The phrase "adversarial treatment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing conflict, competition, or situations where one party is treated in a hostile or antagonistic manner.
Example: "The report highlighted the adversarial treatment of the defendant during the trial, raising concerns about fairness in the judicial process."
Alternatives: "hostile treatment" or "antagonistic approach".
That did happen last time, but the FCC has bolstered the ECFS since then, and may even have been prepared for this kind of adversarial treatment.
Malpractice reform is a very important step to get doctors on board as we move toward a more evidence-based system that transitions away from adversarial treatment of medical errors toward a patient-safety approach.
There were two previous attempts on her life, but she didn't report those to the Detroit police because of their adversarial treatment of queer and transgendered people -- not a total surprise as this is the same city where you can be fired for having a sexual orientation other than straight, after all.
In building questions, interviewers face cross-cutting pressures to be both formally neutral and adversarial in their treatment of public figures.
More recent treatments of aggressive or adversarial styles have arisen in discussions of the persistently low number of women in philosophy, compared with other humanistic disciplines (see, for example, Burrow 2010, Rooney 2010, and Beebee 2014).
Engel and Staley also take issue with the movie's treatment of the FDA, which it portrays as adversarial toward Woodroof and as too slow in responding to AIDS generally.
Finally, by conceptualizing women and their fetuses or newborns as having conflicting interests, rather than as in symbiotic harmony (as they usually are), the medical establishment promotes an adversarial view which lends itself to overriding pregnant women's treatment decisions.
1Plea bargaining tends to be associated with adversarial legal systems and refers to negotiations involving an admission of guilt by the accused in return for more favourable treatment by the courts.
Ours is an adversarial system.
"We have an adversarial system.
