Sentence examples for exterior enemy from inspiring English sources

With an exterior enemy distracting Somalis from their clan divisions, Al Shabab's insurgents gained support among some clan powerbrokers while at the same time terrorizing the people into submission.

Anti-communism is mostly a fight against an interior enemy, although the exterior enemy gives the pretext.

As mentioned above, synergistic displays of individual might and bravery against enemies can bring major improvements to a team's security, thus deserving much merit in the eyes of teammates (interior politics), such prestige yet remaining purely antagonistic in the eyes of enemy neighbors (exterior politics).

Then, although A is itself internal inasmuch as thinking takes place in my mind, nevertheless we can distinguish the interior act of willing to think well of my enemy from the exterior act thinking well of my enemy.

Weather remains its biggest enemy: precipitation pelts the exterior, and the statue endures the occasional strike of lightning.

If Hugh Jackman's Wolverine has taught us anything, it's that beneath that rock hard, muscly exterior there is more to the mutant than sneering at enemies and ripping things apart.

Isaac Bashevis Singer, in "Enemies: A Love Story," mined the poignant contrast between the carefree exterior of these summertime Edens and the inner melancholy of refugees who just a few years earlier had lost their families in Hitler's war.

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Its exterior is marble.

They're pure exterior.

Like El Escorial, it had a forbidding exterior; its interior decoration, however, like that of the splendid library of Philip II's monastery-palace, showed, literally or allegorically, Spain's victorious battles with the enemies of Catholic Christendom.