His record has made him quite legitimately a public enemy throughout the region, sought for prosecution on war crimes charges by the International Criminal Court.

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The Kremlin, meanwhile, regarded him as a public enemy.

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Such tactics have been familiar in the US ever since the Chicago Crime Commission published a "public enemy" list in 1930 of Al Capone and other hoodlums.

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We now live in a world where deflation has become public enemy number one.

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Public Enemy seemed to push a lot of that stuff right up onto the surface, and at the same time it helped me think that okay, maybe I can get beyond my limitations.

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New Labour's commitment to understand what the public thought and felt came from a time, not long before, when the public were too often considered the enemy, and where it was even said that there should be "no compromise with the electorate".

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Maybe Public Enemy can actually help me be down a little bit.

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The second lesson the public learned is that when a nation goes to war against an enemy that seeks its destruction, it must fight to win.

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"Until this deal, Comcast is Public Enemy Number One, " said Myles Calvey, a Boston-area leader of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, which represents 15, 000 Verizon Communications employees.

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Paul Robinson has never bleated about unfairly being made public enemy number one for his England errors, Ryan Nelsen has always been a dependable, fine defender and injuries have robbed David Dunn of more success.

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