Sentence examples for a fearsome opponent from inspiring English sources

But Mr Cellucci should not be a fearsome opponent.

This is a team on the rise and one that will make a fearsome opponent.

She overcame a hostile crowd, a fearsome opponent and several bizarre twists and turns to prevail in this very entertaining final.

Mr Rudd, who is regarded as clever but bland, has never fought an election as party leader before and is likely to find Mr Howard a fearsome opponent.

Championship bores like her may well be exactly what they need to keep people away - though she will find a fearsome opponent in the attractive cooking of Nathan Outlaw.

He's a free man, Lewis is, deserving of his award, his standing as a fearsome opponent, but, please, this is not about redemption and anyone who believes so is trippin'.

Kanepi, the only unseeded women's quarterfinalist, is obviously a less fearsome opponent than Williams, but she is a veteran baseliner into her fifth Grand Slam quarterfinal.

He also has the power to force his opponent into a striking battle, and with his ever improving skills, he is a fearsome adversary.

In the early films, Rocky was fighting fellow boxers, but in Creed, his battle is with a far more fearsome opponent: mortality (he is suffering from cancer).

The best piece in the show is a small, 12th-century argillite sculpture called "The Goddess Durga Killing the Buffalo Demon (Mahishasura)." It represents a 16-armed Durga slaying her most fearsome opponent with a trident after he emerges from the lopped neck of his buffalo disguise.

The Virginia replied with a broadside that shook the smaller vessel, which then closed on its fearsome opponent.