Sentence examples for on a common enemy from inspiring English sources

By turning on a "common enemy" they can temporarily forget their hatred for one another.

A society as fragmented as that of the Palestinians will not suddenly act collectively like a state and make peace with Israel based on a common enemy.

The establishment of new fundamentalist denominations in the 1930s brought to the fore long-standing divisions within the fundamentalist movement that had been held in check while they concentrated on a common enemy.

Budweiser and Pepsi have reportedly set their sights on a common enemy: Coca-Cola.

Or at the very least, let's all agree on a common enemy, because nobody really likes debt collectors anyway, do they?

One part of that policy was a close relationship with Venezuela, forged on hatred of a common enemy, the United States.

Proud of unity in the face of a common enemy.

Syriza built its political coalition in exactly the way Laclau prescribed in his key 2005 book On Populist Reason – as Essex professor David Howarth puts it, "binding together different demands by focusing on their opposition to a common enemy".

The worrying rise of right-wing populists like Donald Trump – but also Geert Wilders in Holland, Viktor Orbán in Hungary, Marine le Pen in France and UKIP in England and Wales – desperately needs challenging head-on, with a common enemy that is not "immigrants" or "Islam".

It depended fundamentally on creating a common enemy: communists and terrorists abroad, liberals and people of color at home.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Friday condemned the shrine attack on Twitter, calling Islamic State "a common enemy of Afghanistan & Pakistan".