"Today they [my opponents] are celebrating because they have managed to bring an adversary – an enemy – before the executioner's squad.
From the early 1990s, the public literature of US defence policy shows, strategic and military planners foresaw a world in which the United States had no significant state adversary.
The traditional response to the announcement of a female adversary leads the forums to wildly speculate: "Could she really be the Rani?" as if bringing back a twice-used 80s panto villain played by Kate O'Mara would be high up Steven Moffat's to-do list.
The bulb-headed supervillain with low self-esteem in Megamind proves braver than his superhero adversary.
But now Mohamed Aboutrika, one of Egypt's greatest footballers of all time, is battling an adversary far more formidable than even the best international defence as he faces down a government freeze on his assets over allegations that a company he co-founded aided the Muslim Brotherhood.
Pica said that his old adversary "had a charmed political life and you can never count a guy like O'Malley out".
As Russia squared up to the west over its antics in Ukraine, several central European states expressed opposition to the sanctions the EU slapped on its big eastern adversary.
"In 36 years in the United States Senate, I cannot recall another instance in which senators wrote directly to advise another country – much less a longtime foreign adversary – that the president does not have the constitutional authority to reach a meaningful understanding with them," Biden wrote.
Taking a job as judge on the show would mean an 11-hour, twice-weekly commute – as both Cowell and Cole will stay as judges on the UK version – but Cowell believes the journey is worth it to make sure The X Factor format that he owns triumphs over American Idol, which was devised by British friend and adversary Simon Fuller.
The former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley, who has spent more time than any other Democrat in Iowa in recent months – and is viewed by some as Clinton's most likely adversary for the nomination – has a current polling average in the state of 0.3%.
He said Nato was pushing ahead with plans for a very high readiness joint taskforce, "in order to convince Russia, or any other state adversary, that any attack on one Nato member will inevitably lead them into a conflict with the whole alliance".
