Sentence examples for murderous battle from inspiring English sources

A group of British Army volunteers in World War I find themselves in a murderous battle.

More substantially, the catastrophist notion that the war "smashed the modern world off the rails and started a cycle of murderous extremism" overlooks what "the modern world" had been doing in colonial contexts for decades before 1914: the murderous battle of Omdurman (1898) prefigured the Somme, but the victims, being proto-Islamic extremists, get overlooked.

The Raven has other ideas: namely that in his last days Poe found himself in a murderous battle of wits -- think Seven -- with a killer bent on recreating the writer's goriest short stories.

On the US-Mexico border, murderous battles between rival drug gangs are getting so out of hand that this month Arizona and New Mexico declared states of emergencies.

For the truculent Alfred Whitehead, who survived Omaha Beach and the murderous battles of the Normandy "Bocage", it was his fellow-Tennessean Paul Timmiehaw Turnerer; staying drunk helped too.

So a wave of urban bombings over the past month has shaken Colombians, and brought new fears that the murderous battles between left-wing guerrillas and right-wing paramilitary vigilantes are reaching the cities, where 70% of the population lives.

Murderous battles between rival drug lords; assassinations of anyone who dared oppose them; police officers, politicians, judges and businessmen corrupted by narco millionaires; elections bought; candidates killed; random and targeted bombings.

This is probably unconstitutional, and has led to murderous battles between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria's north, which some southerners worry could tear the country apart.Visitors to northern Nigeria, however, find that for the most part the Muslims there are calm, moderate, and coexist peacefully with their Christian neighbours.

Not very long after Noel's birth and a final, near-murderous battle, the two were divorced.

The rest have never been heard of again.The massacre may well be one of the worst in Mexico's six-year drug war from 2006 to 2012, when the previous government sent in the army against drug gangs, setting off murderous turf battles.

To succeed, Sawa teams up with a boy from her past (Calian McAuliffe) and battles murderous throngs of teens who run about the streets as if they were starring in a bad Iowan community theater production of West Side Story.