Sentence examples for a direct opponent from inspiring English sources

You feel somewhat relieved when you defeat a direct opponent like Barcelona".

It is quite some games since we won in the league and it was against a direct opponent in the table.

But the coup de grâce to the Karakitai empire was delivered by its own vassal from the east, the Mongol leader Küchlüg Khan, who from 1211 onward was to be a direct opponent of the Khwārezm-Shahs in Central Asia.

Blackpool were to meet Bolton, and this time, luck favoured them when Bell, left-half - and thus a direct opponent for Matthews - was hurt and had to limp along the left wing.

In Italy, where wingers remain as scarce as they have ever been and so the full-backs only occasionally have a direct opponent to stifle, wing-backs offer a means of introducing a measure of attacking width without taking a player out of the centre, where the familiar packed tactical battle goes on.

"We were playing against a direct opponent - we were only three points from them - and beating them hopefully secures that eighth spot," Rangel added.

And Britain will renew its nuclear weapons.Without a direct military opponent, "we are more secure today than at most times in our history," the green paper holds.

With Oman starting in a 5-3-2 facingion when fAustraliatralia's 4-3-3, there was no direct opponent for full-backs Ivan Franjic and Jason Davidson.

One of them lines up as Wade's direct opponent at Adams Park tomorrow.

By coincidence, it is Moody's direct opponent, the scavenging Cardiff Blues groundhog Sam Warburton, who shoulders the burden this afternoon.

The most important thing is concentrating on our direct opponent and not focusing on what's going on elsewhere".