Sentence examples for resolute opponents from inspiring English sources

Why are there not more passionate, resolute opponents of the status quo in our parliament?

Described by colleagues and rivals as determined, hard-working and fiercely sectarian on some issues, Mr. Najafi takes the speaker's chair with both strong allies and resolute opponents.

It will not be a killer blow to Isis and may not even weaken it, but it will hit the Kurds who have been IS's most resolute opponents.

For them, revolutionary authenticity belonged to groups such as Hamas or Hezbollah, resolute opponents of the global colossus and tireless fighters against Zionism.

Dromey said he did not give his agreement to the proposal at the committee meeting a month earlier, and was "a resolute opponent" of the PIE when he became chairman a few weeks later.

The Economist, interviewing him in the margins of a Latin American business conference run by a monthly magazine, Poder, wonders for a moment whether this is really Colombia's president, such is Álvaro Uribe's reputation as a tough, resolute opponent of the guerrillas, paramilitaries and drug barons that are the scourge of his country.

Distracted by her ailments and outhit from the back of the court, Jankovic's miserable fall from the peak of the ­women's game continued as she allowed her more resolute opponent to go through to an unlikely place in the last 16.

"I am a resolute opponent of the break-up of the Union.

Atletico dominated possession in the first half but struggled to break their resolute Catalan opponents down.

March 21 , 1809Lyon, France January 19 , 1880Versailles, France Jules Favre, in full Gabriel-Claude-Jules Favre (born March 21 , 1809 Lyon, France died January 19 , 1880 Versailles), a resolute French opponent of Napoleon III and a negotiator of the Treaty of Frankfurt ending the Franco-German War.

Jürgen Klopp did his best to keep his players focused on the matter in hand, describing this game as the most important one of the season and appealing to the crowd for fervent support, though a rugged and resolute Stoke were the last opponents Liverpool needed to meet between the two legs of their Champions League semi-final.