Sentence examples similar to adversarial exchange from inspiring English sources
In education, the very word "negotiation" may conjure images of tense and adversarial exchanges — teacher contracts, strikes, conflict resolution, or union grievances, to name a few.
'Relational contracting' in the NHS, at times almost adversarial, includes the informal exchange of information and the negotiation of adjustments to services and costs in between re-negotiations of a whole contract (see [ 13]).
"Look, I'm not here to be adversarial," he said after one heated exchange.
Their relationship with exchanges need not be wholly adversarial.
Despite Vladimir Putin's best efforts to restore the adversarial relationship between Russia and the West, a nuclear exchange with America and Russia of a size that could end all life on the planet is hard to imagine.
Instead, the adversarial climate of political debate leads to the kind of taunting and exchange of abuse in the House of Commons earlier this week that does nothing to show youngsters how to avoid antisocial behaviour.
Volunteers asked to do a jigsaw puzzle and then read a story about an exchange between two people were more likely to judge the relationship between the pair as adversarial if the puzzle pieces were rough, not smooth.
Carr sees David Gregory's adversarial NBC interview Sunday with Glenn Greenwald as an example of media friendly fire (Carr is referring to an exchange below at 1m45s).
Success requires a policy that accounts for all the motivations adversarial states have for seeking nuclear weapons capabilities, and the need to provide reciprocal economic and security assurances in exchange for verifiable steps to roll back those programs.
Ours is an adversarial system.
