The neighbor who said this to me is traumatized, brilliant, a world traveler, adversarial, apocalyptic, the survivor of an abused childhood who dreams of being safe.
A historic agreement on Iran's nuclear programme was made possible by months of unprecedented secret meetings between US and Iranian officials, in further signs of the accelerating detente between two of the world's most adversarial powers, it emerged on Sunday.
And thus began the Culture Wars, which have managed a long and vituperative run without actually quelling the human desire for something better, a world view not adversarial but cooperative.
For Augustine, the problem was of a more general and visceral sort: it was the concern with the issue of how to make sense of and live within a world that seemed so adversarial and fraught with danger, a world in which so much of what matters most to us is so easily lost [see e.g. Confessions IV.x.15].
For those who might feel marginalized in a world that appears constantly adversarial, this kind of symbolism remains a potent source of publicity for IS.
Although the reform proposal was billed as an attempt to curb abuses by bringing France more in line with legal norms in the adversarial justice system of the English-speaking world, critics denounced it as an attempt to place legal proceedings under tighter government control.
Classifiers operating in a dynamic, real world environment, are vulnerable to adversarial activity, which causes the data distribution to change over time.
In today's world, the limitations of the adversarial, "either with us or against us" form of argument are increasingly apparent leading to political, religious and social conflicts.
In today's world, the limitations of the adversarial, "either with us or against us" form of argument are increasingly apparent by the fact that the argument leads to political, religious and social conflicts.
Above all, most economists remain stuck in a cheery "win-win" fantasy of how trade works and are unable to see the brutally adversarial dynamics of trade in the real world.
It's in our best interests to cooperate, not be adversarial when possible, with other nations around the world, but we do have to maintain our defense.
