Sentence examples for significant opponent from inspiring English sources

Small retailers say Amazon was always a significant opponent, and is now a fearsome one.

Her most significant opponent is Michael Benjamin, a Democratic district leader who has been endorsed by the Bronx Democratic Party organization.

The United States, the most significant opponent of the resolution, then argued for the P.R.C. to be admitted separately from the R.O.C., which would have allowed the R.O.C. to retain its spot.

Next Sunday will most likely see voters return Vladimir Putin once again to the Kremlin after 17 years in power; his only significant opponent, Alexei Navalny, has been sidelined — barred from running for office because of "fraud" allegations that sound straight out of a McMafia plot twist.

The most significant opponent to birth control was the Catholic Church, which mobilized opposition in many venues during the 1920s.

And if all goes according to plan, it will be for bigger stakes and against a much more significant opponent than the lightly regarded Davis, who was scratched from Saturday's card at the Home Depot Center after failing to clear a medical evaluation.

Sceptics argued that they had only faced two significant opponents in their opening eight games and had beaten neither – losing at Sampdoria and drawing at home to Milan.

If the pro-regime coalition is able to retake Aleppo City, either killing or hastening the trend of the mainstream armed opposition leaving the battlefield, so only al-Qaeda and Isis remain as significant opponents, then they will have won.

Because charters exist outside the control of public-school boards and are generally not required to adhere to union contracts with their teachers, they have attracted significant opposition, and their opponents are able to point to plenty of evidence that the charter project has failed.

For good measure, T.C.U.'s other significant nonconference opponent, Baylor, also lost this weekend.

Against his one significant heavyweight opponent, Wladimir Klitschko, he fought, after creating a mountain of trash talk, with a miserable lack of commitment before displaying an injured toe.