The last time leaders named Bush, Cheney and Powell faced foreign aggression, their challenge was to marshal a skeptical public, a divided Congress and a reluctant alliance to fight the Persian Gulf war against a known foe on clear turf.
One of his sons, based in Baidoa, is a minister in the Transitional Federal Government, with which Shabaab is at war; the other son, who served in the National Army, is also a known foe of Shabaab, for he has declared himself a secularist and has often militated against the group in radio interviews.
The Ruia brothers, insisting they had the first right to buy Hutchison Telecom's stake a claim it disputes were pitted against much better known foes, Vodafone and Reliance Communications, which is controlled by Indian billionaire Anil Ambani.
The matter is controversial, especially at the Catholic Worker, where some worry that the search for miracles and other saint-making procedures will denature the Dorothy Day they knew: the foe of unrestrained capitalism and the pacifist who attended daily Mass but did not shy from criticizing the church on issues of social justice.
In her nine years there, she became known as a foe of cigarette advertising on television and radio.
WIMBLEDON, England — A statuesque blonde with sizzling ground strokes advances to her first Grand Slam final at Wimbledon and stares down a more seasoned foe known for her grit and grunts to usher in a new era in women's tennis.
As for outsiders, Randall Terry, the militant abortion foe known for creating disturbances at abortion clinics around the country with his group Operation Rescue, has set up shop here and told The Rutland Herald that he plans to stay "for the duration" of the fight.
Charles has long been known as a foe of biotechnology and genetically modified food, but last week's 22-minute outburst was more of an attack on the scientific endeavor as a whole.
Know your foes: They'll be a lot of admirers but also jealous haters you'll try and get you down.
Now, the act — known to its foes as Obamacare, and to the cognoscenti as ObamaRomneycare — isn't easy to love, since it's very much a compromise, dictated by the perceived political need to change existing coverage and challenge entrenched interests as little as possible.
A Muslim who, as a civil rights lawyer, had represented fellow Muslims beguiled by fundamentalist visions, Khan would have known that political foes, not least among journalists, had already been sniffing for ways to hang the "extremist" tag on him prior to next May's election.
