Sentence examples for murderous power from inspiring English sources

My colleagues and I spent months in Syria as it descended into barbarity and Isis rose in its murderous power.

In that world of murderous power struggle, no one took him seriously as a rival, no one thought him worth killing.

Game of Thrones, with its murderous power struggles and internecine civil wars, may not appear an obvious source of inspiration for cricket administrators to follow.

The introduction of democracy has had to contend with terrifying security and logistical problems, the threat of murderous power struggles between warlords, worries about intimidation, and attacks on government and election officials.

As much as is possible with such a maniacal historical figure, this casting stroke humanizes Jiang's story, as we see a ferociously ambitious young woman metabolize into a murderous power wielder.

For God so loved his villains that He raised them all to positions of murderous power, while promising the suffering masses He'd send the bullies to Hell when they were dead.

To most Poles, Stalin's Soviet Union was first a co-conspirator with Hitler's Germany, and then a murderous occupying power.

It pits the designs of common girl against the schemes of a murderous king, and the bond between two sisters against the dark temptation of power beyond measure.

"This case," Mr. Henoch said, "is about the vicious, violent, cunning and murderous rise to power of Joseph Massino".

But other witnesses and local leaders in Khost tell a different story, blaming Sergeant Chapman's death on a murderous rivalry for power between Afghan warlords.

In Uganda, Britain raised the murderous Idi Amin to power, who crushed the progressive Common Man's Charter before it could be implemented.