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The first is Islamic fanaticism, a formidable enemy in the struggle for cultural survival.

Sent into Sangin, Afghanistan's opium-producing heartland, in 2010, the battalion faced a formidable enemy expert in the use of I.E.D.'s., losing 25 Marines in a seven-month tour, the second most of any American unit in the entire war, a Times analysis shows.

In pursuing Chernogorneft, Blavatnik and his partners made a formidable enemy: the oil company BP, which had invested heavily in Chernogorneft's parent company.

Kilcullen reminded me that there was a precedent for American success in a sustained struggle with a formidable enemy.

BAQUBA, Iraq — This spring, United States military commanders said that Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia was a group in disarray, all but finished as a formidable enemy after American and Iraqi troops had killed or captured more than three-quarters of its leaders.

On the day Kennedy was shot, America was in the midst of a cold war with a formidable enemy.

Like Heather, Daniel has so far survived his own drone-war-induced mental health issues, but in his post-drone life he's run into a formidable enemy: the U.S. government.

While M&S is one of Britain's longest-standing and best-loved retailers, in incurring the wrath of Mumsnet it is taking on a formidable enemy.

Moisture was a formidable enemy, as was the heat.

The superpower's rapid disposal of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan after September 11th 2001 and its preparations to invade Iraq had made it look like a formidable enemy.

But he did not anticipate that a formidable enemy would threaten him from the south.