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Murderous in sentence

295 examples of Murderous in a sentence

Murderous gang rides into dirtwater town and terrorizes the locals, including honorary sheriff James Stewart.
There's Stanwyck (before her teeth were fixed) and Blondell (gum-popping her way through the Nurse's Oath), both trying to survive grabby interns, unscrupulous doctors, murderous families, and no money.
In this sequel to 1984's Children of the corn, the authorities find the bodies in Gatlin and the murderous kids responsible.
Micah gets the kids to go back to their murderous habits and soon the adults begin to die...again.
Despite their differences, these groups have one thing in common: a deep hostility toward international structures and interconnectedness (though, of course, a murderous group like ISIS is in a different category from, say, European populists).
Who would have thought that in the late 20th century Serbian mythologies over the Battle of Kosovo of 1389 could galvanize a population behind the murderous nationalism of Slobodan Milosevic?
But just about the only thing that seems clear about this murderous affair is that utterly alienated young men of any religion or ethnicity might suddenly rebel violently.
This might seem ironic, coming from a German and a confirmed Atlanticist, but it is actually fitting, because Germany, in its transformation from a murderous dictatorship into a peaceful liberal democracy, needed the US more than any country.
Murderous anti-Semitism and radical nationalism followed the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
NEW YORK – When incompetence in the Kremlin turns murderous, its incumbents can begin to tremble.
Of the 25 most murderous cities in the world, a staggering 23 are in Latin America.
This may be because mosques and Islamic associations find it difficult to compete with the promises of solace available through the Internet, where voices can address political issues, feed off injustices around the world, and launch calls to arms that can ultimately be murderous.
How long, one wonders, will Jean-Luc Mélenchon – a contender in France’s presidential election last spring, who now aspires to lead the opposition as the head of La France Insoumise, a left-wing populist party whose name translates roughly as “rebellious France” – continue to sing the praises of Venezuela’s murderous regime?
At its worst, intolerance is literally murderous.
That there will now be a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Belgrade suggests that the current Yugoslav leadership understands that it needs to heal the wounds inflicted on its own people by the murderous Milosevic regime.
After the first turbulent and murderous years of the Iranian revolution, the last few years have shown some remarkable developments.
The only people who seem to have benefited from this democratic division are the murderous Tamil Tigers.
If Assad and his murderous cronies agree to relinquish power, they will undoubtedly seek amnesty for their crimes.
This is particularly so if one accepts - as I do - intervention in the internal affairs of countries in order to prevent genocide or the murderous suppression of minorities and opposition groups.
Muammar el-Qaddafi’s murderous stance during the uprising has revealed his true colors, regardless of his more moderate posture in recent years.
What occurred in the cage, according to this narrative, was the long-overdue defeat, by wholly necessary and defensible means, of a murderous terrorist insurrection that had threatened the country’s very existence.
Maybe with time, the murderous savages that kill for a drawing in the name of their god, will get it through their thick heads that they can never stop us, and every attempt to only fuels our cause more (sic).”
Having lost all legitimacy, Venezuela’s kleptocratic and murderous regime is hanging on by a thread.
The US was far from consistent or perfect in this process, sometime to murderous effect in places like Vietnam.
The will to transcend the murderous trauma in the Balkans was also present.
Al-Shabaab justifies its brutal behavior with a deeply twisted ideology that combines a crude distortion of Islam with a Khmer Rouge-style embrace of radical agrarian-based autarky and murderous contempt for those with formal education.
The conflict there is no mere democratic revolt against a murderous regime.
Still, the record of such episodes is grim: Idi Amin, Saddam Hussein, Pol Pot, and many others were able to wreak murderous mayhem.
If Iran gains nuclear weapons, it may, like Nazi Germany before it, be engulfed by murderous folly, threatening disaster for Israel.
Legally, morally, politically, and militarily, it has only one justification: protecting Libyans from the kind of murderous harm that Qaddafi inflicted on unarmed protestors four weeks ago; has continued to inflict on those who oppose him in the areas that his forces control; and has promised to inflict on his opponents in Benghazi and other rebel-held territory.
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