Sentence examples for convenient foe from inspiring English sources
This was about creating a convenient foe for the working class to blame while their real enemies in the Conservative party are free to pursue the policies that have kept them down for centuries.
Collapsing oil prices have sharply curtailed his ability to buy public sympathies, and Barack Obama's election has removed the United States as a convenient foe to be berated as needed to energize his base.
Some suggest that billing North Korea as a cyber villain is a convenient foe for the US.
There is also evidence that streaming could reduce piracy, by offering a cheap, legal and convenient way to listen to music.Other distribution services have transformed from foe to financier.
The tale originated several years after the company's launch as what Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph called "a convenient fiction" to describe to consumers how the service differed from its foe, Blockbuster: no due dates, no late fees.
But given the fact that one of the Obama campaign's central planks in international affairs calls for hard-nosed negotiations with implacable foes, Plouffe's explanation for stalled talks seemed like a convenient (if elegant) excuse.
