Spain will feel betrayed and will see the EU as inflexible, incompetent and vindictive.
They have been especially vindictive towards those Tamils who have refused to toe their line.
They contend that Ehrlich is being vindictive by insisting on the full amount of the judgment.
To many people, the move seemed a vindictive attack on friends and former employees.
"But I don't think I'd be vindictive if they went for the job, " he says.
The Italian conductor was branded a "vindictive prima donna" at the employment tribunal in Cardiff.
Instead, he said, he was the victim of a "vindictive" campaign of union bullying.
The message of the vindictive attack seemed to be that the Tamils had nothing to celebrate.
Mr Starr was vindictive, and the Republicans in Congress were merely out to get the president.
Our increasingly vindictive, punitive intolerance, mixed with public piety, ruins lives, and serves no public good.
In power, their rulers were as autocratic and unprincipled as General Musharraf, and more vindictive.
An outsider in a Wasp enclave, Kazan developed an appetite for revenge and its corollary, vindictive triumph.
Plans for 14 further private prosecutions - described by a lawyer as "vindictive" - have now been dropped.
Mr Cameron is unlikely to be so stupid as to stoke Scottish enmity with slights or vindictive cuts.
If Terry refuses to sign a joint return, does it mean that Terry is being mean and vindictive?
Hard to be phlegmatic when the cards are stacked and the capricious gods are pissed and feeling vindictive.
Yet before the thing was over, he was indicted by a vindictive prosecutor.
Especially during times of economic hardship, layoffs leave people angry and sometimes vindictive.
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Mr Larijani, another rival of Mr Ahmadinejad, called the response ugly and vindictive, the conservative Iranian news agency Mehr reported.
"I became, in Lance's words, 'bitter' and 'vindictive' and 'jealous, '" she said in an affidavit included in the USADA report.
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The Tories have called this measure vindictive, but their natural allies in the countryside pressure groups are happy with it.
He has suggested he is being targeted by senior island officials as part of a "very vindictive political witch hunt".
Speaking at the time, Mr Scargill said the leadership at the NUM in Yorkshire had taken "vindictive action" against him.
Iran's censors are more flexible than is often supposed, but they can be imperious, quixotic and, on occasion, pointlessly vindictive.
"We can't believe the tribunal can be so vindictive, " said Owen, head of the consortium about to take over the club.
The union said the "spiteful and vindictive" suspension was linked to a bullying complaint Ms Griffiths lodged against a senior official.
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Did Steinbrenner Jr. put you up to this, he has been known to be bitterly cranky and vindictive despite his young age?
Elsewhere, the hounding of Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel laureate and founder of the Grameen Bank who briefly flirted with politics, was vindictive.
Critics said Mr Mallon's strategy of cracking down on petty crime and targeting known criminals was confrontational, vindictive and liable to abuse.
Most of these are moderate by instinct but capable of being vindictive.
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