Sentence examples for mild opponent from inspiring English sources
By the standards of California Democrats, Feinstein, who is eighty-four and has served in the Senate since 1992, has been a mild opponent of the Trump Administration.
Still, the Kerry campaign was girding for a sea change in the nature of the campaign, moving from the relatively small field of a Democratic primary -- and a relatively mild opponent, in Mr. Edwards -- to a general election campaign against Mr. Bush, whose aides have promised a fierce campaign.
Despite a veneer of democracy, Field Marshal Thanom's government moved against even mild dissent, sweeping away opponents in Parliament.
That was milder than an opponents list and far less disturbing than an enemies list; the only political list you want to get on is a short list.
Weingarten has historically been a steadfast opponent to even mild tenure reform, sheepishly arguing that incompetent teachers are virtually non-existent -- a preposterous claim.
The leading contenders to succeed him as party leader are opponents or only mild enthusiasts of the peace settlement.
He is, in his own phrase, a modest realist, a gentle, ingenious debater, brilliant at taking over the fragments of good sense in the excesses of his opponents and finding mild, true uses for their slogans, thereby voiding their rhetoric.
Sports in which concussion is particularly common include football and boxing (a boxer aims to "knock out", i.e. give a mild traumatic brain injury to, the opponent).
Even the polemics against the bureaucrats and liberals and other opponents of progress are mild compared to what we've got used to in the intervening decades.
She glided through her one news conference of the day, declining to be drawn into any last-minute disputes with her opponent, Representative Rick A. Lazio, and offering mild observations about the approaching end of this candidacy.
