Sentence examples for distinguished opponent from inspiring English sources

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet Candidates shall address each other in terms of mutual respect ("Mr. President," "Senator," etc).. Use of endearing modifiers ("my distinguished opponent," "the honorable gentleman," "Pookie," "Diddums," etc). is permitted.

Candidates shall address each other in terms of mutual respect ("Mr. President," "Senator," etc).. Use of endearing modifiers ("my distinguished opponent," "the honorable gentleman," "Pookie," "Diddums," etc). is permitted.

United pressed with ever-increasing urgency but the accuracy of a blunderbuss and Wales's standard bearers held on to their lead without real difficulty to record the double over their distinguished opponents for the first time.

It never came — "Black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots" didn't do it for me — which oddly put me at one with three former Presidents, and his distinguished electoral opponent, and many dozens of honorable public servants near him up there on the steps of the Capitol.

This is a distinguished opposition.

These taints on Mr. Hynes's long and often distinguished record provided his opponent in the Democratic primary this year, Kenneth P. Thompson, 47, with fodder for attack after attack on his ethics.

The opponents included two distinguished biostatisticians (D Berry, Houston, TX, USA, in favor of early disclosure; and R Gelber, Boston, MA, USA, against early disclosure), seconded by two trialists (respectively, J O'Shaughnessy, Dallas, TX, USA and I Tannock, Toronto, Canada).

One of Posner's opponents was Jonathan Zittrain, another distinguished cyberlaw professor, based at Harvard University.

Born to a distinguished Nicaraguan family, Chamorro early became an opponent of the regime of José Santos Zelaya.

In two articles in less than a week, Martin Wolf, the distinguished Financial Times columnist, and the leading economic opponent of Britain joining the European monetary union, has set out his prescriptions for what the government should and should not do to manage the current economic crisis.

And when asked about her challenger in the Sept. 10 Democratic primary, she referred to him as "a worthy opponent, a public servant with a distinguished record".