Sentence examples for serious adversary from inspiring English sources

Does Bolt regret stamping such a fierce alias on his most serious adversary?

But at Brockton, the union never became a serious adversary, in part because most committee members were unionized teachers, and the committee scrupulously honored the union contract.

He said it viewed itself as "the new leader in the global jihadist movement" although US intelligence officials maintain Al Qaeda currently is a more serious adversary.

The sole Republican in the race, Jim Nussle, is an eight-term congressman and chairman of the House Budget Committee who has co-opted his only serious adversary, a hard-core conservative, by picking him as his running mate.

Their targets are remnants of the Free Syrian Army (or F.S.A). the ragtag force that was haltingly supported by the Obama Administration from 2011 to 2015, and which the U.S. all but abandoned when the Islamic State and its affiliated insurgents proved to be the common, and more serious, adversary of Assad and U.S.-backed Iraq.

Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of reasons to view Tehran as a serious adversary.

The secretiveness stems from the belief that a populist intelligence operation with virtually no resources, designed to publicize information that powerful institutions do not want public, will have serious adversaries.

On balance, US Government reaction to Benghazi was probably not (or not only) an effect of the ideological bent of particular policy-makers – it was also an artefact of the new environment where larger numbers of spontaneous, self-radicalised attackers raised the background clutter, letting more serious adversaries (AQIM and AS Libya) fly under the radar.

The lobby was a necessary but not sufficient condition for a war that is a strategic disaster for the United States and a boon for Iran, Israel's most serious regional adversary".

President Putin: I arranged for my only serious political adversary, Aleksei Navalny, to be convicted on trumped-up charges of embezzlement so he would be banned from running against me.

Over the past decade, when we had no serious national adversaries, U.S. defense spending has gone from about a third of total worldwide defense spending to 50 percent.