"opponent" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- If an opponent employed a slow pace, Gilbert attacked decisively, often at the net.
- But the opponents were employing "third and fifth" leads, so West could be assumed to have begun with five hearts.
- "Our opponent is already employing the assistance of the Democratic leadership," said Adam Mendelsohn, an adviser to Mr. Kuykendall.
- ("James Bond's opponents have, to a man," he insists, "always employed good diction and vocabulary.")
- We failed to consider that their weapons and armored cars were far from corresponding to the standard of those which we or our opponents employed in North Africa.
- He must have seen his opponent employ the luring bet.
- His opponent in the 1972 Democratic primary, Alan Merson, employed the same strategy that Perchlik and Barnes used two years previously.
- Conversely, opponents of political correctness then employed the term "politically incorrect" to communicate that they were unafraid to ignore the social constraints inherent to politically-correct speech.
- Heseltine's opponents also employed a mixture of tactics in a campaign to defend the Prime Minister.
- "You know, he is chipping every backhand," said Adams, who didn't realize his opponent was employing the shot for strategic, not defensive, purposes.
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