Sentence examples similar to adversarial operatives from inspiring English sources

Similarly, principal agent approaches can foster adversarial rather than co-operative relationships, and inappropriately simplify relationships and interests.

A study of health authority contracting completed by one of the authors in the 1990s [ 25] found a cycle of adjustment in which more adversarial contracting relations gave way to more co-operative ones, and this pattern was repeated after the establishment of LHBs.

Thus an adversarial relationship between CNP and S1P signaling pathways may be operative in event such as vascular smooth muscle remodeling.

"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.

And adversarial.

Ours is an adversarial system.

"We have an adversarial system.

Much like the online ads discovered by Facebook, messages spread by Soviet-era operatives were meant to look as though they were written by bona fide political activists in the United States, disguising the involvement of an adversarial foreign power.

"It was not adversarial.

It was more adversarial.

Not an adversarial process.