Sentence examples for firm enemy from inspiring English sources

Hyder, after initially trying to ally with the British against the Marathas, had later become their firm enemy, as they represented the most effective obstacle to his expansion of his kingdom, and Tipu grew up with violently anti-British feelings.

One welcome side-effect of the otherwise horrifying rise of Isis in Iraq is the sudden friendliness between Iran and the west, who now find themselves firm enemies' enemies.

Weeks before Lehman went bust in September 2008, he was telling visitors the firm's true enemies were the short-sellers betting against it.

Nor did he come up with the brilliant ideas of putting journalists covertly on the administration payroll and of hiring an outside P.R. firm (Ketchum) to codify an enemies list by ranking news organizations and individual reporters on the basis of how favorably they cover a specific administration policy (No Child Left Behind).

To brand a group a foreign terrorist organization is not only a firm declaration that it is an enemy; it also limits America's future political options.

Details of the scandal left many with the firm belief that Trafigura is an enemy of West African people at the mercy of its slops.

The boss of micro-blogging site Twitter has identified the tech giant Apple as his firm's "mentor" and Facebook its enemy, despite launching a new layout some have likened to Mark Zuckerberg's site's latest design.

"How sad that faith and discrimination seem to be firm  friends when they should be enemies".

Managers can spot the moment that an embittered salesperson copies a client database onto a flash-memory stick.Financial-services firms are particularly vulnerable to the enemy within.

Broadband Office, with funding from Sam Zell's Equity Office Property Trust and the venture capital stalwart Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, just drew $25 million each from the sworn enemies Microsoft and Sun Microsystems, valuing the firm at more than $500 million.

The love of my people hath appeared firm, and the devices of my enemies frustrate.