Sentence examples for ideal enemy from inspiring English sources

Surely a fictionalised version of al-Qaeda is an ideal enemy for a modern-day spy.

Because France declined on the world stage as the United States rose, the cultural anthropologist and marketing guru G. Clotaire Rapaille says in the film, "Americans are the ideal enemy".

The people of San Martino made ideal enemies, since in our minds they were all Fascists.

If we allow this fear to make us forsake our ideals, the enemy has already won.

DU is less radioactive than natural uranium, but its high density and hardness make it ideal for attacking enemy tank armour.

There are some problems with plants and blocks, signs and the like getting in the way of the camera and obscuring frenzied combat situations which isn't ideal when your enemy's a massive tank.

There are some problems with plants and blocks, signs and the like getting in the way of the camera and obscuring frenzied combat situations – which isn't ideal when your enemy's a massive tank.

Vanessa R. Bowman, an American spokeswoman, said the area was "an ideal environment to conceal enemy support bases and training sites, as well as plan and launch attacks aimed at terrorizing innocent civilians".

In 1950, Eric Erikson observed: Adolescents not only help each other temporarily through much discomfort by forming cliques and by stereotyping themselves, their ideals and their enemies; they also perversely test each other's capacity to pledge fidelity.

The ideal is very often the enemy of the real.

The Soviets deduced that although tank formations in Spain were not large enough to perform an ideal mechanized penetration of an enemy's lines, too large tank formations were also not ideal due to uneven terrain preventing their use en masse.