Sentence examples for phantom enemy from inspiring English sources
Reversing this argument, Dr Ashok Mitra, former finance minister of West Bengal, in an article called "The Phantom Enemy", argues that the "grisly serial murders" that the Maoists are committing are a classic tactic, learned from guerrilla warfare textbooks.
But in the case of Iraq, monumental resources have been squandered on disarming a phantom enemy while the real enemy has operated essentially with impunity on the Afghan-Pakistani border.
Inflation is still more a threat than a reality, and some economists think the Fed is again proving too willing to sacrifice jobs and prosperity in a fight against a phantom enemy.
"In an age when all the grand ideas have lost credibility, fear of a phantom enemy is all the politicians have left to maintain their power".
Wherever one looks for this Al Qaeda organization, from the mountains of Afghanistan to the 'sleeper cells' in America, the British and Americans are chasing a phantom enemy".
But our Maginots are still hunkered in their bunkers, demanding measures that were never cost-effective and often counter-productive against a phantom enemy.
Distracted and debilitated, Ford's leadership team spent years battling phantom enemies while the real foe, General Motors, gobbled up market share.
Some held American flags as they chanted, "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" There have been reports from elsewhere about mosques being attacked and Muslims and Sikhs being harassed because, in the words of Siva Vaidhyanathan, a cultural historian at the University of Wisconsin, they "resemble a phantom image of an enemy".
As warplanes buzzed the skies over New York and Secret Service agents toting machine guns appeared outside the White House, past and present national security officials talked of war, but the enemy remained a phantom.
On the return flight, the Phantom was damaged by an enemy surface-to-air missile.
The navy claimed 40 air-to-air victories at a cost of 73 Phantoms lost in combat (seven to enemy aircraft, 13 to SAMs, and 53 to AAA).
