Relations between U.S and China remain tenuous and marked with antagonism and mistrust.
Recent state election campaigns have been marked not by communal antagonism, but voters' mature disgruntlement over bad and corrupt government, pot-holed roads, poisonous water and meagre power supplies.
The additive effect of the compounds was deduced if ΣFIC was ≥1 and <2; while ΣFIC <1 denotes a synergy of the compounds for antimalarial activity, and ΣFIC ≥2 and <4 reflects a slight <span class="lh">antagonism, which is marked when ΣFIC ≥4 (Gupta et al., 2002).
When Thompson began his work in the late 1940's, in a Britain marked by profound social and political antagonisms, Whig historians and Marxists alike tended to portray British history as a story of unending conflict.
His reign was troubled, being marked by conflicts with some of his brothers, antagonism with the various branches of the Buyids for influence in Baghdad, and attacks by the Byzantine Empire under John I Tzimiskes.
This alternative history focuses not on the conflicts, antagonisms, and power struggles that have marked human progress, but on "the empathic evolution of the human race and the profound ways it has shaped our development and will likely decide our fate as a species".
After Bill Clinton's visit in March, which marked the beginning of an end to decades of antagonism between the world's most powerful country and its largest democracy, India looks ever more securely committed to opening itself up to the world, modernising its economy and taking up the place as a great power to which it aspires.
He has shown that it is possible to keep the crime rate down without generating the kind of antagonism between the N.Y.P.D. and the community that marked the Giuliani administration.
The deal also marked another sign of the possible easing of more than three decades of mutual antagonism between the United States and the Islamic Republic, which was formed following the 1979 overthrow of the U.S.-backed monarchy in Tehran.
