Sentence examples for a readiness to kill from inspiring English sources
The author seems to be interested in a particular distillation of Englishness: "bravery, endurance, an ironic obedience to necessary authority, a readiness to kill for the cause given half a chance".
In recent years, he has declared a readiness to kill for Jacob Zuma, South Africa's president; described the leader of the main opposition party, Helen Zille, as a cockroach; and hounded a BBC correspondent out of a news conference, accusing him of "white tendencies".
As the Hutu Power leaders changed their message to the masses from an order to kill in self-defense to an order to flee for their lives, more than two million Hutus, many of whom had demonstrated their readiness to kill, abandoned their country before a rebel army of some thirty thousand.
Still, there were frequent reminders of the militants' cold-steel ideology and readiness to kill.
What is more puzzling is the seemingly suicidal behaviour of France in its readiness to kill the world's most ambitious trade negotiation before it begins.
EMBATTLED Iraqi leaders, before and after Saddam Hussein, have tended to assert their authority by showing off their toughness, even their readiness to kill people who try to do them down.
They were dwarfed by the supposed counterterrorist credentials of these despots, their professed loathing for Al Qaeda or Hamas or any brand of radical Islamist, and their readiness to kill or torture and pass on intelligence.
The Italian animal rights organisation AIDAA suggested the dogs could have been knifed by would-be entrants to the local Camorra mafia during initiation rites in order to prove their readiness to kill.
