The term warlord is applied to the commanders of the Afghan resistance who fell out with each other after the defeat of the Soviets. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Another Northern Alliance warlord is running for first VP. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference
To break a warlord equilibrium, you need government. From Wordnik.com. [Unbundling the Warlord, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Arnold says "To break a warlord equilibrium, you need government.". From Wordnik.com. [Why Peaceful Anarchy Fails, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
We end up in the house of a warlord, which is the only safe place in town. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy Now!] Reference
The Somali warlord is dead and that’s now how he saw himself in the future is it?. From Wordnik.com. [FlashForward – Better Angels – D Gibbons Message to Dmitri in 1991 « Show Me SciFi] Reference
But statements like "To break a warlord equilibrium, you need government" only confuse us. From Wordnik.com. [Digging Out the Fundamental Difference, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Without a word the warlord yanked his sword from his scabbard and lopped the steward's head off. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Apropos of Nothing] Reference
Now Bryan writes, statements like "To break a warlord equilibrium, you need government" only confuse us. From Wordnik.com. [EconLog: Institutional Economics Archives] Reference
A warlord rules by rewarding his friends and punishing his enemies. and To break a warlord equilibrium, you need government. From Wordnik.com. [EconLog: December 2005 Archives] Reference
Ntombela, regarded as a "warlord" by ANC supporters. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Moreover, as Bryan admits, not all "warlord" governments are the same. From Wordnik.com. [Digging Out the Fundamental Difference, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
She was vilified as a "warlord" against wolves because she is for helicopter hunting. From Wordnik.com. [Wolves Kill 23 Lambs In Oregon] Reference
The "warlord" problem can now be safely talked about because it has just been eliminated with a stroke of the pen. From Wordnik.com. [Jane's armchair tour: Learning about Afghanistan & Kabul the easy way...] Reference
Who provided the jeeps for the "warlord" Mathieu Chui?. From Wordnik.com. [Dissident Voice] Reference
Charles Taylor, former "warlord" and president from Liberia was the second. From Wordnik.com. [Dissident Voice] Reference
Congolese "warlord" Jean-Pierre Bemba is the last of five detainees now held at the ICC. From Wordnik.com. [Dissident Voice] Reference
Where did "warlord" Thomas Lubanga get the satellite phone to coordinate his private militia?. From Wordnik.com. [Dissident Voice] Reference
Witnesses to the child's abduction by a local militia commander - a person who would once have been called a "warlord". From Wordnik.com. [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference
After its liberation the city suffered from the domination of "warlord" Ismail Khan, but sprouts of liberalism increasingly can be seen in. From Wordnik.com. [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference
Not long afterward, the warlord confiscated her house. From Wordnik.com. [Change They Can Believe In] Reference
They were dethroned by warlord shoguns of the Minamoto, Ashikaga, and Tokugawa clans. From Wordnik.com. [Like Birds In A Gilded Cage] Reference
In exchange for the freed troops, the tribal warlord got the men he wanted out of jail. From Wordnik.com. [While Pakistan Burns] Reference
F or more than 30 years he has been a revolutionary and a warlord, but not yet a statesman. From Wordnik.com. [Back To The Congo] Reference
Kandahar's warlord Sherazai has "never given us a penny," gripes a Kabul government official. From Wordnik.com. [Reining In The Warlords] Reference
Presidential candidate Mohaqeq, the ethnic Hazara warlord, appears intent on cutting a deal, too. From Wordnik.com. [STRIKING A BARGAIN] Reference
Army Rangers killed in a botched effort to arrest a warlord -- became an emblem of American vulnerability. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting in the Shadows] Reference
Afghan warlord Ismail Khan, the governor of Herat province, tries his best to sound like a loyal subordinate. From Wordnik.com. [Reining In The Warlords] Reference
That would leave Liberia with one fewer warlord, but it would hardly be enough to restore the country to sanity. From Wordnik.com. [Into Anarchy] Reference
Aidid was by now the most powerful warlord in Somalia; a political solution without his blessing was impossible. From Wordnik.com. [The Making Of A Fiasco] Reference
But he didn't mention that many of the roads are still unpassable in that country because of bandit and warlord rule. From Wordnik.com. [Our New Civil War] Reference
Howe and Boutros Boutros-Ghali, the U.N. secretary-general who loathed Aidid, now formed a common front to get the warlord. From Wordnik.com. [The Making Of A Fiasco] Reference
Officials say the raids targeted members of Hezb-i-Islami, founded by the radically anti-western warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. From Wordnik.com. [Afghan Minister Escapes Assassination Bid] Reference
Meanwhile, NEWSWEEK has learned, Aidid has dispatched one of his top lieutenants, warlord Omar Jess, to Iran to seek more arms. From Wordnik.com. [The Making Of A Fiasco] Reference
Every local warlord sees his own quest for Greater Freedonia as righteous, historically correct and worthy of the most outrageous savagery. From Wordnik.com. [Oops. Maybe We Shouldn't Have.] Reference
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