And there will inevitably be governments in OGP that fail to live up to their commitments or take actions inimical to OGP's guiding principles.
And he was not role-playing, as he might have been had he been invited to participate in the thought experiment I described earlier or told to write a paper titled "How I Would React If I Were Asked to Perform an Action Inimical to My Values".
"The very notion that there has to be a meltdown first before shareholders can swing into action is inimical to good governance," said Phil Angelides, the state treasurer of California.
But the sum of Doha's recent actions equals a foreign policy inimical to both the interests of its Arab neighbors – and to the United States.
In other works he criticized the jury system and, believing that secrecy is inimical to justice, urged publicity for all court actions.
They distrusted executive authority because their experience with colonial governors had taught them that executive power was inimical to liberty, because they felt betrayed by the actions of George III, the king of Great Britain and Ireland, and because they considered a strong executive incompatible with the republicanism embraced in the Declaration of Independence (1776).
In an address Monday to Russia's foreign envoys, Putin spoke about the West in his habitually inimical but non-concrete tone, accusing it of "unilateral actions that contradict international law" with "so-called humanitarian operations" and "intervention in internal conflicts".
Some historians have portrayed his actions, particularly his interventions in papal elections, as inimical to the interests of the empire, but they too often overlook this point.
They wrote, "your position of fiduciary trust on the board of a company that is currently subject to numerous and deeply troubling investigations, including two federal actions filed in January alleging deceptive practices harmful to students and taxpayers, is inimical to your position of trust as a leader and officer of the University of California".
It is clearly inimical to justice.
The two things are not inimical.
