Sentence examples for competent opponents from inspiring English sources

More importantly, the way they have played, refusing to tug the forelock to extremely competent opponents, has been uplifting.

"My judgment is that at both the trial and appellate level we face very experienced and competent opponents," he said.

Surely a good sign for a road game against a highly competent opponent that will be playing to win on Thursday – the Los Angeles Galaxy?

But there have been worse performances for the sake of better spectacle: a road game against a highly competent opponent that was playing to win, and the Whitecaps sawed them off (and could have won but for Mattocks's disallowed goal, which Vancouver is still arguing about).

As Nadal arranged his bottles of water and juice down to the millimetre along his required alignment, like a chess-master preparing his brain, it looked likely before the first semi-final that his perfectly competent opponent would not have a prayer.

Sure, he's basically running up the score on a barely competent opponent, but it's appreciated when any politician condemns such stupidity.

Planners probably haven't really figured on fighting a big conventional war, with tanks against tanks and whatnot, against a peer or near-peer — read: competent — opponent for maybe 25 years.

And it forces more than a few, like me, who appreciate much of what he stands for -- good education -- civil rights -- safe streets -- to vote for his bland but competent opponent.

A previous study of U.S. Senate and House of Representative elections showed that candidates whose faces were judged "more competent" than their opponents' won the elections between 66% and 74% of the time (Science, 10 June 2005, p. 1623).

The British commander, Sir Ian Hamilton, was weak and gentlemanly, and his generals included a fair share of butchers and bunglers, whereas their German and Turkish opponents were competent soldiers and effective leaders.

This was an assured, competent and diligent display against opponents with a deserved reputation for football of a flamboyant nature.