Sentence examples for potential enemy of from inspiring English sources

The only potential enemy of the regime, terrified by the implications of the Arab spring, is its own population.

Their main worry was not a potential enemy of the United States, but one of America's closest friends.

If someone in a communal apartment shut off the radio, he was considered suspect, defiant, a potential "enemy of the people".

The Mongols remained a strong potential enemy of China for the next century, and the Genghis Khan clan in Mongolia continued to regard itself as the legitimate ruler of China.

But that is essentially the long-running Saudi deal, which came BAE's way nearly 20 years ago because the then members of Congress would not allow American contractors to supply a potential enemy of Israel.With oil now at its highest sustained price level since 1983, this deal should be providing a fat cash cushion behind which BAE could stuff lots of other losses this year.

Indeed, what security does NATO offer vis-a-vis Russia (not an official or even potential enemy, of course) when half of Western Europe is desperately dependent on Russian oil and gas?

A Pentagon official said that American analysts were examining several other potential enemies of Ms. Bhutto, including elements of Pakistani Taliban groups and other Islamic extremists.

The people here are working on the remaining 6,000, with the priority given to those from the Stasi's "Main Department No. 20," which dealt with those considered potential enemies of the state.

The advent of Tito's communist regime in 1945 did little to improve matters, since its attempt to bring the perpetrators of the ethnic violence to justice was subordinated to its drive to eliminate real and potential enemies of the Communist party.

Kelsen goes on to count as coercive acts such things as detaining those suspected of crimes, detaining for protective custody, detaining of the insane, detaining in internment camps potential enemies of the state, and the confiscation or destruction of property (Kelsen 1967 [1934], 40 41).

Many of the people he is attempting to paint as potential enemies of the U.S. are citizens.