Opportunist Sentence Examples

The majority of burglaries are committed by opportunist thieves.

She could hardly point a finger at him for being an opportunist.

First there is the largest group the casual, opportunist burglar or thief.

An opportunist to the last, he would readily have sacrificed any theological convictions he may have had in the interests of national uniformity.

In office he proved more of an opportunist than his career in opposition would have indicated, but his political courage and personal integrity remained beyond suspicion.

John is described by one biographer as a " jovial opportunist with absolutely no money sense " .

It may well be that T.rex was an opportunist flesh eater, combining scavenging carrion with active predation.

The opportunist wing of the old LSSP rebelled, leading to a de facto split.

Let us take the next, more mature, work by Kautsky, which was also largely devoted to a refutation of opportunist errors.

The cause lies in certain opportunist transgressions committed in their practical work by the official leaders of the Communist Party of Poland.

Guesde, nevertheless, continued to oppose the opportunist policy of Jaures, whom he denounced for supporting one bourgeois party against another.

Jules Ferry's colonial policy and of the Opportunist party, and in 1885 it was his use of the Tongking disaster which principally determined the fall of the Ferry cabinet.

This should deter both the opportunist thief who would consider the car to be too much of a risk.

In his relations to the Empire Clement was an opportunist.

So far the policy of Montgelas had been brilliantly successful; but the star of Napoleon had now reached its zenith, and already the astute opportunist had noted the signs of the coming change.

He is a fearless opportunist who has always wanted to be a god, and the deal was unofficial.

In the National Assembly he sat on the extreme Left, consistently opposing the opportunist policy of successive governments.

The peculiar situation of Sweden, and the circumstances of his time, made his policy necessarily opportunist, but it was an opportunism based on excellent common sense.

In politics Hall was a practical, sagacious "opportunist," in the best sense of that much abused word, with an eye, rather for things than for persons.

In 1885 he was elected to the chamber as an Opportunist Republican.

The able opportunist Sir Anthony St Leger, who was accused by one party of opposing the Reformation and by the other of lampooning the Sacrament, continued to rule during the early days of Edward VI.

He identified himself with the more moderate and opportunist section of the Socialist party, decisively dissociating himself from the doctrine of a sudden and violent overthrow of society, and urging his associates to co-operate in bringing about a gradual development towards the Socialistic state.

Count Billow, indeed, though, like Bismarck, a "realist," utilitarian and opportunist in his policy, made no effort to emulate the masterful independence of the great chancellor.

Next year at the Reims congress the orthodox Marxian programme of Guesde was opposed by the "possibilists," who rejected the intransigeant attitude of Guesde for the opportunist policy of Benoit Malon.

Political agitators, in order to sap the power of the Opportunist party, did not hesitate to drag in the mud one of the greatest citizens of France.