archfoe

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Iran replaces powerful chief of Guard intelligence unit: Iran has dismissed the powerful chief of the Revolutionary Guard Corps' intelligence unit, Hossein Taeb, state TV said, after high-profile incidents blamed on archfoe Israel.

From Washington Post • Jun. 23, 2022

We know Richelieu as the archfoe of “The Three Musketeers,” but Alexandre Dumas based the character on a very real prelate whose Machiavellian talents helped hatch the concept of the nation-state.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2020

Roaring into the House of Commons in 1929, the original Angry Young Man, he became�second only to his archfoe, Winston Churchill �the most hypnotic orator and contumacious politician of 20th century Britain.

From Time Magazine Archive

As the Balkans buzzed with ominous reports that Russia was massing troops on the Yugoslav border, Stalin's archfoe, Marshal Tito, was enjoying a quiet holiday at his island stronghold of Brioni, in the upper Adriatic.

From Time Magazine Archive

So pleased were they to have the archfoe of clerical secularism in this trap, that they called it a triumph indeed, to see the day when he sat on the Treasury bench.

From Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England by Marson, Charles L. (Charles Latimer)