Enemy in a sentence as a noun

Why go to this effort if others will silence you?Noise is not the enemy of quality.

If your enemy has battleships and all you have are frigates, then maybe you shouldn't be fighting them at sea.

It was at this time I realized in our efforts to meet this risk posed to us by the enemy, we have forgotten our humanity.

In the wars of the past you had to assume that many of your own guys would be captured by the enemy.. and that you might end up being one of them.

That is, you can use a bioweapon to prevent your enemy from gaining or holding a strategic position.

Suppose instead your friend's devious enemy obtained the diary.

I figure **** it, while I'm at it why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard?

To label it as a police state is not quite apt, but to label it as some sort of monster that is an enemy to the advancement of human civilization would be supremely justified.

It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

It was only decades after Jutland that naval aircraft and aircraft carriers became fast and advanced enough to make the aerial bombing and torpedoing of enemy vessels a real possibility.

Terrorist is todays communist, or yesteryears fascist, eugenicist, ***, negro, etc. Blanket arbitrary term to apply to dissenters you want to control and treat inhumanely, and society doesn't judge you for it because they are the "enemy" or "other".

The definition of an enemy for the state always includes some of its citizens, so you end up with scope creep where formerly completely illegal and unthinkable acts are considered normal, just because the word terrorism has been used in conjunction with a person or organisation.

Enemy definitions

noun

an opposing military force; "the enemy attacked at dawn"

noun

an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force); "a soldier must be prepared to kill his enemies"

See also: foeman opposition

noun

any hostile group of people; "he viewed lawyers as the real enemy"

noun

a personal enemy; "they had been political foes for years"