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Opponent in sentence

340 examples of Opponent in a sentence

If you're playing against a very good opponent, they may distribute it in that green area, which is the prior distribution, making it hard for you to return.
So I'm an opponent of euthanasia, but I do think we have to give people back some control.
There was no opponent directly across from you.
For example, this "Citizens United" ruling is a disaster, because it means there's like a money gun aimed at your head, and if you step out of line, if you try to reach across the aisle, there's a ton of money waiting to be given to your opponent to make everybody think that you are a terrible person through negative advertising.
There's the proponent and the opponent in an adversarial, dialectical argument.
This is boxing, and it figures out it can sort of pin the opponent down.
During a televised 20-day public debate, our opponent used our own arguments against us.
And there are winning levels, where whoever starts their turn there can either win or leave their opponent with a losing level.
So not only are 1, 3, and 4 winning levels, but so are 5 and 6, since you can send your opponent to 2 from there.
What about 7? From 7, all possible moves would send your opponent to a winning level, making this another losing level.
But as a shortcut, you might notice that levels 8 through 11 are colored identically to 1 through 4. Since a level’s color is determined by the levels 1, 3, and 4 stories below it, this means that level 12 will be the same color as level 5, 13 will match 6, 14 will match 7, and so on, In particular, the losing levels will always be multiple of 7, and two greater than multiples of 7. Now, from your original starting level of 25, you have to make sure your opponent starts on a losing level every single turn— if NIM starts on a winning level even once, it’s game over for you.
It's the second hour and time for him to be in court with a sturdy audience of clients to applaud his rhetoric and hiss at his opponent.
The benefits of being left-handed are clearest in activities involving an opponent, like combat or competitive sports.
So when the two face each other, the left-hander will be better prepared against this right-handed opponent, while the righty will be thrown off.
In golf, where performance doesn't depend on the opponent, only 4% of top players are left-handed, an example of the wider phenomenon of tool sharing.
Nonviolent struggle works by destroying an opponent, not physically, but by identifying the institutions that an opponent needs to survive, and then denying them those sources of power.
Wouldn't it be great if just one politician said, "Do you know, my opponent has a point.
And just as I learned to do, we routinely refuse to acknowledge the flaws in our positions or the merits in our opponent's.
The thing about civility talk, then as now, was that you could call out your opponent for going low, and then take advantage of the moral high ground to go as low or lower, because calling for civility sets up the speaker as a model of decorum while implicitly, subtly stigmatizing anyone with the temerity to disagree as uncivil.
No, being civil means speaking your mind, but to your opponent's face, not behind her back.
But your opponent yelled more loudly than you did, so he gets the point."
And it was something that has been difficult, because she's my toughest opponent.
These were human doubts, human fears, and the only thing I knew for sure was that my opponent Deep Blue had no such worries at all.
You can also choose to flip the coin or not, and your move will not be revealed to your opponent, the computer.
The problem is you need a big, sexy opponent to fight against.
His wild opponent leaps into the air, crashing down onto Gator's rib cage.
I was running against a two-term incumbent, and my opponent ran the classic partisan playbook.
Never mind that I, like my opponent, am a Republican.
I used to say that when a game is over, and you see somebody that didn't know the outcome, I hope they couldn't tell by your actions whether you outscored an opponent or the opponent outscored you.
I've always been an opponent of it.
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