Sentences with phrase «bloodshed between»

A sacred white bat's disappearance begets bloodshed between African tribes and puts the goofy pet sleuth on the case.

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The links between bloodshed in Mexico and US drug consumption are extensive.

A huge amount of the bloodshed in the Middle East is because a dispute between the Sunni and the Shia Arabs in the year 632 between who should inherit the religious and political office of their prophet Mohammad.

Fears of further bloodshed has led Kenya's election commission to postpone the planned voting in some opposition strongholds, with safety concerns for its workers cited as deadly clashes continued between police and protesters.

Here some definition is imperative, for while revolutions seldom occur without some bloodshed, there is a difference between violent revolutions like the French Revolution or the American War of Independence, and the relatively peaceful Industrial Revolution or the Gandhian revolution by which India secured her independence.

Clashes between natives and the settler Fulani population have often led to bloodshed, death, rape and destruction of crops and property on either side.

In 1920 friction between miners and company strike breakers resulted in bloodshed in the West Virginia town of Matewan.

In between, The Wild Bunch presents coffin nails for every single thing sacred in the western genre: its heroes are broken - down, paunchy, exhausted, and driven by the wrong things; its whores are nasty; and its bloodshed is excessive and unconscionable.3 Other New American westerns could only pretend at this picture's level of absolute obscenity; like Apocalypse Now, it wasn't a movie about Vietnam — it was Vietnam.

You Don't Mess with the Zohan is a half - hearted attempt from a mostly Jewish collection of filmmakers to have a little fun with the tensions between the Israeli and Arab communities that erupt into bloodshed and violence on a seemingly daily basis.

At a critical moment in the film, Lincoln (Daniel Day - Lewis, uncannily embodying the physicality and spirit of this great and deeply troubled man in a truly great performance) must make a choice between ending the Civil War in a week or allowing 10 more days of potential bloodshed so that the House can vote upon the amendment — a vote he has not yet secured.

All that stands between him and his target is a horde of Yokai — demons summoned by the war's bloodshed.

The moment captured is both ambiguous and unnerving — the deep, rich, crimson pigment creating a compelling tension between the red flag of Communism and its subtext of violent bloodshed.

Three layers of beaded curtain - crimson glass strung on threads hanging from the ceiling - flicker between lush trinketry and a vision of bloodshed: a banner proclaiming the peril of life.

The war between Apple and Android has always led to heated debate — sometimes leading even to bloodshed.