By removing the opportunity to force a general election at any time following a government defeat, for example when the government lost the vote on alterations to the "bedroom tax", this government has removed the incentive for persuasive, adversarial discussion in the house as the government can rely on the "five-year rule" to override the opposition.
How can couples get on a "platform" in order to have non-adversarial discussions?
The discussion becomes adversarial and goes in circles, with no structured approach to solving the problem.
More recent treatments of aggressive or adversarial styles have arisen in discussions of the persistently low number of women in philosophy, compared with other humanistic disciplines (see, for example, Burrow 2010, Rooney 2010, and Beebee 2014).
Consensus decision making involves a collaborative discussion, rather than an adversarial debate.
Online discussions of these issues often become adversarial, but Lee doesn't want the audience's blood to boil, as much as their skins to crawl.
And even though opinions on the path forward diverge, and lawmakers have yet to jump on the bandwagon, the discussions are evidence of a new adversarial posture toward the court for progressives and the Democratic Party.
Almost four decades later the drug problem problem and adversarial politics still get in the way of rational discussions about effective ways of reducing the harm from drugs and drug policy.
While Rudolph W. Giuliani stimulated the discussion of a radically reformed system, his adversarial style prevented him from making it a reality.
Previously, when I was an attorney and had to negotiate or have a business discussion, those conversations could occur in an adversarial way.
