Sentences with phrase «act out of spite»

Resist the urge to act out of spite.

An additional caution can be extracted from the decision: in - house counsel who appear motivated primarily by financial gain or act out of spite may be denied compensation notwithstanding how instrumental they may have been in blowing the whistle and saving taxpayers significant dollars.

Animals don't act out of spite or revenge, so it won't help to give your cat special privileges in the hope that she'll start using the litter box again.

Please remember — cats do not act out of spite, and any behavior change can be a sign of pain or another health problem.

Did the veteran FBI hand act out of spite after not being made FBI Director despite serving 30 years, and being second in command to the legendary J Edgar Hoover?

But the new study, published online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, finds that when players start out using multiple different strategies, by making fair or unfair offers, and rejecting or accepting unfair offers, some will act out of spite.

It's not that Democrats believe the GOP never acts out of spite.

So you approve of an inst.itution of higher learning acting out of spite like a bratty 4 - year old??

In one large survey, 66 % of cat owners thought their cat acted out of spite.1

It is vital to understand that a dog exhibiting symptoms of separation anxiety including destruction, house - soiling, and whining or barking is not acting out of spite or boredom.

Not exact matches

Asked if the government would use the Parliament Act to force reform through in spite of Lords opposition, Mr Straw replied: «You can never rule it out.»

She acted out of jealousy and spite, but grew to regret it.

They say that Fluffy acts out of love or concern, that Rascal soiled the rug out of spite, that Ranger barks at the mailman because he hates the mailman, or that Mickey cringes because he is afraid of being smacked.

Dogs are not acting this way out of spite, this is a way for them to tell you something isn't quite right.

If the latter, it would be very hard to argue that the act was not «sexual abuse», but if the former, the counter-argument could be «I thought it was funny» or «I hated her and did it out of spite».

Most enablers all too often act out of weakness rather than spite.