Sentence examples for was a warlord from inspiring English sources
To his critics, he was a warlord in uniform.
Like Mr. Jumblatt, Mr. Geagea was a warlord during Lebanon's 15-year civil war.
"He was a warlord, and he was fighting since 1980," Mirwais Yasini, a member of the Afghan Parliament from Nangarhar, said of Hajji Zaman.
"He was a warlord, and he was fighting since 1980," said Mirwais Yasini, a member of the Afghan Parliament from Nangarhar.
(Kramer might have added that Trotsky, as a journalist reporting on the Balkan wars, was horrified by the violence he witnessed — but then went on to mimic it when he was a warlord in the Russian civil war).
Mr. Kabila may not be a warlord, technically.
It will also be hard to be a warlord in eastern Congo if warlords are touchy about negative publicity.
One day, Ismail Khan is a warlord, and the next he isn't.
"If Mohammed Fahim is a government minister and Ismail Khan is a warlord," one American official told me, "you're abusing the language".
There, a girl or a boy could be a warlord or a farmer, a bard or a sad sack needing protection.
