Sentence examples for tricky opposition from inspiring English sources

"At the last two 50-over tournaments we've played [Bangladesh] and they've been very tricky opposition.

They well appreciated they'd required something extra to see off tricky opposition.

Lionel Messi has proved tricky opposition for Arsenal in the past, scoring four times against them in 2010, and the following year scoring twice in Barça's 3-1 second-leg vintory in Spain.

But Collins expects the Polish champions to provide tricky opposition.

Although competing in only their fifth tournament together, and being ranked 104th in the world, the Korean pair proved to be tricky opposition for Adcock and Bankier in the final 16 in China.

Meanwhile, beneath the superficial appeal of Cameron's reaction lie some tricky issues for the opposition.

FINESSING language about "one China" and "sovereignty" will be trickier, especially for the opposition candidate Chen Shui-bian, whose supporters lean more to independence.

While it is the least expensive part of the process, it is actually the trickiest because of popular opposition to offshore wind farms in general.

How much more exhilarating was opposition than the tricky realities of governing.

The key slogan pulled off the tricky task that faces every opposition, somehow conveying both aspiration and discontent: "Britain can do better than this".

The loggers-v-greenies story thread deals the cast a more difficult hand, as it did in Sheehan's previous Tasmania-set mystery, The Hunter – perhaps because it's tricky to humanise characters whose opposition is so well known that it can stray into caricature and ideology.