Sentence examples for opportunistic from inspiring English sources

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opportunistic

adjective

Taking advantage of situations that arise

  • The danger now isn't so much from the AIDS virus itself as from opportunistic infections.

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That stance is dismissed by Downing Street as undiplomatic and opportunistic but Cameron's contempt for Labour's position is clouded by personal animus.

The company even became embroiled in a lengthy Twitter debate with the opportunistic campaigners at Peta.

My choice of career was entirely opportunistic: at 20-years-old I found myself working for a courier firm and quickly realised I could do a better job of running it than the people in charge.

William Hague accused Mr Miliband of making "opportunistic" partisan points on a matter of national interest.

2012 was a year in which Labour mastered the arts of opposition, including cynical and opportunistic opposition, as when it helped Conservative rebels to sabotage reform of the Lords and combined with Tory Euro-haters to defeat the government over the European budget.

In New York, the entire winter has been filled with weather advisories, along with freezing rain, decreased blood circulation, sleet, swipes right, unused gym memberships, compromised public transportation infrastructure, depression, lassitude, lonely gloves, too much binge-watching, opportunistic slush of a certain sentience and the first 2,000 words of novels in various states of abandonment.

This suggests that the attack, far from being random or opportunistic, had been carefully targeted and perhaps based on inside information regarding the general's whereabouts.

One local fisherman recommends that Italian coastguards ensure that intercepted migrant ships are properly destroyed once their passengers are rescued: in Libyan docks this week, visitors can easily find "recycled" boats that have been salvaged by opportunistic smugglers.

We have to find a new, more egalitarian, order for the benefit of people and planet, and stop trying to pretend we can somehow run capitalism better than Thatcher, Cameron and their opportunistic social democrat allies.

"This has been an ill-targeted, politically motivated and opportunistic attempt to misuse the British legal system.

It was an opportunistic strike, indeed with Michael Bradley absent on his World Cup duty, there's an argument that that's what it was always likely to be were Defoe to get on the scoresheet.

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