6 sentences with 'murderous'
Example sentences and phrases with the word murderous and other words derived from it.
• « A murderous leader named Basil I, originally from Macedonia, took the throne in 867 and initiated a line of ruthless but competent leaders who ruled for some two hundred years. »
• « Building on the murderous anti-Semitism that had begun in earnest during the Crusader period, Jews were often victims of this phenomenon. »
• « Hitler's obsession with a racialised and murderous vision of German power translated directly into the Holocaust of European Jewry and into the Second World War itself. »
• « The USSR went from being a murderous police state under Stalin to a bloated and corrupt police state under Nikita Khrushchev and the leaders who followed him. »
• « Within months, however, Iraq became a state of murderous anarchy, as former Ba'ath Party leaders (ousted by US forces), local Islamic clerics and members of different tribal or ethnic groups led rival insurgencies against the occupying US military and their own Iraqi rivals. »
• « The Revolution gave residents the opportunity to fight out local resentments and antagonisms with murderous consequences. »