Sentence examples for long-standing enemy from inspiring English sources

Eritrea supported al-Shabaab as an indirect means of attacking Ethiopia, its long-standing enemy.

He said there is nothing strange about Chechens fighting alongside their long-standing enemy, Russia.

Then Turkish tanks and warplanes entered Syria last week and began targeting the Kurds, their long-standing enemy.

Accusations that Eritrea was supporting the Somali group as a means of attacking its long-standing enemy, Ethiopia, had prompted the security council to impose an arms embargo on the country in 2009.

Some of Iran's conservatives, though, fear that he could become an Iranian Gorbachev, a man whose attempts to reform the system and make peace with a long-standing enemy could lead to its downfall.The Revolutionary Guard could, by obstructing the inspections the deal requires, do a lot to derail a more durable follow-up agreement.

In effect, it brought France into the war against its long-standing enemy, Britain.

Still, it will be a first to have these long-standing enemies at the same table, though seated well apart.

At the end of the 1980s, the fall of the Berlin wall was the chance for many of his long-standing enemies to declare his plays redundant.

Equally emphatic are Blair's long-standing enemies, and new ones in the Murdoch camp, who peddle the story over dinner.

When Alboin succeeded his father, Audoin, about 565, the Lombards occupied Noricum and Pannonia (now in Austria and western Hungary), while their long-standing enemies the Gepidae bordered them on the east in Dacia (now Hungary).

After the almost nonexistent fight Tyson knocked Seldon out in less than two minutes Knight, Tupac, and their entourage were on the way out of the M.G.M. Grand when they came upon Orlando Anderson, a reputed member of the Southside Crips, the Bloods' long-standing enemies.