"Decades of adversarial relations between our two countries provided the background of this incident.
Mr. Putin also wants to reconsider Russia's traditionally adversarial relations with NATO, as he indicated on his visit to the alliance's headquarters in Brussels last Wednesday.
"How to Cover a War," by Marvin Kalb (Op-Ed, Oct. 17), asserts that the press is not prepared for this role because of its adversarial relations with the government, budget cuts and ratings pressures.
The accord also has the potential to be a turning point in normalising Iran's adversarial relations with the west, which have been a constant in world affairs since the Islamic revolution of 1979.
The Iraq Chalabi envisioned -- one that would make peace with Israel, have adversarial relations with Iran and become a democratic model for (or, seen another way, a threat to) Saudi Arabia -- coincided neatly with the plan of the administration neoconservatives, who saw post-Hussein Iraq as a launching pad for what they described as the democratization of the Middle East.
That detente between Democrats and Big Pharma was a departure from their previously adversarial relations, and may be coming to an end with Obama's presidency winding down.
I started to sense that this is a very violent portion, filled with adversarial relations, endless hatred and wishes of ill will, triumphalism, and a very male psychology of win/lose, defeat or be defeated, be cursed or be blessed -- and take no prisoners.
Our somewhat adversarial relations with China and Russia got ample airing, with Bauer foiled more than once by his bad history with the Russians from Season 8. Sure, he did assassinate the Russian foreign minister and, er, everybody else in the vicinity, but only after he caused the murder of his girlfriend and, oh yes, a near-war between the US and an Iran analogue called Kamistan.
In the farm-worker community example, given the power differentials that exist between farmworkers and growers, the economic dependence of farmworkers, and the history of adversarial relations, it is critical to determine whether farmworkers will be comfortable expressing their opinions and whether their voice will be heard if growers are also at the table.
Thus a greater concentration on the discrete norms of contract planning and 'completeness' – by attempting to draft a 'hard' contract that builds in appropriate incentives, fixes responsibilities, specifies what happens when unexpected events arise, and is rigorously enforced – might be predicted to lead to conflictual or adversarial relations with high costs to both parties.
