Sentence examples for a real opponent from inspiring English sources
But in 2002, people will be assessing the governor against a real opponent.
"It's no surprise many legislators are against Proposition 11 — they're afraid of facing a real opponent," Mr. Bloomberg said.
What matters to the Devils is that they are finally playing a real opponent in a real game.
"We're working really hard in training and it's nice to play against a real opponent and gets a few minutes".
But the fear that surfaces when facing a real opponent instead of a punching bag, or the pain and disorientation brought on by that first blow to the face, may lead some to give up the sport.
Given the fouls that will come in due course, Paul Krugman is right to remind us how the G.O.P. attack machine went into operation against Bill Clinton from the moment the Republicans saw him as a real opponent.
He shrugged at the suggestion that voters turned to Prokhorov at least in part because many educated, affluent, and urban Russians, whose resentment of Putin has reached a fever pitch, had few other choices; over the past decade, Putin has very carefully cleared the political field of any real opponents.
Dobbs's better-known House of Cards is about what happens after an election, as is Chris Mullins's A Very British Coup; whereas here Francis Urquhart, as Tory PM, campaigns in an election where his real opponent is King Charles III, who sees Urquhart's policies as divisive and lacking in compassion and aligns himself with the opposition.
Both the Labour and Tory candidates occasionally used Clegg as a battering ram against the real opponent.
But the latest opinion poll shows Mr Newhouse four points ahead of Mr Turnbull, after distribution of second-preference votes.In any case, Mr Turnbull's real opponent here could be Peter Garrett, a former singer with Midnight Oil, a rock group, and now Labor's national environmental spokesman.
Fictitious play: George Brown (1951) introduced fictitious play as "pre-play" reasoning, in which a player mentally simulates repeated trials of a game against an imaginary opponent so as to predict her real opponent's actions.
