Sentence examples for keep opposing from inspiring English sources

The veteran's 3-point shooting was expected to keep opposing defenses honest and off-balance.

OUTLOOK -- With such a potent offense, the defense, particularly the secondary, has to keep opposing quarterbacks from shredding it.

"This influential audience has usually been reliably anti-climate and it is important to keep opposing voices out," Heartland documents warn.

Bobby Bowden's son Tommy is in his second year and will direct a hurry-up offense that will keep opposing defenses running.

In several games their offense was able to generate such a large lead that the defense needed to focus only on the deepest routes and keep opposing receivers in bounds to keep the clock moving.

The president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, Thomas J. Donahue, pledged to keep opposing the health care measure "through all available avenues — regulatory, legislative, legal and political".

But after Butts got elected mayor of Inglewood in 2011, he ran smack into a couple of City Council members who kept opposing him.

And if the US government keeps opposing it, the EU should enact it unilaterally -- every global bank does business in Europe.

As of the end of July, opposing batters were hitting.228 against Feldman (and only.217 in his starts), the fourth-lowest batting average in the league — the only three pitchers who kept opposing batters to lower batting averages were Edwin Jackson (.216), Matt Garza (.222), and Jarrod Washburn (.224).224

If the worst occurred and an isolated column was caught in the open, the troops could always form a square or hedgehog, facing outward in all directions while keeping up a steady fire from their crossbows and relying on their pikes to keep the opposing horse at a respectful distance until help arrived.

The police have repeatedly broken up the protests with tear gas and struggled to keep the opposing groups from clashing.