Sentence examples for longstanding adversary from inspiring English sources
The announcement was the second time in a week that the United States had softened its approach toward a longstanding adversary while insisting that its basic view had not changed.
In April, a major legal judgment set aside orders on other "banned" people, but Mrs. Mandela's status remained unclear until today.The authorities offered no explanation for the gesture toward a longstanding adversary at a time when others are being punished for their opposition to the Government.
Meanwhile, on the foreign policy front, the president is close to achieving exactly the kind of diplomatic rapprochement with longstanding adversaries that he promised when he was a candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for president back in 2008.
Rather, it has more to do with Obama's extreme caution in responding to international challenges, as in Syria and Ukraine; and his radical faith that longstanding U.S. adversaries can be converted into strategic partners.
It suggested he had hardened longstanding views about his adversaries in the face of escalating international pressure.
Nation states and social units need not be perpetual adversaries, but history teaches that longstanding conflicts are not uncommon.
There are at least two areas where the president and his adversaries may need each other to achieve longstanding goals.
But the deal was met with skepticism from adversaries, who questioned how a company with a longstanding relationship with Microsoft could be considered a rival.
Here was adversary versus adversary.
