How To Use Adversary In A Sentence

But often our dream date is the loudmouth down the hall, our office adversary, even the scary boss -- in short, someone we avoid even standing near in real life.
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That seems to have been the spiteful remark of an adversary; for at least while Churchill was still in politics, the Congress was staffed, and led by men and women of calibre and integrity.
Our legal system is fundamentally an adversary system - and this solution would betray its very nature.
The significant discontinuities elsewhere support the thesis of adversary politics.

Cynical adversary stances are not helpful - belief is necessary.
With the other he seized the top of a wooden packing-box, and holding this in front of his chest and abdomen as a Kaffir would hold his pavise, or rawhide shield, to ward off a thrust from an assagai, he walked straight toward his adversary. With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon
With a quick pull, Baxorth released his scimitar from the ground's clutches and took a couple steps to his left, toward his agile adversary.
There is too much at stake in this relationship for either side to really push an adversary agenda with the other.
One of the final panels proffers Der Führer's personal opinion of his adversary: ‘He is an utterly amoral, repulsive creature.’
The American replied in a similar playful ferocity — the two warriors made a little tournament for us there on the plains before Jaffa, in the which diachylon, being a little worsted, challenged his adversary to a race, and fled away on his grey, the Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
But the enemy of concord and the adversary of peace finding his projects to be thus illuded and condemned, and seeing the little fruit he had gotten by setting them all by the ears, resolved once again to try his wits, and stir up new discords and troubles, which befel in this manner. The Fourth Book. XVIII. Wherein Are Decided the Controversies of the Helmet of Mambrino and of the Pannel, with Other Strange and Most True Adventures
Reika parries a downward thrust and spins around, backhanding her adversary.
Fans were delighted to hear their old adversary, Argentina, had crashed out of the tournament by failing to beat Sweden.
Every foreign journalist, every adversary, and every ally will be reading the tea leaves to make their own assessment how badly Obama was damaged by his party's loss of political and popular support, and either take it in stride, or dangerously miscalculate. Amb. Marc Ginsberg: The Post Election Foreign Policy Hangover
But the Joyce-Eliot group come later in time, puritanism is not their main adversary, they are able from the start to see through most of the things that their predecessors had fought for. Inside the Whale
Pope gained but little in the warfare he waged with him, for this plain reason -- that the great poet accuses his adversary of dullness, which was not by any means one of his sins, instead of selecting one of the numerous faults, such as pertness, petulance, and presumption, of which he was really guilty. The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield
He was supposedly a cunning manipulator who lured his adversary into a fatal trap.
He and his adversary the sheriff improbably both sleep with the same woman.
His rivals knew that they could expect no quarter from such a ruthless adversary.
I resolved, therefore, that if my immediate union with my cousin would conduce either to her's or my father's happiness, my adversary's designs against my life should not retard it a single hour. Chapter 5
Without warning, he pulled his adversary's hood down, which drew a collective gasp from the crowd.
She would prove herself a formidable adversary for Elizabeth. ELIZABETH AND MARY: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
The principal adversary and all but a few of its satraps gave up the conflict.
He tried to ridicule his adversary by broadly expatiating upon his clothing and appearance which, it seems, did not meet with the standard set by London outfitters.
This point deserves attention, not for the sake of the miserable and ruinous advantage which is obtained by taunting an adversary in controversy with inconsistency till you drive him to improve his logical position by increasing the exactingness of his demands, but because the advocates of Home Rule (honestly enough, no doubt) confuse the matter under discussion by a strange kind of intellectual shuffle. England's Case Against Home Rule
Charity knows no adversary; sagacity breeds no worry.
ANTICHRIST is the adversary of Christ; an adversary really, a friend pretendedly. The Riches of Bunyan
I suggest that it is humanism - both religious and secular - that is the dominant philosophical adversary.
But the lawyer is always in a hurry; there is the clepsydra limiting his time, and the brief limiting his topics, and his adversary is standing over him and exacting his rights. Theaetetus
If the chief virtue of the adversary system lies in giving opposing parties a hearing, its greatest vice lies in giving those parties an incentive to silence each other.
Why does not the cheated publican beg leave to check the gulosity of his defrauder with a repetatur haustus, and the pummelled plaintiff neutralise the malice of his adversary, by requesting to have the rest of the beating in presence of the court, -- if it is not that such conduct would run counter to all the conclusions of experience, and be the procreation of the mischief it affected to destroy? Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2
I suggest that it is humanism - both religious and secular - that is the dominant philosophical adversary.
When the diachylon Arab saw the American Arab, he straightway galloped his steed towards him, took his pipe, which he delivered at his adversary in guise of a jereed, and galloped round and round, and in and out, and there and back again, as in a play of war. Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
Just as the Shaman was about to advance upon her downed adversary, however, a disembodied voice echoed in her ears.
The chaser is The Adversary, an evil emperor, and his numberless goblin shock-troops. Peter & Max: the Fables comics jump to novel - Boing Boing
Three separate elements neutralized advantages held by the larger power over its adversary. America Past and Present
It was dangerous territory in that sense, for Lucretius is a passionate and persuasive adversary. The Nose Knows : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
The next adversary may use chemical weapons or pull its main forces into urban areas to fight to the bitter end.
He could have taken on the best all-in wrestler and broken his adversary's neck with ease any time. WHISTLER IN THE DARK
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Areopagitica
Deliberately provoke your adversary. Find something that makes them angry and keep wheedling away on this point until they lose their temper and so the argument.
Tiamat is our prime adversary, the Black Angel who was defeated and cast into the netherworld by Aikido, the founding member of the Society.
Liu's martial arts skills make her a natural for the role, but Thurman proves to be a worthy adversary.
And the Arsenal boss would not be surprised if his old adversary made a return to management. The Sun
The aim is to damage an adversary's capacity to attack by crippling its advancing armed forces.
Rising to follow him through the doors of the ship and onto the soft, hot sands, she watched, terror-stricken, as Ryell drew his blade and approached his adversary.
The swamp's stench filled his nostrils as he rushed through the mud, splattering the grime and getting ever closer to the adversary.
MAKAP protocolagreement protocol . An attack that makes the adversary to personate the receiver successfully is proposed.
She also focuses on the ways in which the use of the adversary method as a paradigm of philosophy limits and distorts the work of philosophers.
Mr. Scheuer is out to present something perhaps slightly different from a biography — more a guide to understanding Osama bin Laden, with biographic features included, because he sees bin Laden as America's central adversary. America's Most Wanted
Compare with adversary photograph, dai Er's knowledge and technical reserve still appear very fragile.
So I heartily hope that this is simply a little soap-operatic twist to the initial set-up, to be unravelled as the series progresses, with our blackhearted bumboy prince finding an ally rather than an adversary in the hero. Kings
And he flung open the door and entered with the most severe and warlike expression, armed cap-a-pie as it were, with lance couched and plumes displayed, and glancing at his adversary, as if to say, The History of Pendennis
Catching a mercenary's outstretched torso with the broad surface of his shield, the Colonel hurled his adversary high overhead.
You are not judges now, but advocates under this adversary system we have been discussing.
Three separate elements neutralized advantages held by the larger power over its adversary. America Past and Present
His adversary is an investigative journalist whom he had agreed to help to write his biography. Times, Sunday Times
During the Cold War, the West confronted a unidimensional threat from Soviet Marxism-Leninism, an adversary whose motives were certain and whose moves were expected.
She saw him clearly - arrogant as the devil and cold as ice, a ready-made adversary.
This technique begins at the instant when the foible of the adversary's blade is against the forte of your blade.
This parable is another way applicable, and may be taken as designed to teach us to begin speedily to be religious, rather than to begin cautiously; and may mean the same with Matt.v. 25, Agree with thine adversary quickly. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
Satans, though rarely mentioned in the Old Testament are generally portrayed as obedient servants or sons of God who perform specific duties of strategic obstruction The Hebrew root of the word satan is STN, which defines an opposer, adversary, or an accuser, whereas the Greek equivalent was “Diabolos” from which derive the words diabolical and devil., again meaning no more than obstructor or slanderer. Archive 2009-04-01
Life itself is the adversary; the vagaries of history and politics are subsumed by the brute metaphysic of the real.
People of this stamp certainly look better outwardly than the immoral and profane, and yet, perhaps, are more thoroughly deceived by the great adversary of souls.
William of Poitiers more Christian in his realism, ac - ceptance of the incarnation, and his humanism than his monastic adversary? LOVE
[2] Witness his well known pun on the name of his adversary Vigilantius, whom he calls facetiously Dormitantius. The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes
Where the struggle was too strong to be defeated, they view it with abhorrence as a triumph for an adversary nation.
I believe he would prove to be a formidable adversary.
These attitudes should be of great concern; for to be effective, deterrence must not only be credible to our potential adversary but reassuring to our own people. Preventing World War III - A Realistic Grand Strategy
If it ever rises to the 80% range, the current adversary relationship would have to change.
He was a vigorous adversary to opponents, but he was also a very fair and honest man.
She was viewed as a formidable adversary and a staunch defender of the underprivileged. Times, Sunday Times
Evading the first blow, Trachoma struck out, barehanded, seizing his adversary's wrist and snapping it like a dry twig.
Cross-examination is the important devices to implement and to protect the defendant's right to confrontation, the characteristic lawsuit system in the adversary model.
As in the case for the forearm, attempts to immediately incapacitate an adversary by directing thrusts or cuts to leg muscles may not have been particularly effective.
When the diachylon Arab saw the American Arab, he straightway galloped his steed towards him, took his pipe, which he delivered at his adversary in guise of a jereed, and galloped round and round, and in and out, and there and back again, as in a play of war. Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
But Mr. Thaksin has proved a wilier adversary than Thailand's generals anticipated. Once-Stable Thailand Appears Closer Than Ever to Unraveling
He saw her as his main adversary within the company.
Silently, desperately, it is struggling against a new and all-powerful adversary, the civilization of the capitalist West.
But is a call to metaphorical arms against an imaginary adversary counter-productive?
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. Archive 2006-01-01
For the essence of the adversary is corruption and darkness, for he is hylic and composite, (49) but the essence of the unbegotten A Source Book for Ancient Church History
I'm playing an old adversary on Monday, and we're both making excuses already.
The extra long qullions are specifically designed to protect the sword hand and arm, as well as making it more difficult for the adversary to disengage.
They sought to wear down the adversary through harassing actions and protracted conflict.
How would the dark rusticism of Rakel's old band, Bad Folk, work with the tightly wound, swerving post-hardcore of Burleigh's old band, the Adversary Workers? Riverfront Times | Complete Issue
See my poor dexter, abridged to one thumb, one finger, and a stump, -- by the blow of my adversary's weapon, however, and not by any carnificial knife. The Fortunes of Nigel
My Adversary himself, now drawing to a conclusion, seems to be inclining to good opinions: and as dying men, are much given to repentance, so finding his cause at the last gasp, he unburthens his Conscience and disclaims the principles of a Common-wealth, both for himself, and for both Houses of Parliament, which is indeed to be over-officious: for one of the Houses will not think they have need of such a Compurgator. His Majesties Declaration Defended
Agreeing in some points of his history, they all celebrate his life of penitence, his mortifications, his fastings, his functions of mediator and expiator, the enmity between him and another god, his adversary, their battles, and his ascendency. The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature
Curley as a municipal politician had the keenest wits of any to ever face an adversary.
Bunker is a worthy adversary. Times, Sunday Times
His mind was too wine-muddled to think anything through, other than trading hit and miss blows with his equally inebriated adversary. TREASON KEEP
The fact that the government would welcome such politically tendentious rubbish shows how far the sclerotic gestures of the adversary culture have taken over establishment taste.
If the government is considered monolithic, journalists can report its activities, in simply comprehended and coherent terms, as an adversary out of touch with popular sentiments.
The term Satan signifies an adversary, and is applied to any angel sent upon an errand of punishment For example, Numbers xxii. The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old
Cross-examination is the important devices to implement and to protect the defendant's right to confrontation, the characteristic lawsuit system in the adversary model.
This right is fundamental to the adversary system of justice in the Untied States.
Amendments to the Criminal Procedure law in 1996 introduced adversary elements to the fact-finding process in criminal trials.
His adversary Danton and his ally Saint-Just were also young men, one in his early 30s and the other in his mid-20s.
Three separate elements neutralized advantages held by the larger power over its adversary. America Past and Present
Mr Chairman, in our country and the House in particular, we have an adversary system.
It is the classic adversary system which overlaps with a two-party system, and the arguments and votes are often predictable.
It is a necessary concomitant or consequence of this particular system which is an inquisitorial system, rather than a strict adversary system.
It took no time at all for Kissling's longtime adversary, the conservative Catholic bellyacher William Donohue, to crank up the whine machine to full throttle in protest of the bloggers 'role in Edwards' campaign. SimplyQua.com
a tougher and more redoubtable adversary than the heel-clicking, jackbooted fanatic
Printer cartridges cheap the trice of the portraying and adversary out at a cubistic tusseh pitch billy by our witness at kid abor. Rational Review
The trade unions in particular looked with deep suspicion at an administration still headed by their old adversary.
It reminds me of the old adage never wound an adversary for he will return to seek vegence on you, if you unsheath your sword, make sure you kill him. Lieberman Launches Unprovoked Attack On Harry Reid On Right-Winger Bill Bennett's Show
The moral interest of the fable, which is so powerfully sustained by the sufferings and endurance of Prometheus, would be annihilated if we could conceive of him as unsaying his high language and quailing before his successful and perfidious adversary. The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Its results depend on the opinion the opponent has of his adversary's capability to win.
For generations, Scotland has maintained an adversary culture, defining itself by its differences from England.
The significant discontinuities elsewhere support the thesis of adversary politics.
The original inspection process, which lasted several years, developed into an adversary process.
As quick as I got up to the staddle, I cocked my piece, and aimed right at his brisket, atwixt his fore legs, as near as I could, and fired -- and run; and never looked behind me, to see whether I'd killed my adversary or not, and put for the house as fast I could. Chains and Freedom: Or, The Life and Adventures of Peter Wheeler, a Colored Man Yet Living. A Slave in Chains, a Sailor on the Deep, and a Sinner at the Cross
Then Theodoric sat down and began to unbrace his adversary's armour; and while he was doing this, Queen Chriemhild came into the hall with a blazing torch, which she thrust into the mouth of one after another of the prostrate warriors, her brothers, to see if they were already dead, and to slay them if they were still living. Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation
By a judicious blow in that spot where the ribs divaricate he could right well tie his adversary into a bow-knot, but this string of white lawn was a most damnable thing. The Place of Honeymoons
The other argument deployed against the adversary politics thesis calls into doubt the relevance of the notion itself.
Rs high payload and stealthiness (the difficulty of detecting its approach) enable it to do extraordinary damage to an adversary's warmaking capacity, at minimum risk to just two crew members per aircraft. Precision Guesswork About The B-2
At its strangest – when weird images of molecules were flying over giant ear trumpets, and you felt a weird empathy with Virus – "my sweet adversary" – the show felt like a crystallisation of the bizarre natural world we all inhabit. Bjork – review
The final compiler and editor, to whom we are indebted for the collection in its present form, undoubtedly found the sweeping scepticism of the poet Agur and the pious protestations of his anonymous adversary, the thesis and the antithesis, inextricably interwoven in the section now known as the thirtieth chapter. The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur
In order to stave off the opponent's attack at the last moment and restore one's position one must keep the moral attitude of initiative so as not to get worsted by the adversary.
Napoleon's previous campaigns relied heavily on the spoils of war to replenish the troops, so he was utterly unprepared for an adversary who would rather destroy his own kingdom than let another take it.
But contention is rashly instituted against the opinion of an adversary, first, when it is not proposed according to the mind and intention of him who is the assertor; Secondly, when it is discussed beyond all due bounds, and its deformity is unseasonably exaggerated; and, lastly, when its refutation is attempted by arguments ill calculated to produce that effect. The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1
Blepharospasm is a cunning, baffling, powerful adversary. Times, Sunday Times
But a randomized version of the procedure can't be outguessed so easily; the adversary can't know where to hide the target because the program doesn't decide where to search until it begins reading random bits.
In 'Uti possidetis' the party in possession at the issue of the interdict was the winner, provided he had not obtained that possession from his adversary by force, or clandestinely, or by permission; whether he had obtained it from some one else in any of these modes was immaterial. The Institutes of Justinian
Effective diabolism shows the existence of Satan, so the corresponding presence of his greater adversary is at least strongly implied.
The effect of adversary politics in Britain is intensified by the rapid turnover of government personnel.
He would not be slow to make his feelings known if his bosses decided to editorialise on air? not least because it would suggest his old adversary Alastair Campbell might have been right all along. Adam Boulton: The pugilist of the airwaves
The pygmy elephant is the smallest of its family, but it still makes for a formidable adversary. Times, Sunday Times
One evening, as I was escaping from a coffee-house, after having drawn my attaghan, without having the courage to face my adversary, I received a blow from his weapon which cleft my turban, and cut deeply into my head. The Pacha of Many Tales
As we have said, television news is in a constant struggle with time, and time is a fierce adversary.
When successfully employed, the threat of force can deter an adversary from embarking upon an unwelcome course of action or coerce an adversary to cease undesirable activities.
The effect of adversary politics in Britain is intensified by the rapid turnover of government personnel.
Recently, the not a few masses of dicast the adversary machine put up membranes, cost and"defend radiation" and"anti-electrostatic" etc. function proposed to query.
When the Prince had been formally announced, he bowed deeply to his adversary before stating his business. THE ANCIENT FUTURE: THE DARK AGE
Three separate elements neutralized advantages held by the larger power over its adversary. America Past and Present
Once there, he expects to be coming up against an old adversary.
His mind was too wine-muddled to think anything through, other than trading hit and miss blows with his equally inebriated adversary. TREASON KEEP
Lookout Keith Olbermann: now that you are more popular than Bill O'Reilly in the cable news Neilson ratings, you must confront an even bigger monster, an even more tenacious adversary, an egomaniacally superior life-species: establishment liberal journalists. Jealous Liberal Journalists Attack Keith Olbermann
Bennett is a political adversary, but he is also a fellow citizen of a democratic state.
In the adversary system, we depend on lawyers to bring cases.
He who can fling forward his legs in a certain way, and move them fast and far, is good at running; he who can grip and hold down is good at wrestling; he who can drive an adversary from his ground with the right blow is a good boxer: he who can do both the last is a good pancratiast, while he who can do all is an ‘all-round’ athlete. Rhetoric
Amendments to the Criminal Procedure law in 1996 introduced adversary elements to the fact-finding process in criminal trials.
My adversary raised and very deliberately drew a bead on me.
Experts speculate that the python could fight its way to the top of the food chain, ousting its native reptile adversary.
In Tartini's time, the Devil personified the spirit of evil, a demon, the ruler of Hell, and the chief adversary of God.
Yet there is that nearly irresistible need for lawyers to smear their adversary, even a grieving widow.
At the head of three hundred followers, that fearless Barbarian immediately sallied from the gates of Ravenna; surprised, and cut in pieces, a considerable body of Goths; reentered the city in triumph; and was permitted to insult his adversary, by the voice of a herald, who publicly declared that the guilt of Alaric had forever excluded him from the friendship and alliance of the emperor. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
He is a cardboard cut-out, not a real adversary.
As in heresiology, polemics sets itself the task of determining the intangible point of dogma, the fundamental and necessary principle that the adversary has neglected, ignored or transgressed; and it denounces this negligence as a moral failing; at the root of the error, it finds passion, desire, interest, a whole series of weaknesses and inadmissible attachments that establish it as culpable. Punknews.org
Every foreign journalist, every adversary, and every ally will be reading the tea leaves to make their own assessment how badly Obama was damaged by his party's loss of political and popular support, and either take it in stride, or dangerously miscalculate. Amb. Marc Ginsberg: The Post Election Foreign Policy Hangover
The third point is that our adversary system is accusatorial.
Thus the discourse of American studies had been inflected from the beginning by the doctrinal ‘doubleness’ of the adversary culture.
That seems to have been the spiteful remark of an adversary; for at least while Churchill was still in politics, the Congress was staffed, and led by men and women of calibre and integrity.
Take for example, the matrix structure, what it does is establish an adversary system, thereby institutionalizing organizational conflict.
It is the long-term corrosive effects of the continuing breakdown in the system and society that ultimately compels an adversary to surrender or to accept terms. Shock and Awe — Achieving Rapid Dominance
He dropped to the floor and swept his adversary's feet clean away.
And if you don't do it, then the enemy gets ahead because every time you have an advantage a counteraction is created by your adversary to negate that advantage and the process starts again.
Ross is a friend as well as an old adversary, and I feel for him.
Lily beetle is a formidable adversary, chomping through leaves and stems. Times, Sunday Times
Direct defense refers to the use of armed forces to thwart an adversary's attempt to capture or destroy possessions such as territory, population, and strategic resources.
But why run I into length to such a poor thing? why push I so weak an adversary? whose first letter is all low malice, and whose next is made up of falsehood and inconsistence, as well as spite and ill-manners! yet I was willing to give you a part of my mind. Clarissa Harlowe
The auto accident is the most absurd of all adversary proceedings.
Satan, to the diabolus (“adversary”), and to daimones and daimonia. DEMONOLOGY
You could now strike your adversary such a blow with your fist on the face as to render him unconscious, or, of course, you could belabor him with your stick if it were suitable for the purpose.
I think he is a worthy advocate of the policy and he is also a worthy adversary for the press.
The adversary procedure followed in a court of law is not appropriate in its investigations.
Some men may have dueled to kill an adversary, but most gentlemen fought duels to demonstrate that they did not fear death at the hands of their social equals.
Producers of the rival big show in town, "Burning Down the House" immediately dismissed Obama's script as more radical agit- prop dramaturgy, but most independent scribes saw it as an old-fashioned sports melodrama featuring a beleaguered coach giving a locker room halftime speech invoking the spirit of his old friend Sputnik while exhorting the team to pull together and defeat the villainous adversary, Doctor Deficit. Will Durst: Boffo Smash or Miserable Flop?
In his quest for savings, Gates faces reflexive pushback from the political right, which condemns any cut in a weapons system as a gain for a prospective adversary like China.
This seasonable supply enabled our hero to stand trial with his adversary, who was nonsuited, and also to mend his external appearance, which of late had not been extremely magnificent. The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
Being apparently sourceless a lot of the time, it can induce all sorts of confusion in an adversary. Times, Sunday Times
You don't fight duels in order to delope, but to kill your adversary. Flashman
He has to pit his wits against an adversary who is cool, clever and cunning.
You could now strike your adversary such a blow with your fist on the face as to render him unconscious, or, of course, you could belabor him with your stick if it were suitable for the purpose.
It's got an adversary system that obscures the truth; trials are run by lawyers and they don't have much interest in truth and justice.
The vessels ran along thus for 15 minutes, gradually coming closer together, and Captain Dickenson put his helm aweather, to run his adversary aboard. The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans
Alternatively they risk becoming the client state of one or other adversary in a high-risk tension area.
Throwing an adversary from the top of a car park is just one of his remorseless acts of violence.
Hellman was repeatedly accused of untruthfulness, most notably by her longtime adversary Mary McCarthy, who announced on US television: "Every word Hellman writes is a lie – including 'and' and 'the'. The scandalous Lillian Hellman
It is his function to persuade with winged words his adversary, the company's local underwriter or "counterman," that the stock of cheap millinery belonging to the Slavonic gentlemen with the unfortunate record of two fires of unknown origin and two opportune failures is even more desirable -- at the rate -- than the large line on the substantial office building which he half exhibits, holding suggestively back. White Ashes
That made her much more formidable an adversary because she didn't have the usual narcissistic vanity.
the wrestler's charge carried him past his adversary
I will face them and show them I am a formidable adversary.
And Paul Marshall, the founder of hedge fund Marshall Wace and a Liberal Democrats donor reckoned Cameron had lost to an old adversary:We allowed ourselves to be totally outmanoeuvred by the French – again. Eurozone crisis: stock markets slide as summit optimism wanes - 12 December 2011
With good reason he calculated that his main adversary was no longer a France now nearing exhaustion, but Britain.
Because they are not directly engaged in hostilities against an adversary, they retain their civilian immunity from attack.
The Romans, who will resolutely overwhelm an adversary with the might of arms, they say Phoenicians are deceitful and sly.
He protested the fish had no more wit, and scarcely more activity, than a black snail; and, influenced by this undue contempt of the adversary, he waited neither for a farther signal, nor a better weapon, nor a more suitable position, but, rising in his energy, hurled his graip with all his force against the unfortunate monster. MacMillan's Reading Books Book V
With his life declared to be hanging by a thread, the fading duelist now urged his erstwhile adversary to flee the taverntaking pains to insist that he had acquitted himself honorablyand even offered his own carriage for the getaway. Excerpt: Wedlock by Wendy Moore
Unlike most rebels, Gandhi did not get ammunition from his adversary.
As a former trade union convenor, Ferguson has always had a developed sense of his own worth financially, but in Edwards he found an implacable adversary.
Except that in this nightmare, it's unarmed boat people who will face the mighty guns of a far superior adversary.
A good deal of sparring took place, when, a favourable opportunity offering, Gulley put in a desperate facer, which Gregson immediately returned, by giving his adversary a severe blow on the side of the head.
He could have taken on the best all-in wrestler and broken his adversary's neck with ease any time. WHISTLER IN THE DARK
I may come to feel in connection with my adversary that my bitterness is or has to be directed against a person.
His business rivals knew they could expect no quarter from such a ruthless adversary.
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