Sentence examples for warlords against from inspiring English sources

In 1924 Tang Shengzhi aligned himself with northern warlords against the warlord controlling Guangdong, who was aligned with the Kuomintang.

It actually backed the warlords against the Union of the Islamic Courts (UIC), which was trying to bring some stability to the country.

Yet it is hard to ignore the toll of these sporadic attacks, not pitting one warlord against the other, but bright young men and women against those determined to reverse the gains.

In turn, foundation members accused Imam Sherzad of exceeding his role as a spiritual leader by supporting certain warlords fighting against the Taliban.

The challenge for Unesco in this region is that it is up against governments who are unable to defend heritage against their own military and, in Afghanistan, against warlords and the Taliban.

In the spring of 1922 Sun attempted to launch a northern campaign as an ally of the Manchurian warlord, Zhang Zuolin Chang Tso-linn), against the Zhili clique, which by now controlled Beijing.

Embroiled in the machinations of her godfather — a minister unseen during the opera, who plots to topple a corrupt regime in the Han court of China about A.D. 220 — Diao accepts the role of seductress, pitting the ruthless warlord Dong Zhuo against his godson, the ambitious Gen. Lu Bu.

Most notably Fazl, who has been accused of many horrifying war crimes and human rights abuses, and Noori had surrendered in 2001 to Abdul Rashid Dostum, who is now Afghanistan's vice president, but at the time was a warlord battling against the Taliban, in northern Afghanistan.

The agency paid powerful warlords to fight against the Taliban during the 2001 invasion.

He commanded a small force against warlords, was defeated and may have run away.

Soon afterwards he was diverted to Afghanistan, where various warlords were operating against the British.