Sentence examples for avid opponents from inspiring English sources

In a political environment already kind of dizzy over the incessant state of emergency and history-making decisions, it's not so surprising that any plan that involves any government direction at all can be portrayed by its most avid opponents as an overreach or, in cruder terms, socialism.

But even the most avid opponent of Michael Gove's education reforms must have realised that couldn't possibly be true.

An avid racing fan – her first rescue was Top Bunk, an 11-year-old gelding who was still running – Hirt is an equally avid opponent of slaughter.

Rick Santorum, a devout Catholic and possibly the most avid opponent of abortion among the many Republican candidates, often invokes the moral power of the Pope's position on the issue.

An avid opponent of capital punishment, he vetoed a dozen bills that would have reinstated the death penalty in New York.

Finally, Australia, a whaling country until 1978 and now an avid opponent, called Japan's bluff over the hundreds of whales it killed each year in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary surrounding Antarctica.

Marostica, an avid motorcyclist, was among the prominent opponents of a bill that would have required minors to wear motorcycle helmets while riding, even wearing his own motorcycle helmet to a committee hearing at which the bill was debated.

In a statement announcing a seven-figure ad campaign in support of Donnelly's opponent, Mike Braun (who describes himself as "an avid hunter, NRA member, and 100% pro-2nd Amendment), the NRA accused Donnelly of being dishonest to his constituents.

Since then Thaksin's opponents widely known as the Yellow Shirts and his avid supporters, the Red Shirts, have taken turns instigating mass protests to topple their opponents.

His Democratic opponent, Dennis Robertson, is a City Council member who promises change but is too avid a practitioner of the combative, heat-but-no-light style of politics that Yonkers should outgrow.

As an avid golfer one knows or should know, you play to the level of your opponent, so on this day your game will suffer.