Sentence examples for adversarial toward from inspiring English sources

He told friends that his predecessor, Arthur Levitt, had failed to achieve some of his objectives because he became too adversarial toward the interests that he was regulating.

But Judge Smithson said the prosecutors' zeal made them overly adversarial toward the troopers while presenting evidence to the grand jury.

The appellate judges also rebutted Judge Smithson's finding that prosecutors' zeal had made them overly adversarial toward the troopers while presenting evidence to the grand jury, turning the proceeding into what he likened to "a mini-trial".

The teachers' union, which has been without a contract for more than a year, has been more adversarial toward the city than supportive, a relationship that promises to sour further if the Department of Education continues to back the public release of teacher rankings based on student test scores.

"Fideism" is the name given to that school of thought to which Tertullian himself is frequently said to have subscribed which answers that faith is in some sense independent of, if not outright adversarial toward, reason.

(The troubling moral ambivalence of today's South Korea toward the neighboring predicament was evident again in early December, when a Freedom House event in Seoul convened to discuss Kim's predations drew protests that it was too adversarial toward Dear Leader).

While Russia continues to arm our potential adversaries, Russia's official foreign policy directives take an increasingly adversarial stance toward the United States.

"This adversarial reaction toward Internet radio is counterproductive," he said.

He also continued to strike an adversarial tone toward BP.

Should the Obama administration take a more adversarial stance toward business, plainer fault lines may emerge.

Many techies also evince an aggrieved, adversarial attitude toward the establishment or, in tech-speak, TPTB, "The Powers That Be".