(n.) The act of one who murders or kills his own brother.
(n.) One who murders or kills his own brother.
Example Sentences:
(1) He added that some postings were "rhetoric that brings back memories of tragic, fratricidal, factional conflicts in the 1990s that cost the lives of tens of thousands of civilians".
(2) Andrew Cooper, Conservative peer: ‘It is no accident that Fallon used Miliband’s political fratricide as his simile’ Facebook Twitter Pinterest Andrew Cooper.
(3) The fratricidal fighting erupted several weeks before a much-anticipated detente scheduled for 22 January in Geneva, adding another layer of complexity to a war that long ago ceased to have two clear-cut protagonists.
(4) Referring to Cain's fratricide, the authors investigate the origin of guilt.
(5) Though Ed Miliband has been happy to admit past Labour errors on Murdoch and other matters, his appetite for political fratricide may be sated.
(6) So both sides in this fratricidal power struggle are left weakened.
(7) Of course, it is no accident that the defence secretary, Michael Fallon, chose to use Miliband’s political fratricide as his simile.
(8) Tragically, there is the possibility that 'fratricide' may have been involved."
(9) Look around the Tory party today, and chaos reigns; Britain feels more socially fratricidal than I have ever known it.
(10) For the radical socialist left in Scotland, this is the continuation of a fratricidal nightmare.
(11) Rather it is that religious prejudice, once awakened, is destablising, fratricidal, and difficult for anyone to control.
(12) He was a good lad.” I remarked what an extraordinary testament it was to the mindless, fratricidal nature of the conflict that he was mourning the death of one of his captors.
(13) George Clooney's political drama The Ides of March is about a Democratic primary campaign unfolding in the key state of Ohio, in an atmosphere heavy with fratricidal betrayal behind the scenes.
(14) The speed and extent of peptide-induced changes in the appearance of CTLs suggest that the destruction may be due primarily to self-recognition and self-destruction of individual CTLs (suicide) rather than to the destruction of some CTLs by others of the same clone in the same culture (fratricide).
(15) After being at each other's throats for years in fratricidal wars, we're now all culturally European."
(16) There was talk of fratricide, and comparisons were made with Cain and Abel.
Homicide
Definition:
(v. t.) The killing of one human being by another.
(v. t.) One who kills another; a manslayer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rates for homicide have remained steady and have a distinct profile.
(2) Blunt homicide predominated amongst White females, who were substantially older than the Coloured and African subjects.
(3) Nevertheless, it is the black male group between the ages of 25 and 34 years that bears the brunt of both suicide and homicide.
(4) "They have sown confusion in police departments about when to make arrests, made it more difficult for prosecutors to bring charges in cases of deadly violence and, most importantly, they have been responsible for a major increase in so-called 'justifiable homicides.'
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Global trade unions called the collapse ‘mass industrial homicide’, while Vogue magazine described it as ‘tragedy on an epic scale’.
(6) fbi justified homicide chart Academics and specialists have long been aware of flaws in the FBI numbers, which are based on voluntary submissions by local law enforcement agencies of paperwork known as supplementary homicide reports.
(7) On Thursdays the black male-white male ratio for homicide was 1.43 and for suicide, 1.26.
(8) Two remarks from previous analyses are then made: the underestimation of the factor of depression in the homicidal act; and the need for reforming the practice of penal psychiatric survey.
(9) Violence has replaced communicable diseases as the primary cause of juvenile mortality and, currently, over 77% of adolescent deaths are caused by accidents, suicide, and homicide.
(10) CeaseFire placed two interrupters on the ground, and in 2004 there were no homicides recorded at all.
(11) Suicide was more common on Mondays; homicide on Saturdays and Sundays.
(12) This violent potential was reflected by the presence among the alcoholics involved of more past and present antisocial traits, a higher rating on the Nicol's scale of violence, more offences committed against the person and homicidal behaviour.
(13) As a result, the political situation is unlikely to change in the failing state of 8.5 million people, which is home to the world's highest homicide rate and a transit point for much of the South American cocaine heading to the US.
(14) If there are features typical of suicide, the medico-legal analysis of the pathomorphological findings essentially may contribute to the differentiation from homicidal injuries.
(15) The FBI’s “justifiable homicides” database is considered the best measure of cop killings in the US, but even the attorney general, Eric Holder, called the lack of comprehensive numbers “unacceptable” last month .
(16) Although the causative role of mental illness in relation to homicide remains a controversial and debatable issue, recent studies indicate that a significant number of homicidal adults suffer from serious mental illness, more specifically psychosis.
(17) The "work" includes cases in which he believes the Mexican army is responsible for some of the plentiful homicides and disappearances.
(18) Every one centred on the same group of middle-aged, mostly unprepossessing policemen in Stockholm's National Homicide Department.
(19) Second, we used detailed data from police files to examine the same associations for a subset of homicides in south central Los Angeles.
(20) In unnatural death cases the BAC under 0.05% was found in 64% of the suicides, 62% of the accidents, 54% of the homicides and 51% of the drug intoxications.