Sentence examples for principal opponent from inspiring English sources

On the left, the communists viewed the Agrarian government as their principal opponent.

But his principal opponent in Indian political life now was a staunch secularist: Jawaharlal Nehru.

Since World War I the Conservative Party and its principal opponent, the Labour Party, have dominated British political life.

Such is the nature of the electorate that will select Obama's principal opponent for the 2012 election.

President Alberto K. Fujimori's principal opponent, Alejandro Toledo, insisted today on a runoff election after monitors challenged the first round.

She and Phyllis Schlafly, a principal opponent, sharply debated the issue at a national forum in 1976.

Odría and Fernando Belaúnde Terry were his principal opponents.

In Karachi, their principal opponents were the MQM.

The two men returned completely changed in their theological views and became the principal opponents of the Reformers.

Some observers attribute the different reactions of the two men to the difference in their principal opponents.

Clear distinctions are made between where you stand – and the stance of both your principal opponents and your own party's traditional positions.