(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.
Struggle
Definition:
(v. i.) To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
(v. i.) To use great efforts; to labor hard; to strive; to contend forcibly; as, to struggle to save one's life; to struggle with the waves; to struggle with adversity.
(v. i.) To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.
(n.) A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.
(n.) Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an evil.
(n.) Contest; contention; strife.
Example Sentences:
(1) They had learned through hard experience what Frederick Douglass once taught -- that freedom is not given, it must be won, through struggle and discipline, persistence and faith.
(2) This is a struggle for the survival of our nation.” As ever, after Trump’s media dressing-down, his operation was quick to fit a velvet glove to an iron fist.
(3) Slager, 33, was a patrolman first class for the North Charleston police department when he fatally shot Scott, 50, following a struggle that led from a traffic stop when the officer noticed that one of Scott’s car tail lights was broken.
(4) For a union that, in less than 25 years, has had to cope with the end of the cold war, the expansion from 12 to 28 members, the struggle to create a single currency and, most recently, the eurozone crisis, such a claim risks accusations of hyperbole.
(5) He said: “Almost daily we hear from parents desperate to escape the single cramped room of a B&B or hostel that they find themselves struggling to raise their children in.
(6) Nevertheless we know that there will remain a large number of borrowers with payday loans who are struggling to cope with their debts, and it is essential that these customers are signposted to free debt advice.
(7) Its struggling mobile phone business resulted in a net loss of 136 billion yen for the three months to September, although that figure was smaller than analysts had predicted.
(8) They took 15% in 2010, with the other parties caught in a scrappy three-way struggle in which the winning Lib Dems came in below 30%.
(9) Likewise, Blanchett's co-star Alec Baldwin appeared to call for an end to the public nature of the row, terming Dylan's allegations "this family's personal struggle".
(10) RIM has always struggled to explain to the authorities that, unlike most other companies, it technically cannot access or read the majority of the messages sent by users over its network.
(11) But she has struggled – quite awkwardly – to articulate her evolution on same-sex marriage, and has left environmental activists wondering what her exact energy policy is.
(12) They anticipated the following scenario: a struggling club fires its manager and enjoys an immediate upsurge.
(13) While Greece struggled to find a new leader, the spotlight turn dramatically to Italy.
(14) Losing Murphy is a blow to the Oscars which has struggled to liven up its image amid a general decline in its TV ratings over the last couple of decades and a rush of awards shows that appeal to younger crowds, such as the MTV Movie Awards.
(15) They had been pinning their hopes on Alan Johnson who has, in their eyes, the natural authority and ease of manner which Miliband has struggled to develop.
(16) The real change is coming from the community-led frontline struggles.
(17) As ABC reports, Adam Bandt, the only Greens MP in the lower house, won his Melbourne seat with the help of Liberal preferences at the last election, and may struggle to hold it on 7 September.
(18) I have always struggled with the quality of my own work but despite my misgivings about the photos I am taking I can't honestly say they would have been any better two years ago.
(19) Braff will direct and play the lead role of a father, actor and husband struggling to find his identity.
(20) Young people from ordinary working families that are struggling to get by.” Labour said Greening’s department had deliberately excluded the poorest families from her calculations to make access to grammar schools seem fairer and accused her of “fiddling the figures”.