It is evidently impossible to make a movie about two adversarial women without dragging in their families, because without needy children and angry, fed-up husbands — David Schwimmer plays Rachel's mewling husband, while a barely present Jamey Sheridan plays Erica's — these two female characters and their desires, successes and rages apparently wouldn't rate screen time.
Kenyans are hoping that their country's 42m-odd people can cope with adversarial politics without coming to real blows.
We must question whether we are able to receive evidence from children in an adversarial system without bullying and intimidating them.
But the media needs more Tim Russerts, reporters who maintain the ideals of 1970s adversarial reporting without sliding into the partisan style of 2000s news coverage.
Russert was one of the few remaining reporters who adhered to the norms of adversarial journalism without resorting to partisan journalism.
Because of all this, we are all quite ready to join adversarial groups without thinking about the harm we may be inflicting in order to gain the benefits of social acceptance, pride, and status.
After he tweeted that "fake news" media in which he counts the "failing" New York Times, NBC News, ABC News, CBS News, and CNN are the enemy of the American people, Senator John McCain said, "If you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press, and without it, I'm afraid we'd lose so much of our individual liberties over time.
But surely it is possible to be anxious, and indeed adversarial, about the sexism they face without being anxious about girls themselves, thus having them internalise this anxiety?
Speaking as a witness during the first public hearings into the Snowden revelations, Judge Robertson said that without an adversarial debate the courts should not be expected to create a secret body of law that authorised such broad surveillance programmes.
"Without an adversarial process, you really can't even have a judicial process," Paul said Wednesday evening.
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.
