Sentence examples for bloody chapter from inspiring English sources

Charles Dickens, who toured in 1842, predicted that "the bloody chapter" of slavery would have "a bloody end".

However, the Indonesian government has repeatedly resisted attempts to openly grapple with this bloody chapter in its history.

It is a handmaiden to the Sudanese regime's atrocities, while giving the West the false feeling of comfort that a bloody chapter has ended in Darfur.

Even so, I'm not sure that, examined coldly, "Here Lies Love" provides much more than "Evita" by way of insights into a bloody chapter of 20th-century history.

At some point their conversation turned to Mr. Cimino's passion project, "The Johnson County War," about a brief, bloody chapter in American history that in 1892 pitted big cattlemen against small and left two dead.

Against this background, Colonel Wirt, a neuroradiologist who volunteered for duty in an infantry brigade, set out in 2010 to make his own record of one brief but bloody chapter of the Afghan war.

Past historians have squeamishly discounted these bloody chapters of the Revolution.

Like other dictators who wrote bloody chapters in 20th-century history, Mr. Hussein was primed for violence by early childhood.

In his Pulitzer Prize winning novel "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," Junot Díaz explored the Trujillo era and the tendency for Dominicans, indeed cultures the world over, to bury bloody chapters rather than "take the full measure of that traumatic legacy".

Kodiliniye Obiagwu's prevailing memory of the Biafran civil war – the bloodiest chapter in Nigeria's history – is listening to the radio.

The facts of the case are that the Congo that Conrad saw in 1890 was in the midst of a human catastrophe--the bloodiest chapter of Europe's turn-of-the-century scramble for Africa.