How To Use Internecine In A Sentence

  • But if you believe that the real fight for power today is an internecine one taking place within the Labour Party rather than between political parties, it seems more than feasible.
  • British subjectivity posed by the American crisis is that the people most like them not only take up arms in internecine strife but form an alliance with the Projection, Patriotism, Surrogation: Handel in Calcutta
  • Centuries ago the Old Empire fell to an internecine civil war, destroyed by the sorcerers known as poets, wielding the powers of ideas given human form and volition, the andat. A Shadow in Summer by Daniel Abraham
  • They weren't worried about the Americans as much as they were, possibly, about internecine warfare.
  • Once self-sufficient and an exporter of food, it has turned into a country dependent on aid and therefore prey to the kind of internecine warfare which has laid waste to far too many parts of Africa in the post-colonial period.
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  • But those internecine debates within the Social Security faction are, at the moment, every bit as irrelevant as the internecine debates within the phase out faction.
  • The propulsive contours Liszt assigns to the left hand all but vanished, thus attenuating texture and the work itself of its internecine dramas.
  • The deliberately thin plot involving a missing spy satellite thingy and internecine warfare between American intelligence agencies can be totally ignored by adults and children alike and the movie's all the better for it.
  • Investors lost about $200 billion as the Internet bubble collapsed, executives at AOL Time Warner engaged in internecine warfare, and the Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission challenged the company’s accounting practices. AOL and Time Warner to officially split
  • No need to apologise, or explain, he's a charmer who lives off his wits, has a serious gambling problem and prefers to observe the internecine nature of romance, rather than participate.
  • The drug trade of today multiplies the amount of cowboys and petty criminals whose internecine warfare for control of turf tends to bring crime to our doorsteps.
  • The internecine struggles over budgeting between the services is as intense as the battles between defence and social welfare programmes.
  • As he waged internecine war with significant elements of his playing staff, the Welshman wondered if he would make it into a second season. Times, Sunday Times
  • Such an outcome would threaten any standards for weblog API's and syndication far more than internecine struggles within the existing weblog community ever could.
  • an internecine feud among proxy holders
  • Her concerns range from shocking acts of internecine slaughter to the emotional loneliness of the war reporter.
  • No one looks forward to the prospect of internecine warfare at so unpropitious a political moment.
  • Or, alternately, it's just internecine warfare within the administration, and therefore shouldn't be taken seriously.
  • The U.S. Middle East peace effort ran into the buzz saw of Hamas-Fatah internecine strife combined with a Palestinian inability to abandon the narrative of victimhood and vilification of Israel.
  • The internecine struggles over budgeting between the services is as intense as the battles between defence and social welfare programmes.
  • A similar problem faces the USA in the aftermath of the war in Afghanistan - how to deal with those degenerate elements of the Northern Alliance for whom internecine warfare is a way of life.
  • Two things stand out as central conclusions to be drawn from the internecine wrangling within the Conservative Party and the response to it.
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  • To be sure, such decisions will not be easy; they could spark internecine struggle within the military.
  • Com and I persist in talking about this internecine warfare going on over there because the participants in that electronic brouhaha are so personally involved in the struggle over the question of whether of not the LCS should continue to exist and if so in what new incarnation, that there needs to be a place to discuss this issue unsoiled by partisan chatter. The Lake Chapala Society
  • The proper meaning of internecine is murderous, destructive. On Dictionaries
  • Indeed, to listen to some people, it seemed as if they were indulging in a spurt of internecine warfare. THE LAST PARTY: Britpop, Blair and the demise of English rock
  • Both networks limited their coverage of critiques and dissent to internecine schisms within these traditions.
  • No one looks forward to the prospect of internecine warfare at so unpropitious a political moment.
  • Why this happened is not exactly known, but warfare and internecine conflict caused by a rising population may be at least partly to blame.
  • Blogger's financial woes and internecine struggles were a soap-opera that the whole blogosphere watched avidly, often meanspiritedly. Boing Boing: February 16, 2003 - February 22, 2003 Archives
  • Set in twelfth century Sicily think saracens, crusades, holy wars, internecine strife, monasteries usually enough there to latch onto but I have truly floundered with this one. 54 entries from September 2006
  • As ever with the writer's material, it's an obsessive story involving police corruption, internecine strife and casual violence.
  • Clerical internecine strife and electoral machination under Anne caused another tidal wave of Whig anticlerical legislation in the 1730s.
  • In some cases, these articles are motivated by internecine disputes within the American right.
  • After three decades of internecine warfare, bombings, retaliatory killings and mutual suspicion, those involved decided to seek a lasting political solution.
  • By rewriting internecine butchery as ‘reassuring fratricide,’ Shakespeare engages in a politics of collective forgetting that complicates official memory.
  • The photographs reveal that there is space for laughter, for flippancy, for beauty and fun in a country beset with internecine and identity-based troubles.
  • But he also noted a blood lust peculiar to internecine warfare.
  • They appear to be tied up in a political knot while dealing with the Sri Lankan government, which is itself locked in internecine party warfare.
  • The real, lasting damage of such internecine strife is a collapse of faith in the institutional fabric.
  • There is certainly conflict of an internecine nature going on within me at the moment.
  • But as we contemplate these bitter internecine struggles we should not be too unsympathetic or complacent.
  • Needless to say, after more than a decade of internecine strife, all this faddish Conservative unity is somewhat fragile, not to say illusory.
  • These differences created centrifugal pressures toward internecine conflict that factionalized the movement into disparate groups.
  • The Prime Minister's unprecedented decision to let the British people and the world know he will not fight for a fourth term in office threatens to engulf Labour in even greater internecine warfare.
  • There were internecine struggles within NATO (as there were in the Warsaw Pact), knowledge of which adds to our understanding of the complexity of the Cold War.
  • This is not just at internecine war within the TV industry.
  • So is the saga of internecine strife behind the luxurious façades of the Guggenheim museum empire. Times, Sunday Times
  • Or perhaps such racism is an echo of internecine protohuman forest warfare. The Fruit Hunters
  • If it did, the internecine warfare would be catastrophic.
  • This sort of internecine nastiness is all too common in law firms, investment partnerships, and other businesses that depend on their owners' harmony.
  • But, this time, he was unable to reconcile internecine squabbles.
  • To try to cut down on internecine warfare, Mr Florio oversaw annual meetings at which he encouraged publishers to work together.
  • Secondly, it could plunge the country into another round of internecine fighting and, thirdly, it could put the US at odds with the UN.
  • Robertson, meanwhile, is trying to kill the image of a bank famed for its stability and clean succession-planning being rocked by internecine warfare. Surprise on the menu for HSBC's chief executive Michael Geoghegan
  • In a fiercely tribal society, with traditions of internecine warfare that lasted at least until ten years ago, defensible towns and houses were vital.
  • The fear is of a repetition of the 1992 events when groups which now make up the Northern Alliance captured Kabul from Afghanistan's last pro-Moscow government but then wrecked it with internecine warfare.
  • We are fascinated by the internecine warfare at Colina.
  • When I saw you use the word internecine in reference to possible infighting at the Whitehouse, it reminded me of this Word History article. Firedoglake » Somebody Had Their Wheaties…
  • If you talked of hard-money, you were denounced as a Benton bullionist; if you talked of credit, you were called a Whig banker, plotting to devour the poor; and the calmest phrases of science were turned into the shibboleths of an internecine warfare. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
  • Therefore, it seems reasonable to propose that for male hippies as well as male residents of the Iowa frontier, tensions expressed through the manhood act — counterbalanced, at times, by the restraining hands of men like Murcott — dissipated some of the emotional energy that might otherwise have found expression in internecine violence. 48 Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83
  • However, they should remember that the last time a party leader was thrown out by her own MPs, that party suffered internecine warfare for over a decade and slumped in the polls.
  • Are we not watching with great interest the little internecine fights that are already developing within their caucus?
  • This work's main emphasis is on the bitter internecine struggle that raged in the liberal community between 1945-48, when it split on the divisive issues of relations with Russia and the feasibility of working with domestic Communists to achieve desirable goals. Jim Tuck's homepage, biography and published works
  • Those words are just code for internecine warfare and I'm not interested.
  • The country was on the threshold of a vicious internecine conflict. The Times Literary Supplement
  • The whole episode has drawn attention again to internecine strife in the ruling party.
  • Tudor The Tudors brought to a close years of internecine strife when King Henry VII ended the Wars of the Roses between the rival houses of York and Lancaster.
  • And the Conservatives have no stomach for an ideological fight, only for internecine warfare.
  • As if it wasn't bad enough that they went through last year with only two wins in 12 matches, now they find the game's credibility further threatened by internecine warfare behind the scenes.
  • But in spite of the fact that internecine warfare is fun to watch, it rarely bodes well for the country.
  • Gun law, robbery, summary execution and internecine fighting have become the disorder of the day.
  • Such hopelessness focuses a movement inward, leading to the kind of internecine fights around identity politics and issue positions that frequently divide the left. Sally Kohn: Force or Fringe: United States Social Forum Vs. Tea Party
  • Invasions from southern India, combined with internecine strife, pushed Sinhalese kingdoms southward.
  • But it was destroyed by doubters and the internecine strife between Edinburgh and Glasgow.
  • Elite groups are engaged in an internecine struggle for control of the continent's strategic resources.
  • I'm familiar with feminist politics here at home over the past several decades, and they can get pretty wrangy at times (indeed the word "internecine" has come to mind on occasion), so I'm not surprised that there are widely divergent, even antagonistic, factions within the Afghan women's movement. Trash talk

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