Example collocations logo

Enemy in sentence

1247 examples of Enemy in a sentence

America’s faltering Afghan strategy should serve as a cautionary tale of how not to make peace with an enemy.
Moreover, treating China as an enemy would ensure that it became one, thus unnecessarily ignoring the possibility of benign outcomes.
The third possible outcome is that the strongest from among the current critics of the president will win, inheriting the existing system of power, which they will then use to find their own enemy and to fight it as long as it will be possible to remain in power, in the meantime inspiring the compassion or hatred of their compatriots, for whom nothing will really change.
The leaders that brought on failure and the groups that did not triumph become heroes for being able to claim that they courageously fought the enemy without being crushed.
As a result, the best has become the enemy of the good.
In these epochal battles, women's fiercest enemy has been tradition, and its staunch ally: religion.
For today’s international monetary system, the perfect – an unattainable single central bank and currency – should not be made the enemy of the good.
For centuries, China’s foreign policy has been characterized by the belief that the enemy of an enemy is a friend.
It is no coincidence that historical episodes of unification of countries coincided with situations in which external threats or a common enemy created large benefits from centralizing defense and foreign policy.
“Lance refused to become a statistic and instead rallied and became cancer’s worst enemy,” wrote a reviewer of his first book.
Until then, all means are legitimate when fighting a powerful and wicked enemy.
In the aftermath of World War II, a group of idealistic Frenchmen bent on reconciliation with their former enemy declared that France would have “the Germany she deserved.”
More an enemy of Israeli-Arab reconciliation than of Israel as such, the Mullahs’ resort to an incendiary anti-Jewish, pan-Islamic discourse is aimed at ending Iran’s isolation and presenting its regional ambitions in a light palatable to the Sunni masses.
In an Arab Middle East, Iran is the natural enemy; in an Islamic world, Iran is a potential leader.
Yet, when Indians watch Israel take the fight to the enemy, killing those who launched rockets against it and dismantling many of the sites from which the rockets flew, some cannot resist wishing that they could do something similar in Pakistan.
When we meet the enemy, we will discover that it is us.
Chess is about total victory, a Clausewitzian battle for the “center of gravity” and the eventual elimination of the enemy, whereas weiqi is a quest for relative advantage through a strategy of encirclement that avoids direct conflict.
When threatened, countries tend to group together against a common enemy.
When the world was divided into two camps during the Cold War, deciding who was an enemy and who a friend seemed easy.
Asian disunity can be overcome only if Asia as a whole confronts a common enemy.
The West will do everything possible to prevent Asians from viewing Westerners as that enemy.
But military operations that kill or injure civilians often do not automatically qualify as crimes, as long as deliberately inflicting pain or humiliation on a helpless individual – even if he or she is an enemy – is not the aim.
And, while the two countries signed agreements in 1993 and 1996 that promised a peaceful settlement of the border dispute that led them to war in l962, it is worth noting that, just prior to India’s nuclear tests in March l998, India’s defense minister described China as India’s “potential enemy number one.”
From the outset of this conflict, it was clear that our Coalition had to go on the offensive against an enemy without country or conscience.
But the enemy cannot win militarily.
Others saw the US as the primary enemy.
Then there were those who preferred not to fight any enemy at all, particularly the US, whose long-term war-making power, the government knew, far surpassed Japan’s own.
Although it made clear Japan’s desire to take advantage of the European conflict and gain a foothold in the European colonies in Southeast Asia, the plan was not clear about who constituted Japan’s true enemy.
Rather than telling Japan that the US was determined to search for a diplomatic solution, America’s categorical reaction confirmed it to the Japanese as an arrogant and conceited enemy.
“Putinism” is predicated on the need for an enemy, and that enemy, at least since 2003, is the West.
BackNext