Sentence examples for a potential adversary from inspiring English sources

Better to disarm a potential adversary than to admit to a human emotion.

And no military strategist wants to cede an advantage to a potential adversary.

The report stated that China is also a potential adversary and is modernizing its nuclear and conventional forces.

As much as I tried, I think he saw me as a potential adversary and he had that hang-up, which a lot of governors have.

The U.S. has long viewed China as a strategic military threat, and as a potential adversary in the sixty-year dispute over Taiwan.

It's a state of mind that you create in a potential adversary, and it rests on a couple of foundational criteria.

Today the United States enjoys overwhelming military superiority over any potential adversary.

The devastation in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan and the ensuing operation highlighted shortcomings in AFP mobility and logistics needed to respond within Philippine territory, much less in contested maritime space further afield challenged by a more robust potential adversary (Batongbacal 2014).

Another incentive for an early election is to ensure that the BN's greatest potential adversary, Anwar Ibrahim, a former deputy prime minister, cannot take part.

After all, America and its allies outspend current and potential adversary states by a factor of four-to-one.

But they, along with those in the administration who hold dark views of China as a potential military adversary, would become vocal should relations with China begin to unravel.