Sentence examples for potent opponents from inspiring English sources

Yet, the Guardian ICM polls show again that many SNP and ex-Labour voters think the SNP will be far more effective champions for Scotland than Labour, and far more potent opponents of the austerity agenda.

O'Neill is not one to read too much into statistics though Villarreal, even if they loiter in 10th place in La Liga with a makeshift line-up beaten 2-0 at home by Deportivo La Coruña at the weekend, remain potent opponents of pace and invention.

But many G.O.P. leaders supported Representative John E. Sununu in a Republican primary because they viewed the 38-year-old as a more potent opponent to the moderate governor.

Might Republicans be mired in a different and deeper rut, dragged down by an unusual confluence of problems as the party faces an exceptionally potent opponent in Barack Obama?

Tymoshenko's defence claimed the case amounted to political persecution by Ukraine's president, Viktor Yanukovich, and his ruling Party of Regions, motivated by a desire to exclude its most potent opponent from the political landscape.

Mr. Sharif, potentially General Musharraf's most potent opponent, flew from Jidda to Riyadh on Thursday to see the Saudi royal family in what appeared to be the final preparations for his homecoming.

Indeed, by leaving so many of the cuts up in the air, Mr. Cuomo, intentionally or not, has kept some of his most potent likely opponents on the sidelines.

In New York City, Bloomberg has increased the pay of public-sector workers far above the rate of inflation, a move that defanged his most potent political opponents.

It is hard not to conclude that Republicans, as the party is now constituted, are more potent an opponent to American providence than were the last century's rival superpowers.

The Internet has since become a potent weapon for opponents of his regime.

The most potent change among opponents of the regime is that the Islamists and the secularists now seem more willing to build a joint front.