Sentence examples for adversarial contest from inspiring English sources

"People like to sort of set this up as an adversarial contest," Mr. Gent told CNBC.

"We have not looked at this as an adversarial contest," he said.

He once told me that he had a need to debate, but that he regarded debate as something like a scientific process, rather than an adversarial contest.

That's when the adversarial contest, central to our criminal justice, breaks down, and the innocent are convicted or the guilty walk free.

Who would wish their confusion, shock and trauma to be pored over and torn to pieces in the adversarial contest of the court room, after a police process?

And elections are by their nature adversarial contests where one candidate wins and one loses.

"There should be a rule on the internet where people should have to say, 'I object!' before many of their categorical statements, because at least it would situate the whole thing as a kind of contest or adversarial game".

But I think it is the negativity of politics which drives much of the reaction; the fact that our presidential elections are adversarial, winner-take-all contests that almost require candidates to try to lower the public's opinion of their opponent.

While presidential contests are by nature adversarial, when a winner has been chosen, the common goal has to be forward progress.

First-past-the-post, majoritarian and adversarial, it emerged to produce stable governments from a two-party contest.

US officials did not say if the secret Fisa court will hear arguments from the newly established "amicus", who will be empowered by the Freedom Act to contest the government's contentions before the previously non-adversarial court.