Sentence examples for savage warfare from inspiring English sources

He predicts savage warfare.

Edward inaugurated 250 years of bitter hatred, savage warfare, and bloody border forays.

To make matters worse, the South proved a fickle ally: Confederate generals voiced concern that the use of Indian troops might transform their noble cause into "savage warfare".

Many of those city-states flourished during the Renaissance era, a time marked by significant intellectual, artistic, and technological advances but also by savage warfare between states loyal to the pope and those loyal to the Holy Roman Empire.

Following half a century of intermittent but savage warfare and perhaps 2m deaths, the government and the main southern rebel group have all but clinched a complex deal to share power and resources.

We have said such things before, however, usually, as in our wars against Native Americans and in Vietnam, as a justification for savage warfare and a disregard for the rule of law.

Savage gang warfare is intercut with candy floss and penny-in-the-slot machines.

According to Pérez-Maura, Alviri said that Miguel Ángel Moratinos — Zapatero's pick for Foreign Minister — had approached the Iranians to negotiate with Moqtada al-Sadr, the radical Shiite cleric, whose militia was engaged in savage urban warfare with Coalition troops.

And the university has launched a free online course on the life and times of Richard III, a exploration of an episode described as a time "huge upheavals, including savage dynastic warfare, shifting allegiances among a powerful aristocracy, and significant depopulation".

Gen. Henry E. McCulloch, in command in North Texas, where Quantrill's guerrillas camped, was eager for the extra men but did not want to "sanction a savage, inhuman warfare, in which men are to be shot down like dogs, after throwing down their arms and holding up their hands supplicating for mercy".

Simultaneously, he and his frequent writing partner, Jay Cocks, were working on what was supposed to be the final draft of the screenplay of his next feature, "Gangs of New York," an adaptation of Herbert Asbury's history of an unheavenly nineteenth-century city plagued by corruption, poverty, crime, and savage tribal warfare.