Sentence examples for influential enemies from inspiring English sources

The judge had many influential enemies.

While attracting throngs of penitents, converts, and the faithful, his apostolate also created some influential enemies.

Finally, in 1837, Pushkin was mortally wounded defending his wife's honour in a duel forced on him by influential enemies.

The newspaper's efforts to uncover official corruption, particularly within the police, earned him many influential enemies, people familiar with the newspaper said.

He served as Mr. Putin's finance minister and made it his mission to steer oil revenues into a stabilization fund, creating influential enemies behind the scenes.

As Mr. Putin's finance minister, Mr. Kudrin made it his mission to steer oil revenues into a stabilization fund, and he made influential enemies.

By 1914 Maurras's movement, though still relatively small, was the most coherent and influential enemy of the republic.

Maybe he doesn't want to make an influential enemy in the incestuous policy world where he continues to work (he is the president-designate of the Brookings Institution).

The most able and influential enemy of modality (both de dicto and de re) was W. V. Quine, who vigorously defended both the following theses.

Politicians have short-term goals: They need to win elections, give away perks and privileges to remain influential, fight enemies foreign and domestic, and just plain look "powerful" (which involves slamming fists on tables from time to time).

In a tour in early May of Córdoba, a state in the north that is the traditional heart of the paramilitary movement, it was clear that contrary to the government's assertions, the paramilitaries enjoyed a lock-down control that made them more influential than the traditional enemies of the state, the left-wing guerrillas, ever were.