Friends and Foes

Once again, my foes did this.

Foes of the Taliban, with few friends in government

By 2020, these old foes will be drinking from the same tap.

Aristide's foes merely had to refuse to bargain in order to plunge Haiti into chaos.

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

In robot mode, he prefers to use his electron scimitar to fight foes one on one.

The regime s foes, on the other hand, seem undeterred by the killings, continuing to stage protests across Syria.

An important part of that war will consist of shaping the foes of terrorism into a durable alliance.

All the same, manipulation by powerful countries and the foes of human rights have left the CHR in bad shape.

What I ve concluded in the midst of all of this, is that friends have many faces, and so do foes.

Yet, even if the two countries can be considered historical and contemporary foes, that reality wasn't evident at the Turkish border point.

Most, now, are from Syria and as the speechwriters acknowledged are fleeing the war there with its brutal foes on both sides.

Though the Syrian and Iraqi Baath parties were bitter foes, there was consolation in that both were members of a confederacy of despotisms.

Though nationalist sentiment directed against external foes tends to divert attention temporarily from internal turmoil, the country s serious domestic problems need to be addressed.

He invited citizens and the Supreme Leader to forgive each other, and this provoked a strong reaction on the Internet, from both friends and foes.

There was a forum where Israelis and their long term Arab foes could sit together and discuss other matters than the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

Liberalism, of course, has faced enemies before Schmitt among them, for, as Hitler's Crown Jurist, he was among those who posed as irreconcilable foes of Weimar liberalism.

For some countries that are blessed with vast supplies of oil and gas, the use of energy exports to reward friends and punish foes seems a tempting option.

Secular, military, and Mubarak era foes of the Muslim Brotherhood have used every lever at their disposal, democratic or not, to block the Islamist parties democratic exercise of power.

Given the obvious benefits of having access to more territory in which to gather and hunt, outsiders particularly those who bear characteristics that mark them as genetically distant were treated as foes.

Yushchenko offered his hand to his foes in good faith so as to bind up our nation s wounds in return, the governing pact that he reached with Yanukovich was betrayed at every turn.

Thaksin s yellow clad royalist foes, the People s Alliance for Democracy (PAD), took to the streets against him again in 2008, as the judiciary ordered the dissolution of his party for the second time.

Yushchenko offered his hand to his foes in good faith so as to bind up our nation s wounds in return, the governing pact that he reached with Yanukovych was betrayed at every turn.

Recognizing the opposition as the legitimate government of Syria, as was done in Libya, would give Assad s foes a boost, but, so far, they lack the gravitas that such a bold measure would require.

Peace will be won by the moderate voices around the world that demand an end to senseless violence and to the tragic illusions of those who believe in a final victory over their foes.

The New START agreement between the US and Russia, while a step in the right direction, will only skim the surface off the former Cold War foes bloated nuclear arsenals which account for 95 of the global total.

The impossible deadlines, the always ambiguous information the president is fed, and the complex choices that he must make are too frequently bound to clash with political constraints and the resistance to change of both allies and foes.

Written another way, Dragolea, the name means of love or the lovely one hardly fitting for a man who developed the unlovely habit of lancing his foes on a stake, from which the nickname Tepes (the Impaler) was derived.

The secular argument that Morsi s lust for power jeopardized Egypt s nascent democracy does not bear scrutiny. Secular, military, and Mubarak era foes of the Muslim Brotherhood have used every lever at their disposal, democratic or not, to block the Islamist parties democratic exercise of power.

Thaksin s yellow clad royalist foes, the People s Alliance for Democracy (PAD), took to the streets against him again in 2008, as the judiciary ordered the dissolution of his party for the second time. In April 2009, and again in April May 2010, the disenfranchised red shirts camped in the streets of Bangkok to demand new elections, but were dispersed by the army, with 91 fatalities.

Key military figures tacit backing for the Turkish Parliament s refusal to endorse the March 2003 US led invasion of Iraq suggests that Turkish nationalism could unite the AKP s rank and file MPs with their otherwise implacable foes in the secular camp. If the EU were to snub Turkey openly over membership, or if America were to seem too lax on the Kurdish problem in Northern Iraq, a huge swathe of the two camps could well unite.