warlord

Converse of object

• back: Since then the various Western powers have backed different warlords for their own particular ends.
• become: CLARIFICATIONS: Not to be confused with Gulliver Jones, another soldier who became a warlord on Mars.
• support: She briefly supported the then warlord in his quest to overthrow military leader Samuel Doe.
• compete: China became divided into territories ruled by competing warlords, but in Guangdong province the Nationalist Party came to power.
• capture: We can't go to Burma and capture warlords there.
• battle: The King Arthur we recognize today, is far removed from the battling warlord on whom he was based.

Converse of subject

• control: Currency issue had previously been controlled by the various warlords, who seemed to have little regard for the hyperinflationary consequences of their actions.
• rule: First China, nominally a republic since 1911, but in reality the distant province of Sinkiang is ruled by warlords.
• run: The gesture did not work and China became a nation run by warlords in their own region.
• overtake: Gently touching on themes of racism and ethnic cleansing, Untold Legends tells the tale of a kingdom overtaken by a monstrous warlord.

Adjective modifier

• Somali: Al Qaeda has formed an alliance with a Somali warlord.
• Afghan: D: " Afghan warlords to whom he outsourced the job.
• tribal: Macbeth lacks political skill, and turns the gracious office of king into the rule of a bloody tribal warlord.
• brutal: But that strategy has left Afghanistan at the mercy of brutal warlords and at perpetual risk of chaos.
• rival: Build and defend your stronghold, raid rival warlords, and dominate the planet.
• evil: The world is under the terrible rule of Aku and his evil robot warlords.

Modifies a noun

• stronghold: They then got the Northern Alliance to stop attacking these warlords strongholds.

Noun used with modifier

• Viking: PSM ( PlayStation Magazine ) featured a two page preview on Rune: Viking Warlord in their May, 2001 issue.
• drug: It also says the military government in Yangon refuses to hand over known drugs warlords and tolerates money laundering.

Preposition: in

• country: The hyper-inflation has been caused by a number of factors including the printing of money by some of the warlords in the country.