Opponents

The opponents may be of two kinds: there are the _indirect opponents_, which are what we may call _rivals_; and there are the _direct opponents_, those which strive to destroy the creature; and these we call _enemies_. ❋ Thomas Henry Huxley (1860)

The bill retains incentives for drug manufacturer innovation and would not impose price controls—a term opponents use whenever they don't want Medicare to use the same purchasing power that large private companies use every day. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He cited the defeat of a major health care bill, sponsored by Hassan, "which would have dramatically changed how health care is delivered," and, "the infamous 'bathroom' bill," a name opponents gave legislation that would have provided housing and employment rights to transgender citizens. ❋ Unknown (2011)

No, * torturing* your opponents is a sign of weakness, not demonizing them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Whining and blaming problems on your opponents is a losing strategy that is frankly Un-American. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Resorting to the tactics of our opponents is the political equivalent of inflicting torture on prisoners of war, and we're the ones who say we're above that. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Anyway, I thought it might be worthwhile to take a look at our five remaining league fixtures, as well as our title opponents 'remaining fixtures, and see how it all plays out. ❋ Martin (2010)

Subsequently, they started to assassinate what they called their opponents and the first victim was a distinguished personality from their own minority Tamil, ❋ Unknown (2010)

Chavez has said in speeches in which he calls opponents "thieves" and "capos" that his ❋ Unknown (2008)

Firing a member of the supposedly independent judiciary because he or she will not prosecute one's political opponents is a CRIME. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I'd * love* to point to one particularly scathing review of Vellum in light of this, if writerly dignity didn't bid me to bite my tongue and not argue with reviews, but I will say that part of my reason for talking of populism and elitism as compatible approaches and Populism and Elitism as the real ideological opponents is that Vellum has been damned for both. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

One way to neutralize your opponents is to have them work for you. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Smearing your political opponents is more reminiscent of Nazi Germany than anything about this law. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The objective in launching these sorts of parleys with your opponents is two-fold. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In areas where Labour was less than 5% behind its main opponents at the last local elections, it won 65% of the seats. ❋ Andrew Sparrow (2010)

This was a team that played together and learned to contain opponents with a lengthy 2-3 zone defense. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Spearheaded by two first-team All Ivy League players, the Big Green can beat opponents from the paint or the perimeter. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A pre-emptive bid of four hearts by the opponents is often referred to as a "transfer to four spades", because, given any reasonable excuse, players tend to bid four spades over four hearts. ❋ Zia Mahmood (2010)

My experience, after years of exchanges with ID opponents, is that ID critics are the ones with their fingers in their ears and their minds closed to possibilites. ❋ Unknown (2009)