But when he quarrelled with some of his relatives, they knew how to take the cruellest revenge - a pair of scissors in the night and it was gone.
When she falls in love with a non-Muslim colleague, her father and her tormented, sexually confused younger brother, Samir (Ryan Izay), take shocking revenge in the name of family honor.
Some privy to the process suspect that Lord Irvine is now reluctant to take the lead on the government's plans to reform the House of Lords, for fear of the revenge other ministers would take once he is the one with concrete proposals to defend.
The United States hopes the document, which has details on a new parliament and constitution, will allay fears of Alawites and other minority groups that the Sunnis leading the fight against al-Assad will grab all of the power and take revenge on al-Assad's supporters.
Payback started off simply enough as a an attempt to take revenge for copyright companies trying take down BitTorent site The Pirate Bay in the summer of 2010.
It said the Kenyan incursion was an act of war and it would take revenge.
We already know that the tomb is booby-trapped by all manner of ancient curses, and, soon enough, the massed ranks of special effects arrive to take revenge.
Al-Shabab, which controls much of southern and central Somalia, denies the allegation and says it views the incursion as an act of war and it will take revenge by attacking Kenya.
General Guei has told French military officials they must take President Bedie out of the country immediately for his own safety, suggesting that mutinous soldiers might want to take revenge against him.
Since the bombing of a Shia shrine in Samarra in February, Shia militias, abetted by the Shia-dominated government forces, have increasingly abandoned forbearance in the face of Sunni terrorism and started to take their revenge.
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Operation: Payback, the subset of the loose hacker group Anonymous that has vowed to take revenge on all who have censored or slighted WikiLeaks just shifted its sites to Visa.com, taking down the site instantly.
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While the savagery of "Savages" first emanates from the cartel, the story tracks the increasingly desperate measures that Chon and Ben take to secure the safety of the woman they adore, and to exact sweet revenge.
Indeed, there are even fears that, if Mr Taylor is convicted, his loyalists could take revenge against those who brought the case to trial in the first place, including members of the present government.
"When I joined the party, I never thought I would have this feeling: it's like I was a member of a gang and if I take a step back, there will be revenge, " she told the AFP news agency.
Many of Marquetalia's residents fled to the jungles, to take up arms and plan revenge.
But it his fear -- as the title of his new book, "The Last Generation: How Nature Will Take Her Revenge for Climate Change" (it is called "With Speed and Violence" in the U.S.), suggests -- that we still haven't fully realised the apocalyptic forces we have awoken and the reality of what is at stake if global warming continues untrammelled.
The decision was opposed by leaders of the Czech underground, who feared rightly that Hitler would take out on them his thirst for revenge.
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"The Coalition sees these heinous terrorist acts as an attempt to take revenge on the Turkish people and punish them for their honorable support for the Syrian people, including their welcoming of Syrian refugees who have fled the regime's crimes in their villages and cities, " it said.
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