Sentence examples for of foreign foes from inspiring English sources

We become cheerleaders for western foreign policy, in other words, feeding the demonisation of foreign foes that is a necessary precondition for conflict.

He recently lobbied Latvia's legislature to adopt a law requiring that the government approve the sale of major media companies, so that they never fall under the control of foreign foes.

The Republican convention in Cleveland was overwhelmingly white and elderly, and with its ad hominem attacks on Mrs. Clinton and denunciations of foreign foes, often had the air of a prize fight.

You have called us, and we're coming, by Richmond's bloody tide To lay us down, for freedom's sake, our brother's bones beside; Or from foul treason's savage group to wrench the murderous blade, And in the face of foreign foes its fragments to parade; Six hundred thousand loyal men and true have gone before: We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more!

Mr. Assad's supporters have long contended that his wide array of foreign foes, including the United States, Israel and Sunni-led Persian Gulf states, benefit less from a resolution than from a prolonged Syrian conflict that weakens Mr. Assad and his allies, Iran and Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite militant group.

"The next Administration," he said, "must continue the wise policy undertaken by the government now in power in Washington, the policy of keeping the nation at peace in a war-mad world while building up a national defense so stout, so strong, that no combination of foreign foes will dare to attack us.

Left-leaning politicians are especially susceptible, as they are seen as soft on foreign foes.

The notion that a candidate would take the side of a foreign foe of the United States while negotiating business deals in that country should be seen as wholly unacceptable, perhaps even an attempt to defraud voters.

There was no small irony, as well, in Kennan's elevation of American domestic behavior to the core of its fight against foreign foes.

The only country that appeared to be following the Cuban pattern was Nicaragua under the Sandinista revolutionary government, which in the end could not withstand the onslaughts of its domestic and foreign foes.

The epithet "Terrible" is in fact a mistranslation from the Russian-language word "Groznyi" which in reality means "stern," "formidable," "feared by enemies". Ivan's long reign was marked by violent internal conflict and a series of wars against many foreign foes sparked by his desire to expand Muscovy's frontiers, especially along and beyond the Volga river and to the Baltic seacoast in the west.