Sentence examples for external foe from inspiring English sources

The advice that Machiavelli gave his Prince well over 4 centuries ago apparently still holds: War against an external foe is a most excellent means of distracting the populace from grievances at home.

The grand gesture, the moment of choice, the mortal danger, the external foe, the climactic battle whose outcome resolves all – all designed to appear heroic, to excite and gratify an audience… Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality – there is no audience.

In appealing to the Pentagon, the Mujahedeen are clearly reaching out to factions within the administration that have shown the most sympathy for the group, which has carried out many acts of sabotage and assassination inside Iran and which the Iranian government regards as its most powerful external foe.

And it is Maliki who now leads a country whose 700,000-strong security forces are incapable, according to US assessments, of defending it against external foes, principally Iran but also Turkey and an increasingly unpredictable Syria.

That's what happened to Tilly Evans (a terrific Allison Buck), an Ohio teenager who, until then, took refuge in the role-playing world, doing battle with any number of internal as well as external foes in a "module" (or gaming scenario) that she had created for herself.

Throughout the kingdom the only force for preserving unity remained the church, but the bishops approved the secularization of much monastic land to sustain troops who could counter the threat of external foes, thus further strengthening the power of the dukes.

Readers expect identifiable heroes defending against external foes.

Instead of looking for external foes — as Apple seems to be doing — it should be figuring out how to turn competitors into allies, as with former archfiend Bill Gates.

The breakup of the Carolingian Empire was accompanied by invasions, migrations, and raids by external foes.

The second, more core reason for Khamenei's tolerance of the Revolutionary Guard agitation is the tried and true gambit of sustaining crises with external foes as a way to compensate for the regime's legitimacy deficit.

The coup drew on opposition to the ruling Angelid dynasty among both rival aristocratic families and the common people, who were dissatisfied by the dynasty's failures against external foes.