Collocations withenemy
These are words often used in combination withenemy.
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advancing enemy
Targets would have been known transport nodes in relative proximity to the battlefield and advancing enemy troop concentrations, as far as they could be identified in time.
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bitter enemy
The countryside was seen as a pretty adornment or a bitter enemy, rather than a nostalgic panacea.
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common enemy
Nevertheless, they frequently found themselves in support of complementary ideals and campaigning against a common enemy.
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deadly enemy
We must recognise that we are faced with a deadly enemy that will strike whenever it can.
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defeated enemy
It is extremely distasteful to see victorious nations courting a defeated enemy for ideological reasons.
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determined enemy
It is a horrific story of 35 years' struggle against what can only be described as a cruel, vicious and determined enemy.
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enemy aircraft
The seas are freed now of enemy aircraft, submarines and surface ships.
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enemy alien
All persons who were not sufficiently established provincially resident subjects could be potentially treated as enemy alien equivalents.
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enemy artillery
They allowed to be built up there an enormous enemy artillery which never ought to have been allowed for one moment to exist.
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enemy camp
In the obscurity we can see that upheavals are taking place in the enemy camp.
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enemy combatant
The status of each detainee was reviewed to see if they qualified for detention as an enemy combatant.
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enemy fighter
During this action an engagement with enemy fighters took place as a result of which one enemy fighter was destroyed and other losses are believed to have been inflicted.
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enemy fire
Whenever forces are deployed, particularly in a war, accidents happen and there are injuries under enemy fire.
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enemy fleet
No possible potential enemy has an ocean-going fleet of any sort, so there is no enemy fleet to dominate.
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enemy infantry
The number of enemy infantry casualties caused by indirect fire proved impossible to determine but almost certainly exceeded the thirty infantrymen claimed.
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enemy line
He is always trying to break through the enemy line and get more movement, as we did in the last war.
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enemy plane
It is a different story in war where men are prepared to devote themselves to death rather than let the enemy plane get past.
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enemy prisoners
The evidence in my possession points to their having been acquired very largely from enemy prisoners of war and not as gifts by islanders.
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enemy radar
We must also have pilots who are trained to fly low so that they can penetrate enemy radar.
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enemy ship
In any case, are not aircraft a more efficient means of launching torpedoes at an enemy ship than destroyers?
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enemy sniper
Figure 1 presents an example situation where a convoy is moving north along the primary route, approaching the location where intelligence has reported an enemy sniper is stationed.
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enemy soldier
On his second trip with the wounded, he was clubbed from behind by an enemy soldier.
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enemy stronghold
In the end, he entered the enemy stronghold with just other two tanks and captured the position.
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enemy territory
Sometimes, they stumbled into enemy territory because they did not know where the foe was, or even exactly where they themselves were.
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enemy torpedo
What will happen if our merchant ships are to be at the mercy of one small enemy torpedo boat or cruiser?
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enemy vessel
She subsequently reported sighting an unknown and more powerful enemy vessel.
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enemy warship
While this was the first combat submarine to sink an enemy warship, the vessel failed to return to port following the attack.
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external enemy
If, however, the dimension of the real is taken into account, what is important is precisely not to focus on an 'external enemy'.
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fierce enemy
General, you're able to bring order to chaos and hold your ground against a fierce enemy, and you display unwavering loyalty.
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fleeing enemy
It includes patrolling in the jungle, and it is extremely difficult, when pursuing a fleeing enemy, especially in the dark, to know friend from foe.
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formidable enemy
In this matter we are fighting the most formidable enemy this country has ever fought.
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greatest enemy
The chapter concludes with showstoppers to this vision such as bolide impacts, climatic change, astronomical catastrophes and, of course, humanity's greatest enemy, itself.
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implacable enemy
Death was not a release f or them, but rather an implacable enemy to be resisted and overcome.
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internal enemy
The violence of the armed forces has been unleashed against the internal enemy, instead of against a common enemy across the border.
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mortal enemy
He described himself as the mortal enemy of mere words or what he also called empty names.
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natural enemy
These surveys highlight the existence of a rich natural enemy guild that is keeping the pest in check in its natural habitat.
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potential enemy
The army officer corps was considered the most powerful potential enemy to the new regime.
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powerful enemy
Lilburne was no longer of any use to those who had previously sought to protect him, and had become a powerful enemy, against whom resources had to be marshalled.
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public enemy
If the bandit had not become a public enemy, it is unlikely that the growth of federal power in the twentieth century would have enjoyed domestic political legitimacy.
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retreating enemy
It should not be assumed that a retreating enemy would destroy all the installations.
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