Sure, there could be a vindictive, terrible principal who unfairly fires good teachers for bad reasons, but the assumption is that a school with that problem will fail in the marketplace due to underqualified teachers and bad morale.
To many people, the move seemed a vindictive attack on friends and former employees.
Yet before the thing was over, he was indicted by a vindictive prosecutor.
The Frenchman was not the first, nor the last, outsider to feel both the allure and the vindictive sting of a modern Greece that manages in an uncanny way to be much more, and much less, than the sum of its parts.
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.
Or, maybe Senator Fitzgerald is just a really vindictive guy who wants to make the Democrats pay for what he perceives as their sins.
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He described Mr Rizzi, who is no longer WNO musical director and who did not give evidence at the tribunal, as a "vindictive prima donna".
He pledged his party to fighting Labour's right-to-roam legislation in the Lords and decried plans to ban fox hunting as a "vindictive" attack on country sports.
Plans for 14 further private prosecutions - described by a lawyer as "vindictive" - have now been dropped.
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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If Terry refuses to sign a joint return, does it mean that Terry is being mean and vindictive?
An outsider in a Wasp enclave, Kazan developed an appetite for revenge and its corollary, vindictive triumph.
Supposedly part of a clever campaign by Mr Mandelson to rehabilitate himself, it documents the vain and vindictive emotions that have long made the relations between Mr Blair, Gordon Brown, the chancellor, and Mr Mandelson into a vicious triangle.
Elsewhere, the hounding of Muhammad Yunus, a Nobel laureate and founder of the Grameen Bank who briefly flirted with politics, was vindictive.
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