Sentence examples for historic adversary from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Adams said the assessment of Mr. Trimble, his party's historic adversary, was "not true".

Senior members of Congress were already pressing for assurances from Pakistan that the American military assistance would be used to fight the insurgency, and not be siphoned off for more conventional military programs to counter Pakistan's historic adversary, India.

Some of the socialist grassroots, however, still align with Podemos in arguing that this is a de facto alliance with the right, and compromise with a historic adversary now further tainted by corruption scandals.

The war was a basic confusion of tactics with strategy; the United States ought to have built up Vietnam to play as a counter to its historic adversary, China, just as recognition of China played a part in containing the Soviet Union.

And Cuba's relationship with the Castro brothers' historic adversary, the United States, has been transformed.

That is the only correct path". Vietnam's decision to distance itself from Moscow and Eastern Europe have inevitably pushed the government closer to China, an historic adversary with which it fought a brief war in 1979.

Still, it's not easy turning historic adversaries into tight-knit teams.

"I heard explosions, so I called friends, who said there was an attack from the Turkish border," says Hagop.No Turkish invasion materialised, but Anjar's residents are adamant their historic adversaries were the masterminds behind the attack.

The historic adversaries who came together in the peace process -- the mainly Catholic republicans favoring the eventual reunification of Ireland, and the mainly Protestant unionists who are pledged to maintain the six counties of the North as a British province -- said the bombing would have no effect on their determination to move ahead with the power-sharing accord.

They have shown, even recently, that they are ready to abandon the power-sharing arrangements that have taken root under the 1998 Good Friday agreement if they sense, at any time, that their historic adversaries in the mostly Catholic Republican ranks are stealing a march on them.

The decades-old disputes between advocates for fish and the farmers who are their historic adversaries appeared to dissolve as almost all of 26 user groups, tribes and governments involved backed a plan to allocate the waters of a dam-free river.