Sentence examples for outside foes from inspiring English sources

The great extended family or clan, its members forever battling among themselves and just as reliably uniting against outside foes, is these days more at home on television than in the pages of serious fiction.

"We used to blame outside foes for the closure, but after five years we feel the government is also to blame," says Wesam Afifa, the editor of Al-Resalah, a Hamas newspaper.In the meantime, Hamas leaders seem increasingly content to enjoy the fruits of splendid isolation.

In particular, some weaker states have pursued chemical weapons programs as deterrents to being attacked by enemies that have either stronger conventional forces or their own weapons of mass destruction, and some regimes have used chemical weapons to threaten especially vulnerable foes outside and even within their own borders.

There is consensus that Iraqi security forces are becoming increasingly effective at domestic counterinsurgency but could hardly stand up to a conventional foe from outside the nation's borders.

When we face a threat we can't protect ourselves from as individuals, we metaphorically circle the wagons, and anyone inside our circles - those who share our race or gender or nationality or socioeconomic class or religion or general beliefs and values - is friend, and anyone outside those circles is foe.

The launch of the censored Google in 2006 was highly controversial outside China, causing fans and foes of Google to question the "Don't do evil" company motto.

As the fate of Obamacare was being argued inside the Supreme Court, a far more boisterous, unruly demonstration was happening among Obamacare foes and supporters outside.

Likewise, City 17 has been altered to reflect the aftermath of the resistance's open rebellion, with vast swathes of destroyed buildings, and the introduction of foes previously kept outside its confines in Half-Life 2 to emphasize the scale of the uprising.

Traditionally what brings us together is a common foe, something from outside we can agree that we fear more than each other, or ourselves.

The most dangerous and implacable foes of Indian rule fall outside the Hurriyat's large tent.

Facing three determined candidates, a restive electorate and foes who have plenty of outside "independent" money to keep them going, the math of reaching a majority may be too daunting.