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America could still beat any likely enemy, said the general, but its response would be slower and bloodier.

Had he been less of a buffoon, South Africa's road to democracy might have been bloodier.

A demonstration the next day in Sana'a was bigger and bloodier than ever, posing still more of a threat to President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

THE best that can be said about this week's bloody street battles in Bangkok is that they [could] have been so much bloodier.

The first three months of 2009 were less murderous than the last three of 2008, but the rest of the year turned out to be far bloodier.

This cautious policy, though, could easily be upended if events in Iran were to turn bloodier still.

This time the fight for money could be even bloodier than in the past. But it is unlikely to be any more decisive.

Several issues, if mishandled, could reignite a bloodier conflict all over again.

Meanwhile the much larger, bloodier problems of the Muslim separatist insurgency in southern Thailand and the Philippines continue.

Yet all the monks fear another, bloodier, encounter, and each wrestles with whether following Christ means waiting passively to die.

But there are many other, bloodier conflicts that do not seem as frustrating.

But, as Louis XVI learnt as the guillotine fell, the longer reform is delayed, the bloodier the revolution.

In a town where there are other, bloodier ways to earn cash, this makes for a dangerous brew.

But if the protests persist, especially if they get bloodier, the momentum for radical change could quickly resume.

Michael: There were newspapers that had bloodier images of the shooting!

Rob Zombie's competent remake ups the grit-factor and features some more explicit violence and bloodier deaths.

THREE months in and the uprising in Syria is growing ever bloodier.

EID AL-ADHA, the Islamic festival commemorating Abraham's readiness to sacrifice his son, has been bloodier than usual in Syria.

Far bloodier outrages are all too common, and not just in the wilds of the tribal areas near Afghanistan.

Tribal ties play a far greater role, and thus the conflict will unfortunately be bloodier.

As Adams put it, "The poor Babel fish has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation. "

Yet we see it everywhere, becoming bloodier all the time.

On the other hand, politics can be a much bloodier battleground than war, as any advocate of a "kinder society" soon finds out.

Each fighting season is bloodier than the last.

We may be too early: the downturn could get even bloodier.

The government has faced bloodier threats, on its borders: from separatists in Punjab in the 1980s and in Kashmir and the north-east still.

IN THE past fortnight, Bashar Assad's regime has become both lonelier and bloodier.

from domestic struggles over America's debt ceiling and gun control to bloodier conflicts in Mali and Syria