Sentence examples for immediate opponent from inspiring English sources

He is 40 now, attempting a comeback for the 2012 London Games, his most immediate opponent being the one in the mirror.

They must position themselves so their immediate opponent is never out of their sphere of vision, but also ensure they are not solely focused on the ball – a sideways stance, half and half.

Barrass, whose initial representative honour had been in the unofficial Victory international against Wales at West Bromwich in 1945, collected two more caps, never regaining his place after his immediate opponent, Lawrie Reilly, had scored twice for Scotland in a 2-2 encounter at Wembley in April 1953.

Always, too, there are more battles to fight: when for a moment he has no immediate opponent on earth, he dreams of leading his army against the powers of heaven, though at other times he glories in seeing himself as "the scourge of God"; he burns the Qurʾān, for he will have no intermediary between God and himself, and there is a hint of doubt whether even God is to be granted recognition.

But in the build-up to his sold-out Manchester comeback, The Hitman spent much time emphasising the challenge posed by his immediate opponent.

During the battle, Howe defied naval convention by ordering his fleet to turn towards the French and for each of his vessels to rake and engage their immediate opponent.

Maybe Gatland's only question mark, when considering the self-motivation and drive to make England sweep all before them, is that the immediate opponents would include Wales.

The most immediate opponents of the violent jihadists are the people they live among – the Muslims, Christians, Alawites and Yazidis of Iraq and Syria.

This authority derived from a powerful midfield, where Shunsuke Nakamura, Stilian Petrov and Sutton had too much strength and guile for their immediate opponents and, on the Celtic left, Maloney was a lively, elusive nuisance.

The golfing world may be hoping for a Sunday afternoon duel between Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy but only one of the pair believes it legitimate to brand the world No1 and No2 as immediate opponents.

He was an immediate and impassioned opponent of Hitler, and he split with the Liberty League crowd to support Roosevelt's earliest efforts to aid Great Britain.