Sentence examples for ideal opposition from inspiring English sources

To Wolfowitz, Chalabi must have seemed an ideal opposition figure.

Paul is a bit of a dreamer". To Wolfowitz, Chalabi must have seemed an ideal opposition figure.

Even supposing the captain succeeds in getting 11 players on the field, against that ideal opposition, there still remain infinite ways in which things can go wrong.

They have become ideal opposition for those in need of a win, whether a bedraggled Chelsea last Saturday or a besieged Manuel Pellegrini.

Hardly the ideal opposition as Allardyce continues to assess his players.

France might not be ideal opposition for their final match, but Les Bleus have been as frustrating and underwhelming as ever this year, losing to Ireland and Wales.

Here Springsteen represents a kind of adolescent ideal, in opposition to a vision of adult life that requires a man to "check his valuables at the door: his dreams, his freedom, all the wildness that had defined every secret part of his life, even if... he wasn't all that wild in reality".

But the broadcaster's advantage at the time was that the country backing it stood for clear ideals those opposition members sought to copy and implement at home.

Buckner was hurt by his extremely religious ideals, including opposition to handling mail on Sunday, and failed to garner the support of some of his own party's newspapers.

"The situation is ideal for the opposition leaders," he said.

"A comment's a comment, and it's his right as chairman to say what he wants, but it's never ideal against an opposition you're about to play.