(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.
Warfare
Definition:
(n.) Military service; military life; contest carried on by enemies; hostilities; war.
(n.) Contest; struggle.
(v. i.) To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars.
Example Sentences:
(1) If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
(2) The home secretary was today pressed to explain how cyber warfare could be seen as being on an equal footing to the threat from international terrorism.
(3) There was effectively a state of open warfare between Mourinho and the club captain Iker Casillas.
(4) Aware that her press secretary, Bernard Ingham, a former labour correspondent for the Guardian who understood the range of attitudes within trade unions, had tried to soften the impression that she saw Kinnock as another General Galtieri [Argentina’s president during the Falklands war], the draft text tried to distinguish between unions, rival parties and what the final text (the one she actually delivered) called “an organised revolutionary minority” with their “outmoded Marxist dogma about class warfare”.
(5) Can Advanced Warfare shake up the series in narrative terms?
(6) In December he smashed apart the Roman forces in the north, assisted by his awesome elephants, the tanks of classical warfare.
(7) Convicted of waging aggressive war and breaking laws of war at Nuremberg, but not of war crimes (or for unrestricted submarine warfare, after US Fleet-Admiral Nimitz admitted he used the same tactics).
(8) Official military doctrine in many countries is that these laws apply to cyberspace as they do to all other domains of warfare.
(9) I only think it’s inevitable if people who support marriage between a man and a woman don’t speak up.” Labor’s Penny Wong said the “open warfare” inside the Liberal party had the potential to “damage the cause of equality that so many Australians care about”.
(10) The need for psychiatrists in the military was recognized for the first time during World War I, which involved millions of men in unusually protracted warfare.
(11) "There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning," the world's third richest man once warned fellow Americans.
(12) A soil sample originating from an area of suspected chemical warfare activity was subjected to chemical analysis and bioassay.
(13) One of the two women suspected of involvement in the poisoning vomited in police custody and was also suffering the effects of VX, which is only usually used in chemical warfare, the inspector general, Khalid Abu Bakar, said.
(14) In the context of what he called the "normalisation of war", Bacevich argued that unchallenged, expanding American military superiority encouraged the use of force, accustomed "the collective mindset of the officer corps" to ideas of dominance, glorified warfare and the warrior and advanced the concept of "the moral superiority of the soldier" over the civilian.
(15) West Side Story had become the acceptable face of teenage gang warfare, so Kubrick stylised and choreographed the violence, setting it to music that ranges from Rossini overtures to 'Singin' in the Rain'.
(16) In Asia, China has deployed a potent mix of psychological and legal warfare to strengthen its claims to hegemony over the South China Sea.
(17) Withheld documents · Sale of arms to Saudi Arabia · Special maritime surveillance operations · An improved kiloton bomb · Production of chemical weapons · Chemical warfare policy · Operations Grape and Tiara · Medical aspects of interrogation · Special operations and how they affect deception · Atomic energy: information received from US under military agreement · Nuclear warheads in the far east · Project R1 · SAS regiment: Borneo operations
(18) In the 1991 Gulf War, Israel's infectious disease surveillance system was utilized to follow the progress of a measles epidemic and to look for evidence of a concealed biological warfare attack.
(19) "It's a form of asymmetric warfare," said William Becker, a lawyer and conservative advocate who represented the Santa Monica Nativity Scenes Committee in its losing battle with the city council.
(20) In that case, Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg apologized to Norwegian prime minister Erna Solberg after the company deleted a post by her in which she shared the picture in solidarity with Tom Egeland, a writer who had included the Nick Ut picture as one of seven photographs he said had “changed the history of warfare”.