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Example sentences for "opportunistic"

Lexicographically close words:
opponents; opportune; opportunely; opportunism; opportunist; opportunists; opportunitie; opportunities; opportunity; opposable
  1. As an industry for processing the new generation, education acts according to parameters resulting from its opportunistic search for a place between academia and reality.

  2. When the literate machine of spying on the individual fell apart, people saw themselves in the merciless mirror of opportunistic self- betrayal.

  3. It is carried out by real peers, not by the geriatric or opportunistic hierarchies that have the publishing process in their firm grip.

  4. Neither opportunistic excitement nor dogmatic rejection of this far-reaching experience can replace the need to understand what makes it necessary and how to best benefit from it.

  5. It is not the market that is immoral or opportunistic in such cases, but the people who constitute their expectations for the most at the lowest cost.

  6. And how characteristic it is of the opportunistic psychology induced by mere organization work, that out of ninety-one Social Democratic papers not one found it possible to protest against the violation of Belgium.

  7. It is noteworthy that these opportunistic Austrian and German Socialists are now writhing with moral indignation over the "treacherous assassination at Sarajevo.

  8. These latter, having started in the seventies as Marxian socialists, had been made over into opportunistic unionists by their practical contact with American conditions.

  9. The movement was essentially opportunistic and displayed no particular class feeling and no revolutionary tendencies.

  10. The times were ripe for the opportunistic unionism of Gompers and the trade unionists.

  11. It signified a labor movement reduced to an opportunistic basis, accepting the existence of capitalism and having for its object the enlarging of the bargaining power of the wage earner in the sale of his labor.

  12. Nevertheless, opportunistic though they are in the industrial field, their position is not sufficiently raised above the unskilled to make them satisfied with the wage system.

  13. Like opportunistic infections, aggressive ideologies took advantage of the situation created by the decline of religious vitality.

  14. In so far as the textbook and teacher are able to overcome these disadvantages by ingenuity and care, the opportunistic method is better.

  15. The opportunistic method is strong just where the systematic is weak.

  16. For about eight hundred years thereafter the development was carried on energetically, but in an opportunistic fashion, following the requirements of the hour.

  17. It may be interesting to note that Moltke was not an "opportunistic inventor," like most men of action typified by Napoleon, but that Bismarck was.

  18. There seem to be no fixed principles of statesmanship, no literature except of an historical kind, and little activity save of an opportunistic sort.

  19. The use of the opportunistic inventions seems to have been in assisting the inventors of permanent creations and in directing the efforts of the operators of the Machine.


  20. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "opportunistic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.