The phrase "adversarial relations" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a relationship characterized by conflict, opposition, or hostility between parties.
Example: "The adversarial relations between the two countries have led to increased tensions and diplomatic challenges."
Alternatives: "hostile relations" or "conflictual relations".
"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.
"Regulation becomes a process of negotiation without any possibility of regulators maintaining an external, adversarial, relation," he said.
It is hard to see this being reconstituted in South Korea, with its adversarial industrial relations, or the United States, with its enthusiasm for labour mobility.
The new head of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry says the adversarial workplace relations system no longer works and cries of "Work Choices" whenever a change is proposed are holding the country back.
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.
For example, a study released last month by the Aspen Institute detailed the "important lessons to be learned from Pittsburgh's transformation from traditional, adversarial management-labor relations to the productive partnership that exists today".
