Given the size and fertility of the areas controlled by the Macedonian kings, there was huge potential for military achievement, provided Macedon's chronic enemies and invaders could be appeased or crushed.
NEWS In awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union on Friday, the Norwegian Nobel Committee endorsed the organization's creation story — that it has kept chronic enemies from repeating the horrors of two world wars.
FRANKFURT — In awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union on Friday, the Norwegian Nobel Committee endorsed the organization's creation story — that it has kept chronic enemies from repeating the horrors of two world wars, and remains essential for that reason.
Anticommunists were captives of chronic threats from the enemy, losing subjectivity their integrity of mind.
Strengthening the security forces will be expensive, but cheaper than trying to garrison Afghanistan permanently with Western troops.At the same time, the West needs to get serious about the enemy within: the chronic corruption and ineffectiveness of Mr Karzai's administration, whose many failures are pushing disappointed Afghans into the hands of the insurgency.
A combination of flawed intelligence, book-cooking, random "body-counts" and wishful thinking led to chronic underestimates of the strength of the enemy.
What enemy could be bigger than chronic (incurable) disease and disability?
After seven years of war, Afghanistan presents a unique set of problems: a rural-based insurgency, an enemy sanctuary in neighboring Pakistan, the chronic weakness of the Afghan government, a thriving narcotics trade, poorly developed infrastructure, and forbidding terrain.
It is very important to come to the stage where you understand that the chronic pain, or your body, is not the enemy.
The Cold War is a chronic war-preparation system against the possible aggression of an enemy.
Some 57 Bristol Beauforts had been diverted to other theatres, leaving a chronic shortage of torpedo bombers in Britain at a time when a major enemy naval operation was expected.
