Sentence examples for defining enemies from inspiring English sources

Picking targets, defining enemies.

Defining "enemies" in this case is not always an easy task.

The more serious the dissent, the more it comes out as a sort of esoteric chumminess, with, when possible, reassuring gestures to the permanent terms of membership — which is to say the defining enemies, which is to say the left.

But at the level of perception management, the Enlightenment served exactly the same purpose as the religion that is supposed to be its mortal, defining enemy.

When Christendom launched the Crusades, the holy wars that shaped Europe, in the eleventh century, Jews were the paradigmatic enemy inside (the infidel near at hand), and Muslims became the defining enemy outside (the infidel far away).

Democrats and human rights groups objected to changes in the legislation over the weekend, as the House and White House drafted final language, including defining enemy combatants and setting rules on search warrants.

Writing from Jerusalem, historian Stefan Ihrig posits that the renewed violence in the Turkish southeast against the Kurds owes a lot to "an undigested history of violence against all sorts of ethnic and otherwise defined enemies of the Turkish state," including Armenians.

"In 1991, we had a defined enemy; we knew when the war was won.

And the courts must take care to define "enemy combatant" with precision.

America must never again start a war with no defined enemy.

But it's hard to wage a war against a poorly defined enemy.