Sentence examples for has no warlord from inspiring English sources

Hekmatyar, for instance, has "no warlord fashion sense"; the Afghans are "charming, semi-civilized, and utterly untrustworthy.

Nabi may have evolved into what President Karzai has feared most: a battle-tested, salaried warlord who has no official allegiance to the Afghan government.

But the warlords there have no religious agenda, so they were always unlikely to embrace a foreign warlord with apocalyptic goals.

Not only did he have no power to stop the warlords, he said, "we can't prevent the terrorists from coming from Pakistan.

The countryside was dominated by warlords who had no political legitimacy and who ruthlessly exploited the villages they controlled.

But perhaps an even greater consideration for the Tang rulers, aware that imperial dependence on powerful aristocratic families and warlords would have destabilizing consequences, was to create a body of career officials having no autonomous territorial or functional power base.

Afghanistan was indeed a failed state in the middle of the last decade, as no sooner had the warlords who controlled the mujahideen ejected the Russians than they turned on each other and their countrymen with ferocity.

They contend that the government has enabled warlords.

After 15 years of civil war and no government, an Islamist army has swept aside warlords and firmly asserted its control.

Abdullah's supporters in the Northern Alliance and among various warlords — Ghani had his own warlord constituency — did not want him to back down.

Mr. Stepanenko, in more relaxed moments, confides suspicions that Russia's human rights movement has been financing warlords in Chechnya.