That men may be the more clear to act, I shall offer to your consideration some passages of Scriptures, about those who do not act against a common enemy.
We have a common enemy; so we are brothers in arms for freedom and independence.
Now we have a common enemy, and thus we have a common interest, a mutual esteem, and love rules where our fathers have fought.
We Hungarians wrestled for centuries with Turkey, and now we are friends, true friends, and natural allies against a common enemy.
We have a common enemy--therefore Hungary and Turkey are by natural ties drawn into a close alliance against that enemy.
I have given strict orders to my chiefs that they preserve strict respect to American forces and to aid them in ease they are attacked by a common enemy.
Aguinaldo said that he had directed his men to aid the American forces if the latter are attacked by a common enemy, but was discreetly silent on the subject of their entering Manila.
The operations of the Filipinos and the Americans were against Spain as a common enemy of both; but the operations were not joint operations, and although their purpose was a common purpose, it was not a mutual one.
Having them there he proposed to get assistance from them, not as allies, but as a friendly force attacking a common enemy, in its own way.
But what is decisive in this matter is, America and Holland have now a common enemy in England at open war, which is not the case with the northern powers.
Ere he died his armies were so greatly dreaded that the Egyptians and Assyrians drew their long struggle for supremacy in Syria to a close, and formed an alliance for mutual protection against their common enemy.
The northern frontier of Assyria was continually menaced by groups of independent hill States which would have been irresistible had they operated together against a common enemy, but were liable to be extinguished when attacked in detail.
They may have also found some of the northern Sumerian city states at war with one another and taken advantage of their unpreparedness to resist a common enemy.
After all, to stimulate love and friendship there is nothing like a common enemy!
There is no greater bond in early stages between the members of a group or tribe than the consciousness that they have a common enemy.
As to the next, Is there anybody who has not thought himself that the present war, in which all parties in Russia have risen unanimously against the common enemy, will render a return to the autocracy of old materially impossible?
Neither is it very clear, how far some people may stretch the term of common enemy.
Heretofore, too, they were hooped together by a common enemy.
Having no common enemy of such force as to render their union necessary, they have suffered themselves to divide.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "common enemy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
