Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet OPPONENT

Definition av OPPONENT

1. motståndare, motspelare
2. motstående

Exempel på hur du använder OPPONENT i en mening

• Through his notorious sale of indulgences, he became the catalyst for Martin Luther's Reformation and its staunch opponent.
• He was the pupil and successor of Gorgias and taught at Athens at the same time as Isocrates, to whom he was a rival and opponent.
• John XXIII was also an opponent of Antipope Benedict XIII, who was recognized by the French clergy and monarchy as the legitimate Pontiff.
• Eusebius of Dorylaeum (5th century), bishop of Dorylaeum, opponent of Nestorianism and Monophysitism.
• The primary purposes of tackling are to dispossess an opponent of the ball, to stop the player from gaining ground towards goal or to stop them from carrying out what they intend.
• He came to prominence as an advocate for democracy and as an opponent of President and de facto dictator Porfirio Díaz.
• A full knockout is considered any legal strike or combination thereof that renders an opponent unable to continue fighting.
• This might be done, for example, when the first player believes that an opponent has an inferior hand and will not call a direct bet, but that they may attempt to bluff, allowing the first player to win more money than they would by betting straightforwardly.
• In poker, an isolation play is usually a raise designed to encourage one or more players to fold, specifically for the purpose of making the hand a one-on-one contest with a specific opponent.
• In poker, a freeroll tournament is a tournament with no entry fee, and a freeroll hand is where a player is guaranteed to at least split the pot with their opponent, with a chance they can win the whole pot if certain final cards are dealt.
• A leading opponent of Hobbes's political and philosophical views, his magnum opus was his The True Intellectual System of the Universe (1678).
• Redirect examination, in the United States, is the questioning of a witness who has already provided testimony under oath in response to direct examination as well as cross examination by the opponent.
• Thus, one team, particularly if it is decidedly better than a weaker opponent, can still "run up the score" before the rule takes effect.
• The objective of the game is to either find and capture the opponent's Flag or to capture so many enemy pieces that the opponent cannot make any further moves.
• Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles).
• Either individually or in teams of two, players take alternating turns returning a light, hollow ball over the table's net onto the opposing half of the court using small rackets until they fail to do so, which results in a point for the opponent.
• Taking place at the height of the Era of Good Feelings, the election saw incumbent Democratic-Republican President James Monroe win re-election without a major opponent.
• Kérékou's principal opponent at the presidential poll, and the ultimate victor, was Prime Minister Nicéphore Soglo.
• He is known as a zealous opponent of iconoclasm, one of several conflicts that set him at odds with both emperor and patriarch.
• A staunch opponent of civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s, Thurmond conducted the longest speaking filibuster ever by a lone senator, at 24 hours and 18 minutes in length, in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

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