The phrase "adversarial confrontation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts involving conflict, opposition, or competitive situations, often in legal, political, or academic discussions.
Example: "The debate turned into an adversarial confrontation, with both sides unwilling to compromise."
Alternatives: "hostile encounter" or "contentious dispute."
"We must seek to move away from adversarial confrontation and towards peaceful reconciliation and conflict resolution," Mr. Pannell went on.
The audience listened with palpable intensity to Mr. Adams's incandescent "Dharma at Big Sur" and to Yo-Yo Ma's impassioned playing in the fitful Cello Concerto by Lutoslawski, which is like some adversarial confrontation between unhinged cellist and orchestra.
This article considers international norms concerning the right to adversarial confrontation in positing a normative analytical standard of admissibility with respect to the "right to examine" guaranteed under Article 67(1)(e) of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Perhaps one of the problems in Washington is the overabundance of lawyers: people trained in adversarial confrontation and for whom winning is the end-all and be-all.
A firebrand of the militant trade union movement who rose in the Labor ranks through the tough 1930s, Eddie Ward's visceral opposition to Liberal leader Robert Menzies made his reputation, but it was his adversarial confrontations within his own party that sealed his fate.
And while those of you with parliaments that make no claims to motherhood may smile with a certain self-satisfaction at the comeuppance of Westminster, be aware that the American system was also based on an adversarial two-party confrontation, borrowed from England.
Several times, Mr. McCain emphasized that he sought "no confrontation" with Mr. Bush and that he did not want an "adversarial relationship" with him, or "some huge confrontation at the convention".
We may not have the theatre of US supreme court confrontations to bring these differences to a head outside the election cycle but our adversarial two-party system has the same tendency to hone in on and amplify our disagreements.
"The DNA of both [America and China] could generate a growing adversarial relationship, much as Germany and Britain drifted from friendship to confrontation…Neither Washington nor Beijing has much practice in co-operative relations with equals.
Ours is an adversarial system.
