He pointed out that having founded the FN and "led it during a period of 40 years of constant adversity" he considered himself a good "locomotive" to head the local regional election campaign.
"Psychiatric care is becoming a consumer good in a society in which there is a low tolerance for frustration and adversity," said one Spain-based doctor whose identity has been verified but who wanted to remain anonymous.
There is a lot of talk about the vicissitudes of life, and being equanimous in the face of adversity, all of which I find rather quaint.
Paul Chamberlain is articulate, impossibly cheerful in the face of adversity and heroic – a Briton of the sort you might have thought would be seen no more after Lawrence Oates strode into the Antarctic snowstorm in an effort to save Scott and his other companions.
It's not a big budget film, and there is an aura of playful experimentation that seems to be sustaining the cast through the mud-spattered adversity.
And although in a rare pre-election interview with the Brazilian women's magazine Claudia, she said, "We [women] are not a bunch of melted-butter [softies], incapable of facing up to adversity.
Yet Lee 34-2-1 34-2-1 34-2-1one-time protégé of Emanuel Steward blessed with power in both hands and a track record of rallying from adversity, showed why he's earned a reputation for in-ring escape jobs.
While all the talk this week has been of Bournemouth's rise to prominence from adversity, Rotherham have been on a similar journey, having also started the 2008-09 season in League Two with minus 17 points and under Steve Evans they have won back-to-back promotions and now secured their place in the second tier for another year.
If ever there was a case of adversity furnishing strength, this is it.
It has been noted that the players themselves seem infantilised within this mob-handed structure, unresponsive in adversity, sporting instincts oddly blunted.
But arguably no greater match-winning innings has ever been born in such hopeless adversity.
