internecine strife

collocation in English

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internecine
adjective
uk
/ˌɪn.təˈniː.saɪn/us
/ˌɪn.t̬ɚˈniː.sɪn/
Internecine war or fighting happens between members of the same group, religion, ...
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strife
noun[U]
uk
/straɪf/us
/straɪf/
violent or ...
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(Definition ofinternecineandstrifefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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But the key elements wereinternecinestrifewithin the ruling elite and a politically immature successor as king.
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Internecinestrifemakes manifest the frailty of the human condition, its ' greatest weakness ', which consists in the ' dispersion and disjunction ' of mankind.
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I should not like to enter into any of theinternecinestrifebetween these unions.
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Even in some democratic areas—certainly in some tyrannies—civil wars, ethnic conflicts or otherinternecinestrifepredominate.
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I am sorry to interrupt thisinternecinestrife.
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In my submission, this dilemma cannot be resolved byinternecinestrife.
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Thisinternecinestrifehas damaged the legal profession for years past and will continue to damage it in the future.
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I do not want to intervene any more than is strictly necessary today in thisinternecinestrife.
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To introduce this scheme will lead only tointernecinestrifein the unions.
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That is not a policy of pacification; it is a policy which would exacerbate and perpetuateinternecinestrife.
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The complexities of theinternecinestrifethat took place nearly half a century ago are enormously difficult to disentangle.
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We need a co-ordinator with sufficient powers to get the voluntary bodies to pull together for the proper good of the nation, not to indulge ininternecinestrife.
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But if arbitration is an honourable and humane solution when nation is ranged against nation, why is it not an honourable and humane solution ininternecinestrife?
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In the past the cotton trade has waged aninternecinestrifebetween all sections of the industry, which while well enough when there was no foreign competition, cannot now continue.
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I am afraid when we march to the sea we shall leave behind a country rent withinternecinestrifeand seething with the most bitter hostility.
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His thirty-six-year rule was filled withinternecinestrifeas well as external conflict.
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Other approaches to development had been hegemonic and exploitative and had led tointernecinestrifeand civil war.
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The other nations, suffering from theinternecinestrife, likewise requested incorporation by treaty.
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Uprisings andinternecinestrifewere finally ended in 1836, after considerable loss of life.
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