Sentence examples for competitive opponent from inspiring English sources

"Afghanistan is a talented team who will prove a competitive opponent for any team that comes up against it".

Ann Markel, who also coaches in Moorestown, played on a West Jersey team in the early 1970's and remembers Mrs. Thomas as a competitive opponent.

In part, that is because the voters in the 22nd Congressional district -- a sliver 90 miles long and rarely more than a couple miles wide along the Atlantic Ocean from Miami Beach to north of West Palm Beach -- vote solidly Democratic except for their support for Mr. Shaw, who has rarely had a competitive opponent.

I played under Alex as a manager for Scotland, faced him as a fiercely competitive opponent when I was captain of Liverpool and he was in charge at Old Trafford, then observed his great successes at close quarters as a pundit for the BBC.

We observed in fact that participants behaved boldly in the prudent environment (against a weak opponent) and prudently in the bold one (against a competitive opponent).

What no one can dispute is that of the eight teams that remain undefeated, Notre Dame has beaten the most competitive opponents so far.

With Chile set to provide Brazil's toughest competitive opponents since Spain last summer, it looks a dreamy combination of style and effectiveness.

In boxing, these kind of calculated delays can go on for years as fighters allow their most competitive opponents to become shop worn.

They charge more for games against more competitive opponents like the Cubs and the Phillies, and for games played in summer months.

Few further reverses can be endured by the 1978 and 1986 World Cup winners if they are to guarantee their place in South Africa next year – finishing fifth would mean having to compete in a two-legged play-off against the fourth-placed side from the Concacaf group – and so it will cause them great worry that their next competitive opponents are Brazil, the group leaders.

My degree of interest is proportional, however, to how (relatively) competitive his opponent might be on paper.