Whether he acted out of spite or necessity, the effect has been the same.
They did so partly out of spite, partly to slow down the allied advance.
According to geographical encyclopaedia, The Gazetteer of Scotland, the property became known as the Castle of Spite.
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Out of a mixture of spite and folly, their coalition colleagues in Queensland had urged voters to put Mrs Hanson's party ahead of Labor in their second-preference votes.
The accused have been charged with criminal offenses including theft, aggravated theft and damage, since the luggage that they were not able to open was sometimes damaged out of spite, police said.
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Lawrence Osborne's book The Accidental Connoisseur, however, seems written more or less out of spite for everyone and everything associated with wine, as he searches to better define the notion of taste.
How can they possibly take Israel's behaviour as anything but an act of spite against them, the living - a gesture to remind them that Israel controls not only how they live, but even how they die?
That Florence Hartmann, Ms Del Ponte's former spokeswoman, is now on trial at the tribunal, accused of contempt of court for writing about the same issue and allegedly revealing its confidential decisions, is clearly absurd and smacks of spite.
And so they'd gone in spite of the expense, in spite of the sadness and shame he felt each time he returned to Calcutta, in spite of the fact that the older his children grew, the less they wanted to go.
Decisions by Switzerland and New Zealand to impose targeted sanctions on members of Mr Mugabe's inner circle, and Denmark's ending of aid and the closure of its embassy in Harare, could easily be dismissed as acts of spite by white supremacists.
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Depending on whom you believe, Tripp did what she did in hopes of landing a tell-all book deal, or out of revenge against her own adulterous father, or out of spite for the libertines who took over from the Bush Administration, for which she had worked as a secretary--or all of the above.
Overall, this year's Oscars were - in spite of everything, in spite of a terrible national economy - I thought it was a perfectly acceptable ceremony.
According to Clara, from that day on nothing was the same, in spite of the reconciliation, in spite of their trip to a town on the coast, a rather sad and dull trip, as it turned out.
In spite of their exhaustion, in spite of the fact that they had worked themselves into a state of total fatigue, they still wanted to keep fighting on for their fellow brothers and sisters trapped in the rubble.
And in spite of their anger, and in spite of their real fear at what is happening in our country, they are protesting in the only right and helpful way, peacefully and lawfully.
In spite of such horrors, and in spite of such feats as bicycling over 500km in under 72 hours to find a radio operator, Captain Wake was having the time of her life.
In America this Thanksgiving, in spite of our confounding political system, in spite of our own troubles dealing with the recession, unemployment, and the myriad other issues facing this nation, we can at least be thankful that we are not Europe.
They come to that conclusion presumably because revenue from the sale of Sun hardware has declined since the acquisition, and they lock on to that opinion in spite of the fact that Oracle executives at the time of the deal said they were going to eliminate unprofitable hardware products, low-value hardware products, and no-future hardware products in spite of the inevitable revenue impacts.
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Council leader David Parker said the authority was "absolutely committed" to ensuring a high level of services in spite of the "ongoing funding pressures".
We were stunned to discover that fewer than one in 20 had any evidence of success in spite of their belief that change was crucial.
So you could rely on the future good will of EA in spite of the disdain their actions show currently, but I certainly wouldn't put money on them putting in that additional effort.
These moms and others I met maintain their sense of humor in spite of the difficulty of watching kids grow up without their dads, having to explain why birthdays have been missed, why there's a war on.
Pic believes her success comes because of, not in spite of, being a woman.
An injured Mr Kerry fished him out of the river in spite of the bullets flying about them.
Europeans are not the descendants of Neanderthals - in spite of what you may think of the person in the office next door.
Social still carries the trust of the masses in spite of the handful of false accounts on any social network one can encounter online.
Our system of government has stood the test of time not in spite of but because it is uniquely drawn from the priorities of our own citizens, and them alone.
The Saudis, like the Palestinians wish for the West to renew its underwriting of the PA in spite of the fact that it no longer makes any bones about being a terror regime.
Pessimists note that Mr Cardoso failed to pass many of these reforms in spite of having a big majority in Congress, and that Lula's parliamentary alliance, a collection of leftist and populist groups, will be in a minority.
Jones uses eight years of data from ITG to show how this dropped significantly with the introduction of automation, spiked during the crisis of 2008, and either because of, or in spite of, the rise of HFT, has dropped by 2011 to near the pre-crisis lows.
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