| A similar performance then would be an unmitigated disaster, with the Battle of Britain likely to be no more than a bloodbath. |
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| The accepted truth is to say that if it hadn't there would have been a bloodbath in the streets. |
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| Revolution was not to be encouraged, though, and the yeomanry turned protest into a bloodbath at Peterloo. |
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| Fears are now running high that the street attack could spark a bloodbath among the city's rival mobs. |
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| The shooting marked the start of a bloodbath that killed 200,000 people and forced 1.8 million to leave their homes. |
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| A wacky, black-comic interlude has morphed with appalling speed into a potential bloodbath. |
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| Now the president said that he was leaving this country to avoid a bloodbath. |
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| Creep is a gory bloodbath, with enough macabre incidents of torture to put it up near the video nasty shelf. |
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| This led to a communal bloodbath in which hundreds of thousands were killed and many thousands more were expelled from their homes. |
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| This was the real cause of the horrendous bloodbath of the First World War. |
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| When the people at home glimpse the reality of war, that it's a bloodbath, they freak out. |
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| The film opens with a bloodbath, relying heavily on killing, maiming and general shock tactics. |
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| I had to join in and march, unprotestingly, together with these raging wretches, towards an unknown bloodbath. |
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| The government, they say, is concealing a savage bloodbath in which dozens of detainees were killed by police and guards. |
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| I thought that I had seen one tiny corner of an indiscriminate massacre of students and intellectuals, a bloodbath. |
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| Indeed, his exit would be made easier if Alawites felt more assured that a bloodbath did not await them. |
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| Who can say where the bloodbath, the spiraling destruction, the grim tornado that strews cadavers in its wake could end? |
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| Our main concern now is how to stop the bloodbath in Syria, as the regime is getting more brutal. |
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| In what way does the killing of defenceless children in their mothers' wombs differ from the bloodbath in Beslan? |
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| The bandits attack, a bloodbath ensues, and casualties are heavy. |
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| True, the election was not the bloodbath that had been widely predicted. |
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| They were viewed as the biggest risk in the attempt to avoid a bloodbath, which appears to be the reason for the controversial use of the special gas. |
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| If this policy continues, there will be a bloodbath, just like the bloodbaths we have seen in other countries. |
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| What is more shocking is that this bloodbath is carried out in the name of human rights. |
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| Set against the white stars of the heavens, Mars was often considered to be a bad omen that foreshadowed a bloodbath. |
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| The alternative, the Kurds say, was an Isis takeover, followed by a bloodbath. |
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| In Sudan, the bloodbath continued, the international community apparently paralyzed and unable to take effective measures to stop the genocide. |
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| Mark you, this is an article that was given its current form only after the bloodbath in Peking's Tienanmen Square. |
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| Engines conk out at pivotal moments, and the boat's propellers unexpectedly start up when a diver is looking for damage, resulting in an aquatic bloodbath. |
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| You can turn a bloodbath into a perfectly co-ordinated effort to rid the world of rag-headed villains. |
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| Our country's first-hand experience with the reality of warlike violence will prove, in the end, our best leverage against engaging in yet another senseless bloodbath. |
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| Federal forces had not intervened during the occupation, he added, for fear of provoking a bloodbath. |
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| With the gunman taking his own life in the Binghamton bloodbath, we may never know what demons drove him to him to such carnage. |
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| During the time of the election in the early 1990s there was great fear within the country of South Africa and elsewhere that the country would implode in a bloodbath, but it did not happen for many reasons. |
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| The bloodbath and consequent civil war swiftly take Macbeth and Lady Macbeth into the realms of madness and death. |
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| In an interview after the victory, Daley sought to assure Blacks that there would be no personnel bloodbath at City Hall. |
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| The Arthur Miller classic is on at the Young Vic, so there's still time to gasp at an unexpected and really rather beautiful climactic bloodbath, a consequence of misguided passion in the lowliest of Brooklyn households. |
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| But on Friday, following appeals from religious leaders as well as foreign governments to avoid a bloodbath, the interim government said it would blockade the camps but not storm them. |
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| In fact, the all-sided nationalist bloodbath in the Balkans was directly instigated by the imperialists in their drive to destroy the former deformed workers state of Yugoslavia through capitalist counterrevolution. |
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| The police could have fired and it would have ended in a bloodbath. |
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| It was slow, certainly, but it was progress, and it was better to disarm Iraq peacefully without a bloodbath, without civilian casualties, without provoking uncertainty and anti-Americanism throughout the entire region. |
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| If I truly wanted to deceive my American and British friends, I would encourage them to send more troops and I would encourage them to persist in this bloodbath. |
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| Vaudreuil refused, probably because he was disheartened and wished to avoid an unnecessary bloodbath and to defend the civilians against any consequent misdeeds by undisciplined soldiery during an assault. |
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| The bloodbath that followed, known as the reign of terror, soured many people on the idea of liberty. |
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| An interactive exhibition marking the quincentenary of the bloodbath was held in a marquee. |
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| The bloodbath temporarily abates for brotherly banter inside the claustrophobic tank, but the air is always chokingly thick with impending doom. |
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| For Sloane Rangers Biba and her dashing brother Rex, their days were a booze-filled sexual frenzy in a mansion that ultimately descended into a bloodbath. |
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| The bloodbath took place in the southern Kazakhstan city of Taraz. |
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| The bloodbath destroyed any lingering hope of Scandinavian union. |
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| He produced and stars as Michael Alig in clubland, a stage musical adaptation of Disco Bloodbath. |
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