Sentence examples for successful opponent from inspiring English sources

His successful opponent, Muhammadu Buhari, has been president before.

His successful opponent was Radek Sikorski, now foreign minister, who had fled Poland as a political refugee from the martial law that Mr Rakowski so steadfastly defended.

Convinced that there is no genuine appetite for change among the elite at the heart of the system, he has turned to backing medium-sized firms.The views of Andrea Bonomi, boss of Investindustrial, another investment firm, and Mr Arpe's successful opponent in the fight over Banca Popolare di Milano in 2011, are eerily similar.

Milk's most successful opponent was the quiet and thoughtful lawyer Rick Stokes, who was backed by the Alice B. Toklas Memorial Democratic Club.

If the plaintiff said the word craven ("I am vanquished"), and gave up the fight, he was to be declared infamous, deprived of the privileges of a freeman, and was liable for damages to his successful opponent.

When the convention adopted the Constitution, he led the fight for ratification by being a prime author of the Federalist Papers and then a successful opponent of the far more impassioned anti-federalist orator, Patrick Henry, in the Virginia ratification convention.

Their successful opponents won spending less per vote.

Their successful opponents, calling themselves Sinn Féin and supporting the republican program announced in 1916, were led by Eamon de Valera, a surviving leader of the Easter Rising, who campaigned for Irish independence in the United States as "president of the Irish Republic".

Virginia Tech's defense likewise was more successful against opponents' rushing offense than their passing attack.

When we were successful against our opponent's goal, I knew we would win".

If Liverpool are able to reduce their opponents' successful pass percentage, for instance, it may indicate the effectiveness of their pressing game.