It is also inimical to the spirit that sees a nation through its difficulties.
The virtue of so much of the programme makes it all the more irritating that the scheme is tarnished by association with a policy that relies on style rather than substance - with the little substance it contains being inimical to the interests of responsible democracy.
But deflation – falling prices – is inimical to growth, as the recent experience of Japan has demonstrated.
Truffaut famously said that the words "British" and "cinema" were inimical.
In 2007 an alert customs official in Buenos Aires opened a suitcase stuffed with $800,000 in cash that was, its Venezuelan owner later confessed, a donation to Ms Fernández's election campaign.Alba was inimical to Brazil's ambitions to lead South America.
The idea of going back to a tacit bargain that tolerates organised crime, favoured by some in Mexico, is inimical to the rule of law, and thus to democracy and a free society.
Less surprisingly, he continues to enrage Hungary's Socialist opposition, as well as the liberals and many of Budapest's intelligentsia and press, with his ruthless pragmatism mixed with ideological zeal, which they all decry as inimical to Hungary's unschooled democracy and against the spirit of pluralism and fair play.
As it entered the 1980s, India could not have been more closely regulated, sheltered or taxed, nor the attitude of its political elites more inimical to enterprise.
The Bolshevik leader's mindset was revealed by the question "What is he?", thus reducing men to reifications of inimical ideologies.
(Full disclosure: I used to write for them).Though the editorial makes clear in great detail that they think there are many reasons to prefer Mr Obama, the board nevertheless has a lot of nice thing to say about John McCain his history of principled stands inimical to his electoral prospects and to his standing in his own party, for one.
In its global pursuit of sources of energy and raw materials to fuel its economic growth, China has strengthened bonds with countries distinctly inimical to American interests, including Venezuela, Sudan, Zimbabwe and most crucially Iran, a big supplier of oil to China.
