Sentence examples for a potential opponent from inspiring English sources

Ferrero may be gone, but Hewitt still looms as a potential opponent in the semifinal.

And the Islanders lost to Carolina, a potential opponent in the first round of the playoffs.

He has already scouted a potential opponent, too: Lennox Lewis, the 6-foot-5-inch, 247-pound heavyweight champion.

Vague regulations governing state security give the ministry wide latitude in pursuing anyone it deems a potential opponent of Beijing.

Comptroller Harrison J. Goldin is a longtime rival of Mr. Koch's, and a potential opponent in the 1989 mayoral race.

He won't spar with me because he considers himself a potential opponent, though he is the only one that does.

Should he stumble, he faces a powerful potential opponent in Mr Garcia, a far wilier and more experienced politician.

Hewitt will be delighted that the withdrawals of Thomas Johansson and Guillermo Canas mean Rusedski has been removed to the opposite half of the draw, having been a potential second opponent.

Mr. Miller is widely viewed as a potential Democratic opponent to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg in 2005.

And a potential postseason opponent for the Yankees got a taste of what he has to offer.

When activist groups gathered fundraising pledges for a potential reelection opponent, contingent on her vote, she suggested it was illegal.