Sentence examples for capable enemies from inspiring English sources

The Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud was among those who, threatened by her liberal secularist principles and her promises to crack down on the militant Islamists, spoke of sending suicide bombers, but Bhutto believed that her most dangerous and capable enemies were in the government.

Moreover, the new U.S. strategy is not anymore based on the ability given to the U.S. military to fight simultaneously against two "capable" enemies but instead that Washington would fight a conflict in one region while simply "denying the objectives of -- or imposing unacceptable costs on -- an opportunistic aggressor in a second region".

The NRF aims to operate either on its own or as a force that buys time before reinforcements arrive.The NRF's big live-fire exercises will also, General Breedlove notes, help sharpen techniques for high-intensity "kinetic" warfare against a more conventional but also more capable enemy.

Some Zerg units are capable of infesting enemies with various parasites that range from being able to see what an enemy unit sees to spawning Zerg inside an enemy unit.

The battle of Fallujah demonstrated how American armed forces are supremely capable of dislodging enemies who attempt to stand and fight, but it did little to tackle the insurgency in Iraq that tied down 150,000 American soldiers and cost of tens of thousands of Iraqi and American lives.The Taliban may have learned that lesson.

This item makes Mario temporarily invincible to most hazards and capable of defeating enemies on contact.

Both are powerful enemies capable of returning to remind us of what is always already within.

Otherwise Europe once again might find itself enmeshed in a long, dark period of hate and animosity from which it will be hard to return, and which will - as in the past - result in friends becoming enemies, capable of unthinkable monstrosities.

(2015) recently demonstrated that the diversity of natural enemies capable of controlling herbivores on soybean is dependent on the surrounding forest.

The Mega Mushroom provides complete invincibility, and is capable of destroying many enemies (excluding boss enemies) with one hit.

Mounting a defence against intercontinental ballistic missiles assumes an enemy capable of building them and loading them with nuclear bombs.