Sentences with phrase «of internecine warfare»

This Christmas's three biggest triple - A blockbusters are united in their desire to tell stories of internecine warfare, even if they can't quite agree on whether to whoop it up or get all Siegfried Sassoon.

A film of tenderness and wit, Lady Bird astutely captures the nature of the internecine warfare that habitually exists between girls in late adolescence and their mothers.

Labour progressives might find it all too easy to dismiss these events as a fortuitous bout of internecine warfare on the right.

He has ruthlessly dispatched pretenders to his crown, chief amongst whom are numbered Alan Milburn, Stephen Byers, David Blunkett, Charles Clarke and (ultimately after a decade of internecine warfare) Tony Blair himself.

Five days after a deal was struck to unite Senate Democrats after years of internecine warfare, would - be donors were being reminded of a fundraiser this week to fund the campaign operations of the defunct Independent Democratic Conference.

ALBANY — Five days after a deal was struck to unite Senate Democrats after years of internecine warfare, would - be donors were being reminded Monday of a fundraiser this week to fund the campaign operations of the defunct Independent Democratic Conference.

Recent decades of internecine warfare have marred the island nation and sundered its rich mosaic of cultures.

Not exact matches

The political combustibility of internal corruption, the internecine political warfare between the so - called Kufuor - Asante and Akufo - Addo - Akyem factions, Kofi Jumah's and Kennedy Agyapong's martial postures and warlike rhetoric, the suspensions of Kwabena Agyapong and Sammy Crabbe and Paul Afoko, the acid - bathing assassination of Adams Mahama, and the murder of other party supporters within the NPP fraternity... are certainly not the work of the NDC.

I don't want to compare this to what Scott walker did in Wisconsin, but it's the New York State Democratic - internecine - warfare - politics version of that.

Lord Patten said the role of special adviser had become counterproductive as they no longer simply provided support to ministers and instead they «see it as their job to promote internecine warfare between departments on too many occasions.»

Eva Moskowitz, the charter schools titan and bête noire of the de Blasio administration, recently announced she would not run for mayor — an acknowledgment, perhaps, of how difficult internecine warfare against Mr. de Blasio could be.

The late 12th century was a period of protracted conflict, internecine warfare and revenge killings between the large Mongolian clans, a time when previous political orders were shattered and a new militaristic, centralized order emerged under Genghis Khan.

Fair enough, although there's a distasteful, internecine - warfare quality to all of this: Charters that backfill resent the praise and glory heaped upon those who do not, and seek to cut them down to size.

The dysfunction of the infant American government was nothing compared to the internecine warfare of the British generals, who spent much of their energy scheming against each other.

The life of the eponymous «rooptoppers» is grimy; it involves hunger, injury and internecine warfare.

It immediately set me off wondering how this kid fits into the grander scope of the internecine gang warfare our protagonist is an unwitting pawn in.