Hamas is a dangerous adversary that may never accept Israel's right to exist.
The potential adversary that will dominate American military planning in the decades ahead is China.
It saw the US as a "tough, determined adversary that can be manipulated and wounded".
Wal-Mart is an adversary that has the ability to mount a steady, relentless attack.
Every poem Glück writes seems one she has denied her adversary — that is, every other human being.
She added, "I know that reconciling with an adversary that can be as brutal as the Taliban sounds distasteful, even unimaginable.
It gave definite form, Mukherjee says, to an adversary that was essentially formless: "Cancer, a shape-shifting disease of colossal diversity, was recast as a single, monolithic entity".
But after hours of fruitless negotiation, the organizers of the modern evacuation venture were defeated by an adversary that prevailed where Hitler's battalions and dive bombers failed.
WHATEVER plans European leaders had made for their holidays are being disrupted by an adversary that never takes a break: the bond markets.
But it has consistently meddled in Sri Lankan affairs, stymieing Colombo's efforts against an adversary that has used almost exclusively violent means to achieve its ends.
"In this particular case, the F.D.A. took on an adversary that has some ability to stand up and say, 'We're not going to be treated this way,' " said Jim Prevor, editor in chief of Produce Business, a trade magazine.
