Sentence examples for foreign opponents from inspiring English sources

It is sad that such signs of life from foreign opponents take us by surprise.

The directors of the Soviet chess program accumulated vast archives of opening moves, as well as records of the play of foreign opponents.

Saudi Arabia and Turkey are among Assad's foreign opponents who have been supplying selected rebel groups with weapons via a Turkey-based operations centre.

In Manchester City, Dortmund faces an opponent with an unquestionably stronger squad, but a level of experience and understanding of foreign opponents not unlike their own.

Boorish behavior -- death stares, trash-alk that many foreign opponents could not understand, and occasional forearms to the neck -- almost obscured the players' superior athleticism.

"We want Jones to fight against foreign opponents at first, to let fans get behind him," meaning against non-Russians, said McGee Wright, a longtime trainer for Jones, after a news conference this month.

They were there when dissension, cockiness and perhaps a lack of fundamentals caused a team of N.B.A. stars to lose for the first time to a foreign opponent.

So while their comeback will go into the books as a meaningless 4-3 victory against a foreign opponent, the Rangers said it was something more.

Two days later, when Serena meets Kim Clijsters in the final, the crowd unleashes its frustration on Serena and her family by booing the teenager as she walks on to the court, cheering her every unforced error – a crowd etiquette no-no outside of team competitions such as Davis Cup, Federation Cup or World Team Tennis – and emphatically backing the foreign opponent over the home finalist.

Its director added that there was "strong reason to believe" that Mr. Subrahmanyam was acting "on account of certain external pressures," a clear reference to foreign adoption opponents.

In a news conference in Cairo before the Arab League meeting, Prince Saud al-Faisal, the Saudi foreign minister, accused opponents of Western military action of abetting the mass killing of Syrians by Mr. Assad's government.