Strife raged as the Emperor persecuted the Nicholaites, who had organized as persistent adversaries to the Euthymian party.
"A President, these days, is an invaluable clerk," Richard Neustadt, the dean of Presidential theorists, pointed out in 1960.The clerk at the time was Dwight Eisenhower, the general and war hero twice elected in landslides, only to be frustrated, like so many popular Presidents before and since, in skirmishes with well-organized adversaries on Capitol Hill.
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They are designed and organized to be controlled by an adversary.
But isolated and outnumbered as they were, the Jews were far better organized, motivated, financed, equipped and trained than their adversaries, who were so fragmented — by geography and tradition and clan — that the term "Palestinian" was either unwarranted or at least premature.
If the Sultan submits without resistance, or if he succeeds in convincing his adversaries that it was not he who organized the revolution of Tuesday last [April 13] and can persuade them that the Constitution is not menaced, a peaceful arrangement is still possible.
When he finally left South Africa in 1914, after having organized a small and frequently trampled-upon Indian minority into a significant political force, his greatest Afrikaner adversary, Gen. Jan Smuts, was relieved enough to write to a friend, "The saint has left our shores, I hope, forever".
Reppetto explains that in addition to certain serendipitous factors -- like the bizarre refusal of J. Edgar Hoover even to acknowledge the existence of organized crime -- Italian-American gangs were more disciplined than other ethnic gangs and better organized than their law-enforcement adversaries.
Mark E. Feldman, the chief of organized crime prosecution for the United States attorney's office in Brooklyn, said the command structure of the mob that permits leadership succession and the Mafia's machinery for illegal profit have made it a durable adversary.
In this view, Al Qaeda is not a defining ideological adversary so much as a stateless, lethal criminal enterprise without any real historical antecedent, and Bush's war in Iraq has nothing to do with the campaign against organized terrorists — except perhaps to swell their ranks by recklessly throwing around America's military might.
People think of it as computer hacking, whereas the way it's actually used or techplanned to be used is much more organized, has much more profound consequences, and uses our military capabilities as much more of an alternative to deal with an adversary.
