The Government's war against doctors may also have played into the hands of its opponents in the drug-policy reform movement.

Mr. Yeltsin is expected to run for re-election in June, and the strike is likely to play into the hands of his strongest opponents, the Communists.

Since then the party suffered many setbacks at the hands of its conservative opponents, including the exclusion of its candidates from the current election.

It's about raising costs and trying to destabilize the regime and, by doing so, strengthening the hand of its opponents.

After just two minutes Taz was eliminated by a combined assault at the hands of his opponents.

Must one suffer - extremely - at the hands of one's opponents to understand their extremism?

Lawyers and political aides to Mr. Clinton hope to keep the videotape off television news broadcasts and out of the hands of his political opponents.

Cheap credits play into the hands of perestroika's opponents by deferring the day of reckoning.

Is this a desire to sideline some Members, including those from the National Front, for fear of playing into the hands of our opponents here?

And it played into the hands of their nationalist opponents who say Japan is taking advantage of Russia's weakness.