Sentence examples for antagonistic that from inspiring English sources

During the Revolutionary War, relations between patriot parishioners and a Tory priest here became so antagonistic that the latter would not preach without pistols at hand.

Anti-Pop Consortium – Apparently (From Culture King) Welcome return of a New York group that, before their split in 2003, made hip-hop so rhythmically antagonistic that Radiohead invited them on tour during their difficult phase.

"I think in a time like ours, where so much of the public discourse tells us that we are antagonistic, that we're separate, fiction is a wonderful way to remind ourselves that actually that's a lie".

But Middleton has assembled a fascinating collage of voices – some of them reverent, some gossipy, some antagonistic – that present the story of Elizabeth's reign from an illuminating range of perspectives.

She's one of the most bewildering women I've ever met: one moment, she is utter charm; the next moment, she's so antagonistic that she comes perilously close to impertinence.

From the start, Treasury and Fed officials have steered between what Mr. Bernanke recently described as "Scylla and Charybdis" — being perceived as too easy and too coddling of banks on the one hand, or so tough and antagonistic that investors and consumers alike become even more anxious.

Selection on host modifiers is sexually antagonistic in that, conversely, host mutants that enhance Wolbachia in females are favoured whereas suppressors are not.

Some people are just antagonistic like that.

It is well known that sexually antagonistic mutations that confer cytoplasmic male sterility are often harboured within the mitochondrial genomes of hermaphroditic plants.

However, a second possibility is that plasmids such as RP4 carry interbacterial antagonistic factors that provide fitness to their hosts under certain conditions.

These results confirm that INS-1 and INS-18 are physiological, antagonistic ligands that inhibit insulin signaling and promote dauer formation.