Sentence examples for effective opponent from inspiring English sources

But the army is proving to be an effective opponent.

He later said he expects to spend much of his first year "being a very effective opponent".

Ali Mohammed Mujawer, the newly appointed prime minister of Yemen, won a reputation as an effective opponent of corruption in his previous post as electricity minister.

Valiani decided to become a communist while serving a period of internal exile on the island of Ponza, convinced that the party was the most effective opponent of the Mussolini dictatorship.

Second, Hamas (a) recognizes that it is Obama who is truly its "worst nightmare," because Obama's election would transform America's image and America's policies in ways that would make America a much more effective opponent of Islamist extremism and terrorism, and (b) understands that the best way it can do its part to keep Obama out of the White House is to pretend to favor his candidacy.

Frustration was no more of an effective opponent to the home side than Hamilton, though.

Other effective opponents of Isis in Syria include the PYD, the Syrian Kurdish movement which the US and Europe still regard as "terrorist".

In addition, there is an argument to be made that a weak, divided opposition is worse than no opposition at all, because it prevents other, more effective opponents of the regime from emerging.

Although Mr. Eslami and Mr. Laak are not the best human players in the world, the scientists argued that their knowledge of computing made them more effective opponents than other top-ranked poker players.

The leader of the lawyers' movement, Aitzaz Ahsan, was allowed his first visit on Wednesday at the Adiali jail in Rawalpindi, where he has been held since Saturday night, as part of the government's battle to neutralize its most effective opponents.

Its militarily most effective opponents are the Syrian Kurds and their People's Protection Units (YPG) which Amina Ossi, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for the biggest Kurdish enclave, says "number about 50,000 fighters, in addition to 3,000 killed in the fighting".