Sentence examples for vigorous enemy from inspiring English sources

Solomon believes, as many do, that "the Catholic Church was long set up as our most vigorous enemy, and it's to be hoped, very profoundly, that this change in position will filter down through the Catholic hierarchy and make religion once more the champion of loving-kindness, and no longer the instrument of oppression".

The Luftwaffe's operations includes a note of "vigorous enemy fighter activity through which our close reconnaissance in particular is severely impeded".

Booker still faces vigorous opposition.

Zubov had been targeted by a newly vigorous hunt for internal enemies — a campaign against those who do not share in Russia's officially sanctioned mood of expansionary euphoria.

Though Meade has been criticized for not destroying the enemy by a vigorous pursuit, he had stopped the Confederate invasion and won a critical three-day battle.

To Hamas, they are the enemy within, and vigorous prosecution as well as the occasional high-profile lynching are powerful psychological tools to enforce loyalty and squelch dissent.

Grant's army lacked the large organized cavalry units that would have been better suited for reconnaissance and vigorous pursuit of a retreating enemy.

Geffen had about him a vigorous energy.

His awdl (ode) satirizing the men of Chester, his bitterest enemies, is a vigorous composition.

So his grandson, who was also my grandfather, a very strident anti-communist in the 20th century, and a vigorous opponent of Roosevelt, arch-enemy of truth and justice, and generally a tough customer.

Next commanding the frigate Raleigh out of Boston, he fought a vigorous but futile battle against superior enemy forces but managed to save most of his crew from capture.