Sentence examples for intractable foe from inspiring English sources
The most recent cited her as "an intractable foe of vandals and rapacious developers".
Later that year, he led auto workers in a bitter, 67-day strike against the General Motors Corporation, which was regarded as the U.A.W.'s most intractable foe.
The walls of the apartment were covered with plaques and tributes: "Intractable Foe of Vandals and Rapacious Developers," "In Recognition of Successful Advocacy for Preservation," a framed letter from Bill Clinton.
For years during the long U.S. occupation of Iraq, Muqtada Sadr was an intractable foe, blamed by the Pentagon for hundreds of deaths of American service members, as well as atrocities against Iraqi civilians.
As NATO expanded to include formerly Communist nations that were once intractable foes, new buildings went up around the base to accommodate new partners.
During the nine-year tenure of President Mikheil Saakashvili, the pop charts have been an open battleground between those loyal to him and his policies, and his intractable foes.
The new president has brought together two formerly intractable and unrelenting foes: the pro-Lifers and pro-Choicers.
They can rule, to be sure: but only until the foe that has destroyed countless regimes before them – Afghanistan itself, intractable, restless, chaotic, ungovernable – destroys them, too.
Now he is taking on an even more intractable foe the foot-draggers, time-servers and other rogues who notionally work for him.
Unfortunately, corruption remained intractable.
