Still, these are internecine conflicts, conducted largely among people who have spent their entire lives in academe.

Internecine conflicts are an interminable part of the human condition.

This zone featured areas of political vacuum, underdevelopment, and internecine conflicts which made it both unstable and ripe for conquest.

But it may represent little more than the latest skirmish in a seemingly endless internecine war.

For him the real nightmare would be internecine war with the dissidents turning on the provisionals.

Royalist officers, split between liberals and conservatives, fought an internecine war among themselves.

They are foreground headlines, they are internecine wars, they are allegedly bribes and envelopes containing $40,000 (24,255) bundles of notes.

It also led to relentless internecine wars whenever two familial lines wound up with goals in conflict.

The most difficult thing to contend with, however, was the internecine warfare at home.

So far internecine warfare has not broken out.

Insiders say the internecine warfare in the executive ranks has largely stopped and that top managers are now 'pulling in the same direction'.

Since the country began sliding, then toppling, into internecine warfare, cross-community loyalties have frayed or have already snapped.

It devolved into a large number of technologically backward societies, many of them ruled by petty tyrants and prey to internecine warfare.