Describing the absence of equality or competitiveness
Situation: talking about a president of a country. Only the incumbent one is okay. All other candidates are either too inexperienced or are simply stupid.
Question: How to describe this situation?
1) At the present moment I don't see anyone equal to him
2) At the present moment I don't see any adequate counterpart for him
3) At the present moment I don't see any right substitute for him
4) At the present moment I don't see any proper replacement for him
5) At the present moment I don't see any prospective successor to him
What's the right way?
Solution 1:
One might also refer to “no worthy opponents”, “no significant challengers”, or “no plausible opposition”, besides previous suggestions.
Note, a previous answer hinted at replacing the loquacious “At the present moment” by presently or by currently. Any of currently, at the moment, at present will work as a replacement. Some people might use presently but others will object to it because presently is commonly used by different people in different senses: “At the present time; now; currently”, versus “Before long; soon”, which is to say, not now, not at present, but at some future time.
Solution 2:
In that particular situation, I'd say he has no viable opponents.
Solution 3:
I would use "Presently" rather than "At the present mopment" - or "Currently" perhaps.
"Presently, he has no equal amongst his opponents" or, rearranging, "No one else [standing] is currently equal to the task"
or as Kevin said "He has no viable opponents"/"He is without viable opposition"