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She hit the ball so hard that her opponent had no chance to establish any rhythm in her game.
Turner's opponent in the quarter-finals of the darts is the No. 1 seed.
Targeting the opponent's weak spots is a typical technique in politics.
His bad behaviour provided plenty of ammunition for his opponents.
To make such decisions would require agents to be fully informed about their opponents, the environment, and the issues at stake.
The government had no opponents, whether within their own party or on the opposite benches, who could block the march of legislation.
In their search for the source of disagreement, the opponents move in the direction of foundations.
The (perhaps rather obvious) point to make about all the divisions of the 1620s is that both sides were seeking to silence their opponents.
In the case of criminal justice, several stinging defeats for opponents of civil rights galvanized a powerful elite countermovement.
How does one assess a case where the emperor acts by seeking to restrain the military or pacify domestic opponents?
Looking back at these arguments forty years later, the opponents to the militarisation project were absolutely correct.
Advocates attacked opponents where it hurt most, questioning and challenging their key argument and standing it on its head.
Generally, the opponents were to be found in the larger urban areas, but by no means all urban politicos were opponents.
According to context the term superstition might designate controversial beliefs, the practice of confessional opponents or the beliefs of the ignorant masses.
His diplomatic approach throws the problems back to the opponents' side.
A productive next step also might identify other critical behaviours that are influenced by people's status as supporters or opponents of those in power.
Rationalist explanations of civil conflict have emphasized the co-ordination problems faced by would-be opponents of stable governance.
Both sought to expose the reality, as they saw it, of their opponent's politics.
The role of honest broker in negotiations between loquacious opponents, however, was not to the ambassador's liking.
