He surprised his opponent.

Tom underestimated his opponent.

What was your opponent's name?

What was your opponent's name?

Lincoln welcomed his old political opponent.

He received a tremendous punch on the jaw from his opponent.

He doesn't stand a chance against his opponent.

Robert McNamara emphasized the necessity of putting yourself in your opponent s position.

On the stimulus, though, Krugman achieves a knock out punch.

The roughhouse technique seems to involve Trump using his considerable girth to pull his opponent into his body.

He sarcastically told reporters that he sensed the the hand of God guiding his silicon opponent.

At such a level, overconfidence is generally the product of an excessive assessment of one s capabilities and an insufficient appreciation of the capabilities of one s adversary.

I wanted to do that with a fight that was faster and more dynamic and we were able to pull that off.

But, while such an approach may have won Burma s Aung San Suu Kyi the Nobel that eluded the Mahatma himself, the violence of the Burmese state proved far stronger in preventing change than her suffering has in fomenting it.

Making matters worse, concessions on either side appear to leave no impression on the other.

Gandhi believed in weaning an opponent from error by patience, sympathy, and self suffering.

The athlete from the Don capital handily defeated his opponent with a score of 3 1, winning the tournament bronze.

By threatening this source of power, the microfinance industry created a powerful opponent, who found an opportune moment to strike.

Cornering an opponent without keeping open diplomatic channels that allow you to understand his situation may prove fatal

I defected to a new opposition party and campaigned on behalf of Museveni's opponent in last year's presidential election. Even though Museveni faced no risk of losing, he took no chances, arresting his opponent's aids and supporters.

Though I had fought faithfully in Museveni's army as a child, I was now an adult and a critic, so he arrested me too.

Germany had changed course 180 degrees from the main driver of integration was to the main opponent of a transfer union.

So why isn t Obama speaking up about an issue on which he has so much more first hand experience than his opponent, and better policies, too?

The common saying in Tahrir is We ve got differences with Morsi, but we ve got blood with Ahmed Shafiq, Mubarak s last prime minister and Morsi s opponent in the runoff.

Though there was no serious challenger to his authority, Nehru never forgot that he derived his power from India s people, to whom he remained astonishingly accessible.

A carrot is more effective than a stick if you wish to lead a mule to water, but a gun may be more useful if your aim is to deprive an opponent of his mule.

And, given such blatant disregard for the international order, it is no surprise that Putin's agents have been implicated in the murder of at least one opponent on the streets of London.

The poster hanging in front of the French diplomatic mission building in Saint Petersburg, raises a conspiracy theory question, wherever the DSK scandal was a deliberate removal of a political opponent in the upcoming election in France.

If the vicious tone of his opponent s campaign offers any indication, Funes cannot count on the good will of those who have yet to learn how to behave like a loyal opposition.