He could not afford to make an outright enemy of Henry.

From what I've heard, they're adversaries, if not outright enemies.

Occasionally, she had been forced to manufacture such positions, to avoid making an outright enemy by demoting him.

For a century and a half Mexico has - often with good reason - seen its powerful neighbor as an exploiter, if not an outright enemy.

"Alarmist and badly educated people", he wrote, "do not understand that it is possible to be an outright enemy of the entire contemporary order without being a liberal".

Potter had both critics - on whose observations he could, in time, constructively reflect - and outright enemies.

He might even be a professional rival of Athor's, an outright enemy of his-every scientist has enemies, you've told me so plenty of times.

In fact, they were just one step removed from being outright enemies, albeit an ever-so-civil step.

For the last two years, the Espada family has gone from being a political ally to an outright enemy of the Bronx Democratic Party organization.

Tony Fabrizio, a Republican pollster, said bluntly: "There are groups on our side of the aisle that view this guy as the outright enemy.