Sentence examples for make an opponent from inspiring English sources

Describing Chapman's actions as a "jab step" intended to make an opponent flinch, he demonstrated to jurors what he meant by momentarily jerking his upper body forward.

Salzman, 30, still has the quick feet and strong legs required to spin and stop the floating logs in a high-speed attempt to make an opponent fall.

A Walmart security worker, a young black man named Gregory Provo, said Chapman took a "jab step" – an upper-body jerk meant to make an opponent flinch.

And, some election officials and political professionals say, there is always the real possibility that some of the fraud and disenfranchisement exists only in the imagination of those who want to make an opponent or another party look bad.

Asked if Biden would come at Ryan like a cannonball, as Ryan suggested, Axelrod quoted Truman saying that just telling it like it is would be enough to make an opponent feel as if they are in hell.

"We hope that whatever the result, the power of human ingenuity will be the winner" isn't the sort of fighting talk that will make an opponent quake in their boots.

Fighting Pacquiao makes an opponent instantly rich.

Ferrer is the ultimate tough out — "a backboard with legs" was a nickname in the juniors — and he makes an opponent work for every point.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Two days after two Giants players made an opponent with a history of concussions a target, the team did its best to back away from the notion and the N.F.L. said it would not impose discipline.

His consultancy helped elect two mayors in rough-and-tumble Chicago, and he can deliver a punch: he was once accused of producing an ad that made an opponent resemble Hitler.

That was a textbook example of using a side suit to maintain trump control by making an opponent ruff and reduce his trump length to the same as declarer's.