The idea that the economy is an adversarial relationship where one person's gain is another person's loss is probably the biggest fallacy that covers economic policy.
In cases dependent on witness testimony, our adversarial legal system pits one person's word against another.
Even the message of the Sleep Number Bed itself, with its two independently inflatable halves, was that your sleep should not be compromised by the adversarial preferences for firmness of the person you love.
No management person who has had a less than adversarial relationship with the union seems to survive.
In person, too, Mr. Morozov can quickly turn adversarial, and not only when he threatens to stop talking because his interlocutor's knowledge "is too limited".
The part of the reason is because while the naive adversarial users had no knowledge about the identity of a person, strong adversarial users had significant knowledge regarding schedule of the targeted users (i.e., close friends) thus spending more time to guess.
18 41), holding that the plain reading of Article 21(4)(d) of the Statute provided for a right to defend oneself in person, this interpretation being supported by the essentially adversarial nature of the ICTY proceedings (Prosecutor v. Milošević 4 April 2003, paras. 18 20).
It was a much more adversarial setup, with six (or more) reporters asking questions of one person.
The problem is that our adversarial system is ill-suited to answer the question, after a conviction, of whether the person actually committed the crime.
But even Dr. Exner, the developer of the comprehensive system, agreed that the test "can be abused unwittingly by the ill-trained person," and he said he was uncomfortable with the use of the test in "adversarial" settings, like custody disputes, unless the psychologist was working for the court, rather than for one parent or the other.
