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blood feud

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English

blood feud • n. a lengthy conflict between families involving a cycle of retaliatory killings or injury.


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Blood Feud
; ...is documented, I was skeptical of how "Blood Feud" authors Bill Nowlin and Jim Prime could...Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees. "Blood Feud" begins with the first three games of...moments of the Sox-Yanks rivalry. Before "Blood Feud" continued to the final four games of... Read more
Fed: Blood feud not good enough to win refugee protection
; ...General News (Australia) 12-14-2006 Fed: Blood feud not good enough to win refugee protection...getting killed in a 60-year-old Albanian blood feud did not qualify a person for refugee...in 1944-45 his grandfather sparked a blood feud by killing a member of the Paja family... Read more
A powerful deterrent
; ...05-08-1995 IN Islamic custom, the rules of the blood feud clearly establish the right of anyone...or tribe is considered legitimate. The blood feud does not differentiate between personal...suggestions that Israel apply the rules of the blood feud to cases of religiously tinged ... Read more
Seen & Overheard
; 'PUMPKINHEAD' PREMIERE Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud will make its world theatrical premiere...1994 Wright State graduate, Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud is the third sequel to the 1988 horror...graveyard to exact vengeance. Pumpkinhead: Blood Feud stars Lance Henriksen, Amy Manson and... Read more
Fed: Beazley vows to continue blood feud over IR
; ...12-06-2005 Fed: Beazley vows to continue blood feud over IR By Maria Hawthorne, Chief Political...Leader Kim Beazley has vowed to carry the "blood feud" with the government over industrial...touch, particularly over IR. "This is a blood feud," a caucus spokeswoman quoted Mr Beazley... Read more
Boy shot; relative says feud is cause
; ...previously was wounded by gunfire in a blood feud between two local families. The woman...blamed both drive-bys on the two-year blood feud that claimed the life of her son Ronald...numerous nonfatal gun attacks -- to the blood feud between the Guy and the Woods families... Read more
JORDAN: BLOOD FEUD MURDERER SENT TO PRISON.(Kassab Abdullah)(Brief Article)
; ...Jordan Times , the Criminal Court sentenced a Tafileh resident to 15 years in prison for killing a man in Aqaba as part of a blood feud reaching back 32 years. The tribunal declared Kassab Abdullah, 21, guilty of killing Salem Hassan, 46, last April to avenge... Read more
Sons gone, Hussein's struggle is now a blood feud
; ...County, NJ) 07-27-2003 Sons gone, Hussein's struggle is now a blood feud By ANDREW M. COCKBURN Date: 07-27-2003, Sunday Section: OPINION...already a life-and-death struggle for Hussein is now also a blood feud. Even so, his grief must be extreme. Saddam has always been... Read more
Kray blood feud fear.
; POLICE chiefs fear that gangster Reggie Kray's private dossier could spark a Mafia-style blood feud. They are worried that a Home Office decision to release details in 50 released documents could identify not only members of the... Read more
Blood Feud. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
; ...curves and navigating them through near-death experiences. If you like intrigue and adventure, then you will enjoy this book. Blood Feud is a gripping medical mystery with the sleuth work being done by amateurs, namely a physician and an archeologist, as opposed... Read more

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feud
...especially between family groups. The blood feud (see vendetta ) is characteristic...or has decayed. In modern times the feud, outlawed in most countries, has persisted...famous example is the 19th-century feud of the Hatfields and McCoys in the... Read more
Native American Law: Blood Revenge
...of retaliation. In the Mosaic law of the Old Testament blood revenge was described as an “ eye for an eye and...more complicated than the scripture implies. The law of blood revenge was grounded in the clan structure of a Native...there were instances when the system did not work, and blood feuds ... Read more
avenger of blood
avenger of blood In a case of murder, the victim's nearest relative was expected to avenge...was restricted to the perpetrator of the crime (Deut. 24: 16) and endless blood feuds were avoided. However, because there could be unintentional homicide... Read more
vendetta
vendetta blood-feud. XIX. — It.:- L. vindicta vengeance. Read more

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