John's gone too genteel for bloodletting.

Now, what was it all about, this latest bloodletting?

As in Iraq, the conflict could provoke large scale bloodletting.

The West needs to get out before the bloodletting starts again in earnest.

During the bloodletting the General Assembly received no special reports from the Council.

The senseless bloodletting in that tormented region of Europe remains stubbornly impervious to solution.

Those countries have been further shaken by natural catastrophes, bad terms of trade, bloodletting and conflict.

Both societies have a mixed history that included periods of peaceful, cooperative politics and periods of violence and bloodletting.

So first, the way in which this woman was treated, in as little as 10 years, will look like bloodletting.

So first the way in which this woman was treated, in as little as 10 years, will look like bloodletting.

In a bizarre twist, al Shabaab even called on Kenyans to prosecute their leaders for post election bloodletting in 2007 2008.

From coastal Rakhine to inland towns like Meiktila and Tatkon, Buddhist monks have incited violence against Muslims (and sometimes vice versa), with local officials often tacitly permitting religious bloodletting.

The American fantasy of a final battle, in Falluja or elsewhere, or the capture of some terrorist mastermind, perpetuates a cycle of bloodletting that puts the world in peril.

Russia sought a pragmatic approach that would protect its commercial interests in Syria and its naval base at the port of Tartus, while bringing an end to the bloodletting.

But if the conditions operate like austerity measures imposed without significant accompanying growth measures they will be more akin to bloodletting the patient must risk death before receiving genuine medicine.

The least that we can do in the tragic circumstances of today is to draw the proper conclusions in order to avoid a repetition in the future of this kind of bloodletting.

Few thought it possible that they would turn against each other in a bloodletting of such brutal enormity that it is very unlikely that Bosnia Herzegovina can ever become a successful multicultural society.

Both countries also possess a fairly educated middle class and intelligentsia alongside more traditional elites. Both societies have a mixed history that included periods of peaceful, cooperative politics and periods of violence and bloodletting.

Snow had found that the proportion of urea in the urine of his patients was low and concluded from this that urea was accumulating in the blood, and therefore proposed bloodletting to counter this.

That is why bringing the troops home early has become the prime objective of Western politicians who are engaged in the region. The West needs to get out before the bloodletting starts again in earnest.

Nigeria, which is giving Taylor sanctuary, is obliged to turn him over to the Special Court for Sierra Leone, created by the United Nations in 2003 to prosecute those responsible for the bloodletting in West Africa s in the 1990 s.

As the bloodletting among our Somali brothers assumed harrowing proportions, and at a time when many were hesitating, we strongly advocated the constructive intervention of the international community, under the umbrella of the United Nations, to save lives and help extricate Somalia from the destruction it was heading for.

Nigeria, which is giving Taylor sanctuary, is obliged to turn him over to the Special Court for Sierra Leone, created by the United Nations in 2003 to prosecute those responsible for the bloodletting in West Africa s in the 1990 s. Indeed, Nigeria now holds the key to peace in the region.

A weak, partitioned Afghanistan may not be a desirable outcome but a soft partition now would be far better than a hard partition later, after years of chaos and bloodletting and infinitely better than the medieval Taliban s return to power and a fresh reign of terror. Indeed, partition may be the only way to prevent Afghanistan from sliding into large scale civil war and to thwart transnational terrorists from reestablishing a base of operations in the rubble.