Sentence examples for a powerful enemy from inspiring English sources

As leading strategists -- including no less than Niccolò Machiavelli himself -- have suggested, it is always risky for smaller powers to rely on a mighty patron to push back against a powerful enemy.

But it is also, in some circumstances, a powerful enemy.

He could be a powerful enemy or ally, and Suger chose to be his ally.

"This will be a war against a powerful enemy," he said.

All this dithering by Burnside left his force of 120,000 divided "in the immediate presence of a powerful enemy".

In lighting Richard's Department Store in Miami, Feder was up against a powerful enemy - the glaring Florida sun.

It was a tired fantasy with a tired story structure: All powerful enemy killing clans and making plans while other human ish) heroes meanwhile squabble about the insignificant.

It was a tired fantasy with a tired story structure: All powerful enemy killing clans making plans, other human ish) heroes meanwhile squabble about the insignificant.

There's an important aspect of Grietje's scandalous story that's usually ignored: the testimony branding her a "whore" was solicited and orchestrated by a very powerful enemy who held a personal grudge against her.

His use of guerrilla warfare to harass and eventually defeat a more powerful enemy provided a model for communist guerrilla warfare in the 20th century.

He matched Morgan's style of warfare well: strike weak targets and avoid stronger foes, confuse with feints, exaggerate strength to overawe a more powerful enemy.