Sentence examples for warlord for from inspiring English sources

Netflix purchased worldwide rights to the film, directed by Cary Fukunaga and starring Idris Elba as a sadistic warlord, for $12m£7.8m8m).

"If I don't, then I will be called a warlord for refusing the instructions of the central government," he joked, referring to United Nations headquarters.

Cornered by this fierce, well-armed insurgency, Mr. Taylor, a warlord for seven years and president for six, has promised to give up his office.

The production, now on an international tour, uses modern dress and deliberate anachronisms that seem to refer to the turmoil in the Balkans: Agamemnon is dressed much like a Bosnian warlord, for example.

In March of this year, according to an international security and intelligence official based in East Africa, American agents paid a Somali warlord for the capture in Mogadishu of an associate of Mr. Muhammad, who they hoped might help lead them to him.

But the clan warlords, for whatever calculations, were blocking aid shipments from reaching the parched interior.

There were comparable payoffs to warlords for allowing, say, electricity to flow from projects financed by the United States.

It must be able to outbid the warlords for the services of the country's armed young men.

Consequently, the illegal fishers linked themselves with local warlords for protection, placing armed militiamen on board the trawlers.

At Dayton, Richard and his team faced leaders of movements — warlords — for whom governance, providing their people with a better future, was not very important.

Somalia has veered between lawlessness and rule by warlords for most of the past two decades, providing a haven not only for pirates but also for Islamic militants.