Sentence examples for brutal foe from inspiring English sources

Their apologists described how they were "driven to it" by a cruel and brutal foe.

No other corporate citizen of a nation that a generation before had been a bitter and brutal foe played such a role.

No other corporate citizen of a nation that a generation before had been a bitter and brutal foe had played such a role (see sidebar).

It also claims that there is no regime or foe, however brutal, that cannot be weakened by non-violent means.

Inevitably the conflicts that fuel the play — between Macbeth and his foes, Macbeth and his wife, Macbeth and the brutal fate his actions have brought about — feel muted by the one-man, many-voices concept.

It is uniquely brutal in its treatment of foes and uniquely competent as a propagandist.

But many Syrians, Western diplomats and international aid groups doubted the sincerity of what Russia termed a "large-scale humanitarian operation," contending that Russia had previously shown little concern for the plight of civilians in rebel-held areas and that the Syrian government had frequently employed brutal siege tactics against its foes.

Now the president is suffering not merely from defections in the conservative camp, a crash in oil income, and an unprecedentedly brutal verbal pummelling from his political foes.

During World War II, the United States teamed up with our foe the Soviet Union to defeat the brutal dictator Adolf Hitler.

But figures like Mr. Goniwe paid a high price for their commitment inside the country to resistance that blurred the lines between civic defiance and support for the violent armed struggle once advocated by Mr. Mandela — even as the white authorities considered responses that ranged from the co-option of their foes, to surveillance and control, to brutal repression.

For the arriving veterans, though, their biggest foe may not be North Dakota's police, but its brutal cold. .