Sentence examples for bloody rivalry from inspiring English sources
The untold story of Mexico's "Drug War" – the bloody rivalry between narco-traffickers – is that the violence affects thousands of people completely unconnected with the drugs trade.
Mr Amum comes from the Shilluk, one of South Sudan's minority tribes, and is therefore seen as neutral in the bloody rivalry between the two largest ethnic groups, the Dinka and the Nuer.
But that harmony has often been missing from the city's streets, plagued by increasing violence in recent years: sectarian blood baths, criminal score-settling, militant atrocities and the bloody rivalry among the city's ethnically divided political parties.
Nostalgic collectors of Scottish memorabilia sift through, and pore over, these cards with much the same misty-eyed sentimentality that runs through "The Great Feud", a book which purports to deplore but seems to revel in the bloody rivalry of the MacDonalds and the Campbells.
With notoriety and success came backbiting, backstabbing, and bloody rivalry.
4. ISIS exists because of the bloody rivalry between Sunni and Shia in Iraq.
His terse epigrams support the ideals of genuine noblemen and loyal German patriots and decry the futility of bloody rivalries among religious groups.
We destroy our own hopes for any solution and instead devolve into bloody rivalries and geo-political exploitations of the Middle East.
The Orient was similarly fraught with religiously justified external wars and bloody internal rivalry between competing Muslim dynasties.
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Nora Titone's book, "My Thoughts Be Bloody: The Bitter Rivalry Between Edwin and John Wilkes Booth That Led to an American Tragedy," can be ordered here.
