Sentence examples for indispensable enemy from inspiring English sources

Mr. Saxton's first historical book, "The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California," became a landmark of labor history, describing how 19th- and 20th-century labor unions used racism against Chinese immigrants as a tool for unifying and organizing white union members.

In the 1950s, his literary aspirations were quashed by McCarthyism, and Saxton changed course again: He earned a doctorate in history from UC Berkeley and became a tenured professor at UCLA, where he agitated for ethnic studies and gained prominence as the author of "The Indispensable Enemy," considered a classic in the study of race in America.

Rafsanjani, who died suddenly earlier this year at the age of eighty-two, was no less indispensable to his enemies, who saw him as the incarnation of all the flaws and failings of the revolution, its corruption and criminality.

I have a hard time crediting the theory that enemies are indispensable to the way we define ourselves, that they reinforce our identity through a sort of permanent war.

Detailed, timely information about tactical conditions is indispensable in deterring or defeating enemies, so much of contemporary military debate revolves around how best to collect, analyze and share such information.

The aircraft became quite indispensable as a means of knowing what the enemy was doing and where he was".

It allows "those measures not forbidden by international law which are indispensable for securing the complete submission of the enemy," according to the Lieber Code.

But this army alone is not enough; we must also have a cultural army, which is absolutely indispensable for uniting our own ranks and defeating the enemy".

Viewing France as the major enemy and threat, he regarded a strong Germany as indispensable.

Feeling, it turns out, is not the enemy of reason, but, as Spinoza saw it, an indispensable accomplice.

Mr. Dealey could have simply warned the Save Darfur Coalition to be exacting with their figures so that enemies could not find ways to discredit their indispensable efforts.