Sentence examples for a determined opponent from inspiring English sources

But nothing can simulate the rigors of playing a determined opponent.

In Arsenal's mitigation, they were ending a demanding week by facing a determined opponent playing a high-energy game.

But this orthodox, controlled swordplay was of little account on a cold gray morning on greensward or gravel path when one faced a determined opponent with a sharp and heavier weapon who disregarded all conventions.

That proved to be the breaking point for Robredo as he succumbed to the sapping heat and a determined opponent, with Murray raced through the third set.

Shami Chakrabarti, director of the human rights group Liberty, is a determined opponent of the bill.

Oresme was a determined opponent of astrology, which he attacked on religious and scientific grounds.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson, an eloquent, determined opponent of slavery, was the commanding officer of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first black regiment to serve in the Union Army.

Jim, a serious, steadfastly determined opponent of the Vietnam War, would not consent to anything that would bring credit to Nixon.

It's a rare example of Israel – the bitter enemy of the Islamic republic and determined opponent of its nuclear programme – killing a senior Iranian military figure.

Matthew Cottle is also superb as her husband, a domestic little Hitler who is forever slapping his wife's wrist and who, in the play's most chilling line, asks: "Do you realise, Mrs Foster, the hours I've put into that woman?" Ayckbourn, the comic craftsman, emerges as British theatre's most determined opponent of the eternal male bully.

In both cases, a small group of determined opponents can thwart the desire for peace expressed by the great majority of voters.