(a.) Involving, or accompanied by, mutual slaughter; mutually destructive.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Arab League warned of a "disastrous outcome" to internecine fighting that has been waged on and off for more than six months.
(2) Seems to me, there isn't quite a Slumdog or a King's Speech this year to grab the popular British attention, and we don't yet have the internecine drama of, say, a race boiling down to Avatar vs Hurt Locker .
(3) Paul Sonne (@PaulSonne) Seems like the blame game, internecine warfare amongst the rebels might have just been stepped up a notch.
(4) Rather, Rauf’s severance from the Taliban seems to be proof of a widening internecine struggle within the Afghan militant opposition.
(5) Labour progressives might find it all too easy to dismiss these events as a fortuitous bout of internecine warfare on the right.
(6) Either way, it is feared that internecine conflict is paralysing the party that has dominated South Africa since the dawn of democracy 17 years ago.
(7) Such internecine struggles between militant groups may seem esoteric to casual observers.
(8) The committee said successive federation chairmen have become "enmired in interminable internecine power-struggles that would not have been out of place in a medieval court".
(9) The spat over whether the education department has diverted £400m of its budget away from local authority schools into Gove's pet free schools programme is essentially an internecine one between the coalition parties.
(10) Winnie's enthusiasm for violence, even in the internecine struggle between anti-apartheid activists, is not glossed over, and nor is her apparent enthusiasm for "necklacing" – a sadistic method of execution in which the victim is bound with a rubber tyre, doused with petrol and burned to death.
(11) They allege a lack of respect and tolerance, sustained and ongoing to the point that successive chairs of the organisation have found themselves "enmired in interminable, internecine power-struggles which would not have been out of place in a medieval court".
(12) What began as classic congressional deadlock between a Republican-dominated House and a Democratic-controlled Senate has become an internecine dispute between the Tea Party movement and more moderate Republicans.
(13) The police admit failing to consider that the killings might have been racially motivated, and for a long time they were viewed as individual incidents, the consequence of internecine strife within Germany’s Turkish community.
(14) Along with charges of cronyism and patronage, the ANC is fractured by internecine warfare .
(15) In March of that year, his righthand man in Sicily, Salvo Lima, was murdered by the mafia in what was seen as an internecine dispute (Lima was also the link between Andreotti and the mafia).
(16) It had wealth, was near Europe, had neighbours who were headed in the same direction, and it’s people had not, unlike Bosnia, for example, fought against each other in internecine civil war.” He adds, “This is what is so tragic about the situation today.” This article appeared in Guardian Weekly , which incorporates material from the Washington Post
(17) Iannucci and his team put together a tightly disciplined cast of energetic improvisers to portray the back-stabbing, internecine world of US politics.
(18) Tom Watson, the frontrunner in the Labour deputy leadership contest, will say on Monday that plans by supporters of Corbyn to force every Labour MP to face a reselection battle would amount to a “charter for internecine strife”.
(19) Having lived through an era of internecine struggle, it will be perhaps cathartic for both the brothers and their party to demonstrate that fraternity is still possible however close and tortured the election outcome.
(20) Corbyn atom Members of rival political parties that stand candidates against Labour are not allowed to join, but some MPs complain that veterans of its bitter internecine struggles in the 1980s, some of them allied to banned groups, are involved in the current battles.
Pernicious
Definition:
(a.) Having the quality of injuring or killing; destructive; very mischievous; baleful; malicious; wicked.
(a.) Quick; swift (to burn).
Example Sentences:
(1) To investigate the possibility that an abnormality of gastric emptying exists in duodenal ulcer and to determine if such an abnormality persists after ulcer healing, scintigraphic gastric emptying measurements were undertaken in 16 duodenal ulcer patients before, during, and after therapy with cimetidine; in 12 patients with pernicious anemia, and in 12 control subjects.
(2) Urinary excretion of (60)Co radioactivity in pernicious anemia patients after oral administration of (60)Co-vitamin B(12) bound to freshly prepared (125)I-labeled IF was similar to that obtained with noniodinated intrinsic factor.
(3) Antibodies to parietal cells were found in 5 cases and 4 patients with pernicious anemia were detected.
(4) Reticulocytes of patients with pernicious anaemia on treatment and with haemolytic anaemia were shown to have higher folate levels than their corresponding mature cells.
(5) Immunofluorescence tests on 94 human sera reacting with rat gastric parietal cells revealed that 41 (44%) of the sera contained antibody to a rat parietal cell antigen that was distinct from the pernicious anaemia autoantigen.
(6) In pernicious anaemia the amount of enzyme is reduced and on this hypothesis the regulatory function impaired.
(7) Six patients without nervous system involvement had normal EEGs, 10 patients with spinal cord or peripheral nervous system involvement had normal or minimally abnormal EEGs, 17 of 19 patients with evidence of mental dysfunction had abnormal EEGs with the most consistent finding being an excess of theta slowing, and 19 patients with pernicious anemia and other neurologic diseases showed EEG findings reflecting the complicating disease process.
(8) This article details the pernicious odontostomatological effects provoked by antitumorous and immunosuppressive medication.
(9) This week, the resilience of Italy’s most pernicious problem – the mafia – was exposed once again when it was announced that Corleone’s town council was being dissolved by the order of Rome because it had been infiltrated by organised crime.
(10) Thus the Type A pattern of gastritis (autoimmune) seen in patients with pernicious anaemia is only rarely associated with Campylobacter like organisms.
(11) Thus, the processing of progastrin adjacent to the active site of gastrin is more restrictively controlled than N-terminal processing during G-cell hypersecretion associated with pernicious anemia.
(12) The early improvement in marrow morphology in patients with pernicious anaemia was greater with 1000 mug than with 5 mug doses of cyanocobalamin.
(13) They were found to have pernicious anemia (PA) and normal adrenal functions.
(14) The EEG was also a good indicator for detecting and confirming other intracranial disease processes unrelated to pernicious anemia.
(15) The endocrine tumours corresponded to the gastric carcinoids found in patients with long-lasting hypergastrinaemia due to pernicious anaemia or with a gastrinoma as part of the MEN I syndrome.
(16) Two vitiligo patients were hypergastrinaemic suggesting latent pernicious anaemia.
(17) 27 patients with pernicious anaemia, followed for a long period, were consecutively treated with three different vitamin B12 preparations, while during intervening period no therapy was given until signs of B12 deficiency developed.
(18) Sixteen control subjects, 13 patients with pernicious anaemia, and four who had had total gastrectomy were studied.
(19) And so while it’s particularly pernicious that some parents pay for months, sometimes years, of tutoring to get their child through an exam that they might well otherwise fail, I know it’s because they are desperate to secure for their child any extra benefit going in a country that is becoming ever more unequal.
(20) This policy, which prevents many travellers and overseas residents from benefitting from one of the most effective prophylactic treatments on the market today, thereby indirectly causing a number of pernicious cases of malaria, is based on the unfounded, unproved premise that wide use of this drug would foster the development of méfloquine-resistance or on side-effects, which are in fact rarely of any consequence and always curable.