindictiveness.

Some suggest he has created a political culture that invites such corruption and vindictiveness.

The Republicans now seem keen to avoid any such appearance of vindictiveness in Mr Clinton's case.The Nixon near-impeachment left a different sour taste.

Her vindictiveness, like that of her political rival Khaleda Zia, is legendary.

The mudslinging in the press says more about the petty vindictiveness of foreign-ministry bureaucrats than about Mrs Tanaka's particular shortcomings.

The hold-up was blamed on a muddle over paperwork although some Russia-watchers suspected it was a calculated Kremlin snub to the Republican Mr Lugar.Mr Obama now plays down the episode, but his first-hand experience of the Russian bureaucracy's capacity for at best capricious incompetence and at worst vindictiveness could yet prove telling.