Sentence examples for is somewhat adversarial from inspiring English sources

During any Administration, the relationship between the White House and the press corps is somewhat adversarial.

Consequently, much of the research and interest surrounding urban wildlife was somewhat adversarial.

"Part of what we're trying to do is help build relationships between members of Congress and the grassroots such that there is more mutual trust than exists right now, so it didn't surprise me at all that the questions were somewhat adversarial," she said.

The relationship between a president and the media is always somewhat adversarial, but most occupants of the Oval Office manage to show a grudging respect for the importance of a robust, rigorous press.

Its song was somewhat, somewhat erased.

Have they, for example, simply gone separate ways or are they engaged in a somewhat adversarial relationship?

He realizes that all the people that he and Sam had saved as hunters are now dead, that he and Sam have a distant and somewhat adversarial relationship.

"So the normal, somewhat adversarial relationship between two reporters and an editor, or a reporter and a reporter, would be compounded by a sense that someone was doing something to somebody".

The goal instruction to "generate as many reasons as possible" resulted in deeper, more contingent arguments, closer to Mercer's (1996) notion of exploratory talk, whereas the persuade goal resulted in arguments that were more adversarial and somewhat better supported.

Ours is an adversarial system.

The political culture is brutally adversarial.