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In the literature of falconry, goshawks enjoyed a ruffian's reputation and, in the words of Helen Macdonald, were viewed as "murderous, difficult to tame, sulky, fractious and foreign".
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"It's very difficult in these fanatic, murderous groups to find people who will rat against the chief," Ms. Abramson said.
Joy wrote that, although Kaczynski's actions were "murderous, and, in my view, criminally insane", that, "as difficult as it is for me to acknowledge, I saw some merit in the reasoning in this single passage.
This, in turn, has prompted Iran, another difficult neighbour, to indulge in its own trouble-making by allowing a murderous Islamic group, Ansar al-Islam, to operate in the impenetrable mountain terrain near the Iranian border.The encouraging news is that the rival Kurdish factions appear to be resisting attempts by external powers to pitch them back into fratricidal fighting.
And claiming she carried out the killings as part of a satanic cult, a high priest of the Church of Satan issued a statement, saying, "I find it difficult to believe that a 'killer cult' of any sort could be in operation before being noticed and their murderous members captured and prosecuted".
A murderous wife.
Berserk murderous blood rage.
Comfortable armchairs are murderous traps.
Politics was murderous, operatic, improvisational.
But his nature is murderous.
The murderous wolf backs off.
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