Sentence examples for world class opposition from inspiring English sources

"Muscular and brave with huge popular support but ultimately found wanting against world class opposition".

I put a lot of pressure on, saying we'd take the game to world class opposition, but it's one thing saying it and another doing it.

Unlike the Glasgow International Match and the UK Trials, Birmingham gave British athletes the chance to compete against world class opposition and get a lift.

When you don't against world-class opposition you get punished".

It is, as Froch remarked, a question of core toughness against world-class opposition.

Mr Lee senior, still in the cabinet as "minister mentor", aged 82, is harsher, saying recently that Singapore needed "a world-class opposition, not this riffraff".

They did, however, show a lack of composure and tactical discipline in the face of world-class opposition for those first 20 minutes.

There was a win for an England A team anchored by Mark Lewis-Francis in the 4 x 100m relay, but that was an event scheduled primarily as practice for the Commonwealth Games, against nothing like world-class opposition.

Chambers will hope that the title of fastest European will be enough to secure him a place at the Paris Golden League Grand Prix next month – a rare opportunity to race against world-class opposition.

"The players deserve a massive amount of credit for the way they responded against Samoa and Tonga and in the last two weeks against world-class opposition, both times after being behind on the scoreboard," Ashton said after the victory in St.-Denis St.-Denis, France

"We did that out there and it showed we can win against world-class opposition.