Perhaps we could use it to bribe some local warlords to help us.

These officers have grown more alert to the ways in which local warlords may be using them.

Then, as now, the local warlords were continually feuding one against the other.

Led by the local warlord, they had followed her into the temple.

When she was just a girl the son of the local warlord raped her.

The baron's force was too powerful for any local warlord to open his town gates to them.

He had no choice but to rely on local warlords' military.

A couple of local warlords tried to raid the place, but they didn't have much luck.

"Possibly suggesting a long history of fighting among local warlords."

But they acknowledge that local warlords share some of the credit.