That post ignited a comment storm that opened my eyes to a vicious corporate power play.

FORBES: A Cautionary Tale: Friendship, Business Ethics, and Bad Breakups (Acts I and II)

Why, then, not put it out of the power of the vicious and the lawless to use us with cruelty and indignity with impunity?

FORBES: Women of the American Revolution Exercised Consumer Power

It says this would give police the power to confiscate vicious dogs that are unlicensed, "and hopefully we can save other family's suffering like we have gone through".

BBC: Jade Anderson

In an upper-class suburb of Sydney, in 1972, Elizabeth Hunter (Charlotte Rampling), an intelligent, vicious, rich old woman, very ill but never without awareness of her power, wills herself not to die.

NEWYORKER: The Eye of the Storm

Congress has seen other periods of overweening executive power (when Alexander Hamilton was treasury secretary, and when Richard Nixon was president) and vicious partisanship (in the 1890s and 1900s).

ECONOMIST: Lexington

Equally tricky Egyptian-sponsored talks had inched towards a power-sharing deal between Hamas and Fatah, too, presaging an end to two years of vicious partisanship.

ECONOMIST: Gaza and Hamas