But the prosecution of Mr Drake and others like him smacks more of vindictiveness and message-sending than justice.

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It follows, then, that the appearance of pettiness, vindictiveness and defensiveness are just as bad as the real thing.

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But Kenya's Standard warns against vindictiveness and says lessons must be learnt.

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"It shows the AG's vindictiveness, " says Lim in characteristically plain language.

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Mr McTiernan's attorney Oliver Diaz said in a statement that the movie director was a victim of "prosecutorial vindictiveness" and planned to appeal against his conviction.

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Before the appeal against release was announced, Mr Loach said such a move by the Swedish authorities would "show there is some vindictiveness that goes beyond this particular case".

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Forbes first published his American business and financial magazine in 1917, the vindictiveness of Versailles and an increasingly adversarial approach to trade contributed to even greater carnage come World War II.

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