Sentence examples for antagonizes from inspiring English sources

It also antagonizes (opposes) the action of insulin.

The Egyptian government seems to have realized, belatedly, that criminalizing the work of journalists — and exposing them to public vigilantism — antagonizes not only the entire foreign press corps but also their countries of origin.

McCain has broad appeal; Clinton antagonizes almost all Republicans and many independents and Democrats; Obama's real support beyond Democrats is unknown.

As the Dalai Lama sees it, countries must pursue their interests without harming those of others, and Tibetan independence, in addition to being an unrealistic ideal, needlessly antagonizes Beijing.

When the Mail insults a celebrity in Britain, it antagonizes exactly one constituency: the celebrity.

I take the cards to the laundry room, where the machines no longer accept coins, a fact that antagonizes some of the old guard, such as Mrs. H, who feels it is an outrage, the machines unreliable, the expense exorbitant.

The White House could have backed away so that it didn't antagonize the members who support these programs... but it didn't.

All of this bitterly antagonized the Japanese.

Meanwhile, Sultan ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad quarreled with the caliph; he set up an anticaliph of his own and further antagonized his Muslim subjects, who were unremittingly suspicious of a regime once subject to the Karakitai infidels and whose Kipchak mercenary militia and brutal commanders brought cruelty and desolation wherever they marched.

But the inquiries made by the Sunni religious authorities antagonized the vested interests, damaged the popularity of the Ak Koyunlu regime, and discredited Sunni fanaticism.

The text, however, was denounced as unorthodox by the patriarchs of Alexandria and Antioch; and, along with a subsequent work of apologetics (Homologia), it antagonized both the enemies and supporters of reunion.