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If you've got one bowler - particularly a fast bowler - who is really aggressive, all over the opposition, he brings the rest of the team along with him.
Glenn McGrath
You
Rest
Aggressive
He
Over
Along
Particularly
Bowler
Him
Got
Opposition
Really
Team
Who
Fast
Brings
I used to come out and say I was targeting certain players in the opposition team, particularly players I had had success against in the past: Gary Kirsten, Brian Lara and Michael Atherton, for example. It is a mental part of the game.
Glenn McGrath
Success
Game
Example
Past
Say
Out
Mental
Had
Part
Come
For Example
Particularly
Opposition
Targeting
Michael
In The Past
Against
Certain
Used
Brian
Team
Gary
Players
Historically, opposition to immigration in the United States has been racially and religiously motivated in the ugliest, nastiest way possible.
Grover Norquist
Immigration
Way
States
Possible
Has-Been
Ugliest
Motivated
Been
Opposition
Historically
United
United States
The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.
Gustav Stresemann
Government
Beauty
Past
Active
Entranced
Taken
New
Concept
Opposition
Times
Form
Place
Cooperation
Resignation
Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
Heraclitus
Concord
Harmony
Out
Fairest
Discord
Opposition
Brings
A player is said to have the opposition when he can place his King directly in front of the adverse King, with only one square between them. This is often an important advantage in ending games.
Howard Staunton
Ending
King
Important
Only
Directly
He
Advantage
Between
Adverse
Said
His
Opposition
Square
Front
Often
Place
Them
Games
Player
We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority.
Hussein of Jordan
Prevail
Respect
Believe
Respected
Majority
Policy
Opinion
Opposition
Any
Should
Position
Thanks to technology, you can sit and see the opposition's mistakes and try to learn from them.
Imran Tahir
You
Technology
Try
Mistakes
Sit
Thanks
See
Learn
Opposition
Them
Studying my grandfather's life and legacy has shown me what it takes to be a good public servant. Curiosity. Compassion for others. Humility. Determination to stand tall for your beliefs in the face of opposition. No one believed these things more than my grandfather.
Jack Schlossberg
Life
Good
Me
Determination
Compassion
Face
Humility
Others
More
No-One
Takes
Studying
Tall
Opposition
Legacy
Than
Curiosity
Public
Grandfather
Stand
Your
Shown
Beliefs
Believed
Servant
Things
When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between 'the accuser' and 'the accused,' there is no longer a victim or even an alleged victim - a flesh and blood person who was harmed by the violent act of another.
Jackson Katz
Binary
Victim
Sets
Alleged
Between
Longer
Another
Coverage
Opposition
Blood
Up
Person
Accused
Accuser
Act
Flesh
Who
Even
Media
Media Coverage
Violent
Harmed
Indeed, the economy and the environment need not be seen in opposition.
Jacob Rothschild
Seen
Indeed
Environment
Economy
Opposition
Need
My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.
James Thurber
Grace
Language
Value
Interviews
Lies
Give
Give And Take
Fact
Take
Answers
Opposition
Perpetuate
Oral
Little
Decline
English
English Language
Helps
Expression
Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.
Jane Austen
Will
Vain
Husbands
Generally
Understand
Wives
Opposition
I always say that the largest party in every country - the largest opposition group in every country - is the youth party.
Jared Cohen
Youth
Country
Party
Group
Every
Say
Always
Opposition
Largest
In Wisconsin, I led the Assembly to a balanced budget in face of fierce opposition from the status quo.
Jeff Fitzgerald
Face
Status
Status Quo
Wisconsin
Budget
Balanced
Balanced Budget
Opposition
Led
Quo
Fierce
Assembly
So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game.
Jeremy Irons
You
Game
Better
Partner
Think
About
Like
However
Opposition
You need to hunt something that can shoot back at you to really classify yourself as a hunter. You need to understand the feeling of what it's like to go into the field and know your opposition can take you out.
Jesse Ventura
You
Yourself
Feeling
Field
Back
Hunt
Out
Hunter
Something
Classify
Take
Like
Know
Understand
Go
Opposition
Shoot
Really
Your
Need
For eight years Republicans worked around the clock to delegitimize Bill Clinton. For the next eight years, Democrats tried to delegitimize Bush. Now Barack Obama is enduring the rage of his conservative opposition.
Joe Scarborough
Conservative
Rage
Obama
Tried
Around
Democrats
His
Opposition
Years
Clinton
Clock
Eight
Enduring
Barack
Barack Obama
Republicans
Bush
Worked
Next
Bill
Bill Clinton
Now
In this work I have received the opposition of a number of men who only advocate the unobtainable because the immediately possible is beyond their moral courage, administrative ability, and their political prescience.
John Burns
Work
Courage
Political
Men
Immediately
Possible
Moral
Administrative
Moral Courage
Ability
Only
Beyond
Because
Advocate
Opposition
Who
Received
Number
I have given up the idea that there is an opposition-free church out there. But I have gained something else - an appreciation for the gift of opposition. When it comes, I learn something about my motives. When it comes, I get to test my courage.
John Ortberg
Appreciation
Courage
Gift
Church
Else
Out
About
Something
Something Else
Given
Idea
Learn
Test
Opposition
Motives
Up
Get
Gained
The classic rule of thumb is that if you are an intellectual ideological magazine, you do better in opposition than you do if your views are reflected by people in power.
John Podhoretz
You
People
Better
Power
Rule
Magazine
Classic
Thumb
Ideological
Opposition
Intellectual
Reflected
Than
Your
Views
You don't want to get so distracted, focusing on what the opposition is putting forth that you forget to remind America that the real issue is 8.3 percent unemployment, virtually no growth at all in an economy that has been in shambles for the last four years under Obama.
John Sununu
You
Virtually
Focusing
Has-Been
Distracted
Obama
Percent
Remind
Putting
Economy
Real
Issue
Been
Opposition
Years
Real Issue
Unemployment
America
Forget
Get
Want
Forth
Growth
Four
Last
I heard someone in opposition to reform last night criticize the president for saying it's their money. They said it's not their money; it's my mother's money. Well that's what's wrong with the system.
Johnny Isakson
Saying
Money
Mother
President
System
Criticize
Someone
Wrong
Well
Said
Opposition
Heard
Reform
Last
Night
Last Night
Test cricket is about respecting the opposition, the conditions and the circumstances.
Jonathan Agnew
Cricket
Respecting
Circumstances
About
Test
Opposition
Conditions
It is to be deeply regretted that the clergymen would oppose an effort to teach the people the Bible truths; nevertheless, we find much opposition everywhere, and many clergymen will attempt to prevent the people from reading what is here written.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Bible
People
Will
Reading
Oppose
Everywhere
Would
Find
Prevent
Attempt
Written
Nevertheless
Clergymen
Opposition
Effort
Truths
Much
Regretted
Teach
Many
Deeply
Here
I consider myself as this kind of attacking midfielder, trying to find the gaps between the opposition midfielders and defenders and produce what the team needs between the lines.
Juan Mata
Myself
Needs
Consider
Kind
Find
Attacking
Between
Opposition
Lines
Trying
Produce
Team
Gaps
Defenders
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