Vengeance
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Let the
vengeance
begin!
Though a tale of vengeance, it has long, boring passages of puerile, pretentious dialog and the action sequences are unconvincing.
Based on a comic by late Kazuo Kamimura and Kazuo Koike, Shurayukihime is a story about
vengeance
and rebellion.
But, over the last year, China’s imbalances returned with a
vengeance.
And now the chickens are coming home to roost with a
vengeance
(if chickens could be vengeful).
Europe’s strategic and normative interests have thus re-emerged with a vengeance; in fact, Putin has managed, almost singlehandedly, to invigorate NATO with a new sense of purpose.
Yet, engaged in a war driven by fury and vengeance, the Israelis are now focused again on a manhunt for gang chieftains, targeted killings of Hamas squads, and the arrest of its political leaders, not on peace overtures.
Its focus is not on
vengeance
and retribution, but on “restorative justice,” a principle Archbishop Desmond Tutu used to describe South Africa’s transition to majority rule after apartheid.
Indeed, with even Macron pursuing it, the schwarze Null has come back with a
vengeance.
The fact that his family had fled India upon Partition gave him an additional chip on his shoulder: it was widely said that he saw relations with India as a series of opportunities to wreak
vengeance
for what his family had suffered in the refugee upheavals of 1947.
That supposedly buried past was always there, poised to erupt with a
vengeance
once the economic miracle slowed or stopped.
When the Greek crisis raised the specter of default, financial markets reacted with a vengeance, relegating all heavily indebted eurozone members to the status of a Third World country over-extended in a foreign currency.
Last week’s bruising battle over the medium-term future of the Union’s budget has confirmed that verdict with a
vengeance.
Beginning with the sharp monetary-policy easing that occurred following the 1987 stock-market crash, monetary policy has been used aggressively in the face of every economic downturn (or even anticipated downturn) ever since – in 1991, 1998, 2001, and, with a vengeance, following the events of 2007.
One hopes that Egypt’s defeated Islamists will move from the politics of
vengeance
to a soul-searching process that leads to the recognition that democracy is not a zero-sum game in which the winner takes all.
A debt crisis that erupted in Greece, the eurozone’s outer periphery, has migrated with a
vengeance
towards the core, so much so that the survival of the eurozone itself is at stake.
Moreover, income and wealth inequality is rising again: poorer households are at greater risk of unemployment, falling wages, or reductions in hours worked, all leading to lower labor income, whereas on Wall Street outrageous bonuses have returned with a
vengeance.
The Arab public is fully aware of the close alliances that existed between the West and the now-defunct despotic regimes, yet they have exhibited no desire for
vengeance
or retribution towards the West.
Change without
vengeance
– which did not mean without considering the past, just without retribution.
It is only a matter of time before jihadists begin to seek
vengeance
against Russia, rather than the West.
The UN Security Council, backed by the US, Russia, and the other major powers, should step in with peacekeepers to restore Syrian sovereignty and urgent public services, while blocking attempts at
vengeance
by the Assad regime against former rebels or their civilian supporters.
Still, one worries, because the standard economic models are notoriously bad at capturing the macroeconomic effects of uncertainty, which trade wars create with a
vengeance.
The young responded with a
vengeance
to Sarkozy’s provocation.
Indeed, they can create an all-consuming desire for
vengeance
that overwhelms more sober foreign-policy motivations.
Reason in the Age of TrumpMADRID – In the classical Greek tragedy The Bacchae, the god Dionysus, powered by a thirst for vengeance, battles the inflexible and closed-minded King Pentheus for the soul of Thebes.
When faced by a US bent upon bloody vengeance, an acute institutional sense of survival sent the military establishment scurrying to join the US-led coalition and take up arms against its former creation, the Taliban and their Amir-ul-Momineen (leader of the pious).
Faced by a United States bent upon bloody vengeance, Pakistan’s military establishment scurried to join the US-led coalition and take up arms against its own creation, the Taliban.
Modest progress has been either sabotaged or insufficient, even as thousands of innocent people, both in the Middle East and beyond, have fallen victim to violence, hatred, and
vengeance.
Germany embraced the peace dividend with a
vengeance.
A social and political correction was necessary, and it has occurred with a
vengeance
unique to France.
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