Word: bloodlusts
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...streets, stepping over corpses, as Serb militia members led away helpless civilians to what would be their mass grave. A year later, as part of a similar land grab in eastern Bosnia, the same men were happily torching Muslim homes and murdering their owners. The fighters were drunk with bloodlust and slivovitz, but they were also led by the invisible hand of Milosevic's secret police, who organized, armed and supplied them. It was the link between Milosevic and these crimes that my testimony was intended to help prove...
...taking money away from universities, welfare recipients and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Taxpayers' assets were passed on for sale to merchant bankers, government debt was shredded, and a shareholder democracy was born. When Workplace Relations Minister Peter Reith launched an assault on the waterfront unions, there was a certain bloodlust. In pursuing a new tax system, with its 10% goods and services tax, a diligent and obstinate Treasurer Peter Costello lost his youth and much of his spark. Howard's way may have been austere and divisive, especially for someone who was governing...
...undead, it turns out, with no life to sustain or career to advance, have time on their hands. Some of it must be spent on their immaculate hair and to-undie-for abs. But the main business of the day is bloodlust, with an emphasis on the lust. Romance authors--and who can blame them?--find it hard to resist the imagery. Women are "impaled," "scream to wake the dead" and constantly experience a rushing of blood. Not that all female characters are the bitten. There are women predators--gutsy, jaded, sexually voracious ladies of the night in need...
...independent judges who can weigh all the facts and provide a fair ruling. Sentencing decisions shouldn’t be made in the political sphere, where ideologues like O’Reilly can use misleading stories to obscure the facts and whip up the public’s bloodlust...
...been killed in the strike, Coleman believes his loss would not be a crippling blow to al-Qaeda. Zawahiri is certainly a radicalized, visceral killer, driven by "a deep-down hatred" honed by his experiences in an Egyptian prison. Coleman believes the Egyptian contingent of al-Qaeda demonstrated a bloodlust unusual even among the committed jihadists. Many graduates of Qaeda camps had no qualms about carrying out bombings, but few matched the Egyptians' readiness to spill blood up close, through shootings and stabbings. "The Egyptians were always more doers than talkers," says Coleman. "They were capable of extraordinary violence which...