It was just a year ago that President Bush cast North Korea as a member of an "axis of evil," a collection of states with policies inimical to Washington and with ambitions to develop weapons of mass destruction that needed to be neutralized.
But on the same day that some Bush administration officials made that allegation, June 9, Pakistan launched a coordinated military operation against inimical elements associated with the terrorist groups in South Waziristan, as was widely reported in the American press.
He won international fame in 1955 with the publication of his memoir of the Nazi occupation of his homeland, The Cretan Runner, which was translated with inimical lyricism by Patrick Leigh Fermor (later Sir Patrick), who had been parachuted on to the island to help organise the resistance.
They're like black or gay Republicans, gay Catholics, gay or female Islamists, or Jewish Marxists, incongruously supporting individuals and institutions that are significantly inimical to them, with a logic and intellectualism that can be breathtakingly circuitous and an enthusiasm that can appear outsized and troubled.
Such an identity should not be seen as inimical to, or incompatible with, Britishness or a multinational British state.
If Lee wanted to avoid the appearance of making advertisements on behalf of the excluded, he could confront inimical and offensive realities with overt polemics — in his best work, such as "Do the Right Thing," he does exactly this.
It was barely a piffling tenth of the 52-year-Garner-wait between Bloodtide (1999), volume one of Melvin Burgess's sanguinary, addictive retelling of the Volsung Saga, and Bloodsong, volume two, but I longed many times in the interim to revisit his inimical futuristic London, peopled with half-men, wounded gods, sex-crazed teens and man-eating pigs.
In its global pursuit of sources of energy and raw materials to fuel its economic growth, China has strengthened bonds with countries distinctly inimical to American interests, including Venezuela, Sudan, Zimbabwe and most crucially Iran, a big supplier of oil to China.
Slow-motion running, intended to convey the nightmarish quality of contending with a suddenly inimical environment, came off as though the shiny-haired stars of Baywatch had decided to have a gallop through the Somme, especially when performed by a muddy-faced but generically attractive corps de ballet in trimly fitting uniforms.
The military theorist Basil Liddell Hart, who was gassed at the Somme and inimical to Haig, helped Lloyd George with his memoirs and then did the same for Alan Clark, whose 1961 book The Donkeys inspired the musical Oh What a Lovely War! which in turn inspired Blackadder.
Ultimately, many philosophers became convinced that Carnap's conventionalist program was fundamentally flawed.[3] This reaction dovetailed with additional developments inimical to conventionalism.
