Sentence examples for opportunistically from inspiring English sources

Political elites look increasingly interchangeable: Blair, Brown, and Cameron have all tried to provide cover for the surrender of sovereignty to foreign investors with invocations of "British" values, and, more opportunistically, anti-immigrant rhetoric.

In the interim they had collaborated on Needham's best movie, Hooper (1979), with Reynolds opportunistically cast as an ageing stuntman who wants to stage a death-defying feat – partly to impress a young rival and his girlfriend (Field) and partly to confound an obnoxious producer.

Critics viewed her images of people disfigured by Kaposi's sarcoma or wasting away in hospitals as opportunistically negative at a time when groups like ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Release Power) were trying to alter public perception of the disease by exchanging an image of abjection for one of agency.

Tamil parties ally opportunistically with national ones (in March the DMK withdrew from India's ruling coalition after disagreements over policy on Sri Lanka).

It has hardly helped that the Tigers themselves have faced an internal rebellion, opportunistically backed by sections of the Sri Lankan army.

Yet Mr Becht's new and improved offer was again swiftly rejected by Ms Jung .Coty's indication of interest substantially undervalues Avon and is opportunistically timed," said Avon's board.

With one exception: by opportunistically swapping Labour's longstanding sycophancy to Rupert Murdoch for excoriation of him, Mr Miliband scored a hit over the phone-hacking scandal.

Unlike others, he can hardly be accused of opportunistically seizing upon this obscure techno-fix for political reasons.The second difference is that Mr Ovshinsky's green credentials are impeccable.

It opportunistically backed Anna Hazare, an anti-graft campaigner, when he became popular, but not his plans for a powerful anti-graft ombudsman.Smaller national parties do not look promising.

Rather than opportunistically pocketing the cash from such deals, Mr Putin would do better to stem this flow of technology, which could some day pose a direct threat to Russia too.Putin-the-pragmaticOld diplomatic habits die harder in Russia, but when it comes to NATO's further enlargement, Mr Putin may have learned something from past mistakes.

After all, it still assumes that banks and other intermediaries are just a "veil" between savers and borrowers, rather than profit-seeking firms that make loans opportunistically.