Thus, to slay the inflation dragon, the Fed is keeping interest rates unnecessarily high, in a pointless war against a phantom enemy.

I also shared the opinion that we would quickly finish off the phantom enemy.

It flashed through his mind immediately that he could not commit US troops to fight some kind of a phantom enemy.

We should make contact with our phantom enemy because we don't have any choice in the matter.

"In an age when all the grand ideas have lost credibility, fear of a phantom enemy is all the politicians have left to maintain their power."

She was a phantom enemy, something truly evil, and yet something the Slayer was incapable of destroying.

With phantom enemies on the street.

Distracted and debilitated, Ford's leadership team spent years battling phantom enemies while the real foe, General Motors, gobbled up market share.

The three men jogged to the east, ever vigilant for their phantom enemies.

He wouldn't chase that line of thought or let himself get bogged down in a search for phantom enemies.