But for every fevered fan, there's an implacable foe.

Although he was an implacable foe in battle, he was never known to treat a prisoner with cruelty.

He was considered by some to be an implacable foe to conscientious objectors.

The longer voyage lowered its quality and it was far more susceptible to the dry rot that was one of the navy's more implacable foes.

In wrongly deploying against a political foe his entirely private activities, the high-minded have argued themselves into the gutter.

Her political foes observed her with a mixture of public abhorrence and private awe.

Despite the appearance of amity, they have been sharply reminded they are short-term colleagues but long-term political foes.

He was also capable of wielding a rapier wit, often at political foes, that left some laughing 'until their tummies hurt'.

We are cheered by parties acting in the national interest and heartened by former political foes seeking common ground, rounding off the sharper edges of dogma.