Sentence examples for hostile opponent from inspiring English sources

Yet Catholicism remained a powerful and hostile opponent for republicans through Tocqueville's own 19th century and our 20th century.

Amar'e Stoudemire and Carmelo Anthony required no ceremonial first elbow from a hostile opponent in white and green to know that this playoff spring was bound to be different from the glorified scrimmages — comparatively speaking — they have known out west.

Be cautious when engaged with a hostile opponent.

However, it is easier to clearly and cogently express yourself from a calm, polite demeanor than an angry one, especially when confronted with a hostile opponent.

If there were boundaries to movement, they arose only from hostile opponents.

Generous Enemies challenges many long-held assumptions about wartime experience during the American Revolution by demonstrating that communities conventionally depicted as hostile opponents were, in fact, in frequent contact.

"Over the course of the last year, I have had the privilege to meet with many of the men and women affected by this order, and their stories inspired us as we continued this fight against the hostile opponents of progress.

Even within particular ideological groups, schisms result in conflicts as violent as those between totally opposed creeds, and heretics are often regarded as more dangerous and hostile than opponents.

But it was clear by the volume and length of this ovation that it involved a good portion of the 41,959 fans in a stadium that is notorious for being hostile to opponents.

Nothing bothers fans more than to hear that their team, whose filled-to-capacity arena creates a raucous, hostile environment for opponents, is losing money despite their intense emotional involvement.

Pick: Falcons Jaguars (0-2) at Seahawks (2-0) 4:25 p.m. Sunday Line: Seahawks by 19 ½ What do you get when perhaps the league's best team at this point plays at home — a notoriously hostile place for opponents — against perhaps the league's worst team at this point?