Sentence examples for antagonistic forces from inspiring English sources

The futility of this — the antagonistic forces of need and resistance — leaves them frustrated and evasive.

All of which leaves the largely peaceful Yazidis of Qahtaniya in the all-too-familiar position for Iraqi minorities of existing between two antagonistic forces.

Until now the task of searching the mountains and ravines here has been entrusted to fighters from the Eastern Shura, a regional government that is the source of three different and sometimes antagonistic forces.

Last month, in its annual report, the ruling party described the media as a "hostile press" that is "still primarily owned and controlled by antagonistic forces with minority interests".

What does that mean?" In other words, instead of creating a drama, in which character is revealed through contention with antagonistic forces, Taymor is aiming for myth — Spiderosity, so to speak.

He made close, clever readings of favorite movies ("Tender Mercies," "Carnal Knowledge"), and — uniting accounting and therapy — drew charts that showed lives zigzagging into emotional credit and debt in response to antagonistic forces.

To them, the police are an antagonistic force which must be kept in its place.

The nefarious Team Rocket provide an antagonistic force, as does the player's childhood rival.

It is the antagonistic force in your government, the only thing that seriously disturbs and endangers your Union.

Asura's Wrath includes many characters lifted from the Vedas: the dragon Vitra (Vlitra) serves as the key antagonistic force, the goddess Durga, Deus and Mithra.

The Combine, abbreviated as CMB and referred to as "Our Benefactors", is a multidimensional empire which serves as the primary antagonistic force in the video game Half-Life 2, developed by Valve Corporation.