Sentence examples for malign actor from inspiring English sources

They've even given the charts a name: "Malign Actor Networks".

(A sidebar note: Readers of coverage of A.W.K. henceforth should cast a knowing and cautious eye on anonymously sourced rants that depict Karzai as a "malign actor," which is the term of art at Central Command now that "warlord" and "terrorist" are out of fashion.

Beat the insurgents and malign actors to the headlines".

The strategy, he said, must address how we manage malign actors and improve the management of contracts.

It turns out, of course, that some of the same "malign actors" the diplomats and officers are railing against are on the payroll of the C.I.A.

US strategy in the south has been to try to build the influence of formal institutions and government officials against such informal "malign actors".

"And you have military or politically driven timelines and locations which make no sense, or which force us into alliances with the very malign actors that are powerfully part of the broader battles we are fighting," the official said.

As they prepared their Kandahar offensive last summer, a British-led command group came to the conclusion the real trouble in Kandahar was not the Taliban but what became known as "malign actors".

The problem of "malign actors" such as AWK could only be solved not by military force, but by a political process: President Karzai had to find a means to divorce himself from the warlords such as his brother and broaden the base of his political rule.

"My views of treating allies with respect and also being clear-eyed about both malign actors and strategic competitors are strongly held and informed by over four decades of immersion in these issues," Mattis writes.

Yet they may be the most malign actors in the region today.