Sentence examples for of external enemies from inspiring English sources
Stalin then was a first among equals, dominating his powerful colleagues by charm and persuasion.In the 1930s, as the supply of external enemies ran dry, the Soviet regime turned the terror inwards, in tighter and tighter circles.
This is why we create images of external enemies which we can then fight.
Russian President Vladimir Putin played on old fears of external enemies to heal his country's wounded pride while tightening his own grip on power.
He specifically targets Jews, "Westerners in general," the members of the NATO alliance, Russia, China, atheists, pagans, and hypocrites, as well as "any type of external enemy".
While blaming Iran's death spiral on external enemies of the Islamic Republic might play well in Tehran, the reality is that the Republic's economic policies cause the death spiral to spin.
We prefer to elect Democrats and Republicans who are going to honor our pretensions that every cliff is avoidable, that all reckonings that reach ourselves (as opposed to external enemies of freedom) are forever postpone-able, and that our only enemies are real choices that we would do so much better to stave off indefinitely.
More important, I think, is the advantage of conventionality to the construction of an "external enemies" plot.
In many ways, Narendra Modi and his mob are completing the unfinished business of partition: the unification of a political community through identification and persecution of internal and external enemies.
The scope or danger of 'internal and external enemies' that the ruling class confronted and their subjective sense of crisis resulted in the intensity of South Korea's anticommunism.
But the mutual hatred and possibility of an "all against all" war it seeds is still defused by periodic scapegoating, the identification of internal or external enemies, whose violent suppression releases the tension built up by frustrated desire and unappeasable envy.
TV anchors and columnists competed with each other in whipping up patriotic rage and hatred against various internal and external enemies of the idea of India.
