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enemy

e nuh mee

  • n  an opposing military force
    the enemy attacked at dawn
  • n  an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force)
  • n  any hostile group of people
    he viewed lawyers as the real enemy
  • n  a personal enemy

  • The body of a suspected Taliban fighter lies in a pickup truck; he had been killed in an ambush on the outskirts of Ghazni in March Tallying the enemy's dead as a metric of .
  • They "stand up" al-Qaeda as the enemy in Iraq, he said, even behind closed doors.
  • A Defense Department report warns of the possibility that exotic drugs or implants could create a fearsome new enemy.
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  • President Bush in International Herald Tribune
    Bush said that "to step back now would force a collapse of the Iraqi government. ...... Such a scenario would result in our troops being forced to stay in Iraq even longer and confront an enemy that is even more lethal."
  • Barack Obama in ABC News
    We can't afford to make perfect the enemy of the absolutely necessary,Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address, sounding a note of pragmatism that liberal followers rarely heard on the campaign trail.
  • Michael Mukasey in International Herald Tribune
    I'm disappointed with the decision, in so far as I understand that it will result in hundreds of actions challenging the detention of enemy combatants to be moved to federal district court,Mukasey said at a Group of Eight meeting of justice...

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