How To Use Antagonize In A Sentence
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I fully admit I have gone out of my way on more than one occasion to needle and to antagonize him.
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Apart from anything else, we're not living under a military regime - it just antagonises the uncommitted middle ground, who are the very people we want to win over.
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We don't want to antagonise him, but he's got to appreciate the facts.
The Sun
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He had already become hostile and she didn't want to antagonize him further.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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Selenium appears to antagonize cadmium, especially in acute exposures.
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It's a very delicate situation and I've no wish to antagonize him.
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Cytokinins may reduce the effect of sugars on acclimation processes in leaves, as elevated cytokinins enhance greening and leaf protein levels, and antagonize senescence responses.
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In his excitement, Bryza seemed to have forgotten that his irresponsible statements and actions, during his stunt as U.S. negotiator on the Karabagh (Artsakh) conflict, had antagonized some of his Washington colleagues and many others in the Caucasus.
Harut Sassounian: Obama Can Now Replace Bryza With a New Nominee as Ambassador to Azerbaijan
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For example, oxytocin's calming effects are enhanced by estrogen, but antagonized by androgen, she notes.
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But this libertarian view antagonizes both the diversitarians and the majoritarians more than anything, more even than they antagonize each other.
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Till then, find someone else you like reading, and stop reading my blog if it antagonizes you.
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She had no wish to antagonize this man who might be of use to her, and she sensed the change in him almost before he was aware of it.
A WORM OF DOUBT
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Internationally administered, they would not take up any country's space or antagonise local communities.
Times, Sunday Times
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Diane didn't want to antagonize Ed, because sitting in the car next to him felt good.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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It is unwise of Walcott to antagonise Fabio Capello with the account in his book of the severity of life with England while he is still in the squad.
Amid the gloom, much to cheer in Arsenal's scrambled win over Udinese | Kevin McCarra
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This pressor effect of atropine appeared to be unrelated to the sympathetic mechanism, as it was neither potentiated by cocaine nor antagonized by tolazoline.
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The biggest drawback to this plan is that it will antagonize opponents of outsourcing.
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He liked his neighbour and didn't want to antagonize him.
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Of course it might be impolitic to antagonize these groups.
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The Museum has antagonised rivals by outbidding them for the world's greatest art treasures.
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That one was so outrageous that it antagonized the entire civilized world, and undoubtedly contributed to the Europeans' about-face on lifting military sanctions against China.
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We then added a subhypnotic dose of barbital and found that the combined action of this drug and nitrous oxide could be antagonized, and the increase in partial pressure of nitrous oxide needed to inhibit the righting reflex could be used as a measure of pentylenetetrazol action.
Arvid Carlsson - Autobiography
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But he quickly antagonises local people who want the land to be owned and used for the community's benefit.
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We didn't go out of our way to antagonise him, indeed we tried to avoid all contact.
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Both reactions would, of course, antagonise my grandmother, only making her more paranoid.
Johann Hari: This Was My Grandmother. The Way She Was Treated in the Last Ten Years of Her Life Should Be A Scandal
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He has continually ‘put himself about’ in a way which is bound to alienate colleagues and antagonise the general public.
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But you've got to be careful not to antagonise the away fans.
The Sun
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Peggy antagonises Pat by taking her clean sheets to the launderette to be rewashed.
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The use of the opiate antagonist, naltrexone in the treatment of autism is reasonable since it antagonizes endogenous opiate receptor activity.
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It was totally unprovoked - we had not done anything to antagonise them at all.
The Sun
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The slogans antagonized his customers and often got him into ideological hot water.
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Marc Lièvremont may have thought he was being clever when he described England as "an insular country" disliked by all their opponents but, if so, he has picked a desperately risky week to antagonise les rosbifs.
Six Nations 2011: England brush off taunts from France
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Despite Alan Pardew's side sitting unbeaten in third place in the Premier League, the announcement looks set to antagonise relations between the board and the fans, which had been improving thanks to the team's performances.
Newcastle risk fan fury with St James' Park rebranding
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That one was so outrageous that it antagonized the entire civilized world, and undoubtedly contributed to the Europeans' about-face on lifting military sanctions against China.
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The use of neostigmine to antagonise neuromuscular blockade may increase bowel motility and result in a higher rate of anastomotic leakage.
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Not how will you aggravate him, challenge him, dare him, antagonize him, and make an enemy out of him.
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Conclusions:This result indicated that some dose of Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Zinc agent and Dimercaptopropanol could markedly antagonize on lipid peroxidation of the mice exposed to Arsenic.
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Ziprasidone may antagonize the effects of levodopa and dopamine agonists.
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Twenty minutes after a single bolus dose, it may be unnecessary to antagonize the block when the train-of-four has returned to normal and fade is not present to a tetanic stimulus.
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I absolve him - though I would not do the same for all his cabinet colleagues - of a desire not to antagonise the voters to whom the Conservative advertisement was meant to appeal.
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You don't want to antagonize rich and powerful Emissaries, especially not on their own ship in deep space.
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Smartphones have given gangs an 'almost unlimited opportunity' to antagonise each other, she added.
The Sun
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The brusque style of Washington has managed to antagonize its best friends by means of anachronistic ukases and its treatment of allies as unruly children.
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Honey bees rarely swarm away from the hive and only sting if they are antagonised.
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In these areas they exercised civil control, did not allow entry to non-military persons without permission, and in various ways antagonized the inhabitants.
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She antagonised her civil servants, infuriated her leaders, insulted colleagues.
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Why go out of the way to offend and antagonize religious people?
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I remain unconvinced that the occupation forces are really helping the situation, instead of continuing to antagonize large sections of the people.
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My friends are down from Cambridge and I don't want you to antagonize them.
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The Museum has antagonised rivals by outbidding them for the world's greatest art treasures.
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This florid and fulsome eulogy was written by that singular being who could thus flatter, and almost apotheosize, the inventor in public, while in secret he was doing everything to thwart him, and who never, as long as he lived, ceased to antagonize him, and later accused him of having claimed the credit of an invention all the essentials of which were invented by others.
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This is effective not because it lowers serum potassium concentration but because it directly antagonizes the membrane depolarizing effect of hyperkalemia.
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He added that the update 'looked almost deliberately designed to antagonise its audience'.
Times, Sunday Times
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For those people who already have substantial hearing loss, researchers are also optimizing compounds that antagonize specific cell cycle proteins resulting in new cell division or proliferation.
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Its military campaigns and parades served only to antagonise the nationalists.
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They insisted on trying to antagonise me.
The Sun
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But will the government dare concrete over the region to help key workers get a foot on the housing ladder when this would be sure to antagonise Nimby voters in marginal constituencies?
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He said it would 'antagonise local people and business owners'.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's not a smart move to gratuitously antagonise a welterweight boxing champ.
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Many of my friends disliked the film intensely - even if they had admired it on some nebulous level, they were antagonized and revolted, irritated and unappreciative.
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Smooth magazine she is "half-Italian and half Cape Verdean," and that she was routinely "antagonized" by kids at school over her mixed race.
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NO and PGI 2 may antagonize the biological action of ET 1 during endotoxemia.
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He had already become hostile and she didn't want to antagonize him further.
THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
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They were clearly the antagonizers, and Mr. Frank was kind of minding his own business.
The Monster That Ate Congress
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Adding spironoloactone to fur - vasoconstrictor can cause necrosis because of the osemide (frusemide) provides no extra diuresis, but absence of collateral circulation. does antagonize the potassium loss that occurs when the latter drug is used alone.
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In Athens she will wear a headscarf and tracksuit pants when she runs; she has no wish to provoke or antagonise.
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I personally don't think we should be given more powers because it would just antagonise people.
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She decided that she did not want to antagonize Cardoni; she did not want him thinking about her at all.
WILD JUSTICE
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He was less aggressive today but we played against a team that also wanted just to play football and not antagonise him.
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We then added a subhypnotic dose of barbital and found that the combined action of this drug and nitrous oxide could be antagonized, and the increase in partial pressure of nitrous oxide needed to inhibit the righting reflex could be used as a measure of pentylenetetrazol action.
Arvid Carlsson - Autobiography
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Controversial blogs are shut down, and chatroom moderators kick out participants who post comments likely to antagonise the Communist party.
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But his critics say he has needlessly antagonized professors with his autocratic style.
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The BBC, like a well-kicked hound, does not in its post-Hutton malaise wish to antagonise politicians.
BBC is 'confusing cause and effect' in its Israeli coverage
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His antimilitarism and acid comments on ‘the military mind’ will probably antagonize many present-day soldiers.
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Again, telling porkies about your car will do nothing but antagonize the salesperson and once again you will find yourself being screwed over.
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Don't antagonize your boss
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If microfilaments antagonize microtubules, this uneven distribution of microfilaments should affect microtubule morphology.
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It would be dangerous to antagonize him.
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She had no wish to antagonize this man who might be of use to her, and she sensed the change in him almost before he was aware of it.
A WORM OF DOUBT
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Jose Manuel Barroso's desire for a second term prevents him from doing anything to antagonise the French government.
Archive 2009-05-01
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Diane didn't want to antagonize Ed, because sitting in the car next to him felt good.
A MEANS TO EVIL
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Both coalition parties are strongly unionist but they took the view that being forceful in their opposition to independence would antagonise Scottish voters and play into Salmond's hands.
Coalition comes out fighting against 'catastrophic' Scottish independence
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They possess a remarkable capacity to antagonise and alienate.
Times, Sunday Times
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The other two cats aren't openly hostile to her, but they seem to want to antagonize her.
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As much as it sucks (and I am not looking to antagonise you with this) Microsoft will always try and better things for the users in general, which sometimes comes at the cost of the few.
The Windows 8 Concept Desktop | Lifehacker Australia
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And you've only antagonized terrorists and exponentially increased their numbers by being there.
CNN Poll: Afghanistan War opposition at all-time high
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Does Barney Ronay's lack of integrity mean that he has to write articles that are purely there to antagonise and attract comments?
Has Kenny Dalglish taken Liverpool as far as he can?| Barney Ronay
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Cardinal Connell antagonised Anglicans on several occasions with his remarks about intercommunion and the Church of Ireland, but relationships are likely to improve with Martin at the helm.
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… if the concept of Davis and Walsh was tenable, the morphine antagonists nalorphine, naloxone, and so forth would antagonize short-term alcohol intoxication as they do specifically for morphine-like drugs.12
Alcohol and The Addictive Brain
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When the heat became intolerable, he tried to publicly put the blame back on the Legislature, and, as you noted, his former allies like Jim Tucker felt "antagonized".
Your Right Hand Thief
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Another approach is using drugs to antagonise the peripheral effects of opioids so that bowel dysfunction is reversed, speeding discharge from hospital.
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The set-up is horror-film heaven - three Norwegian filmmakers on a road trip through Louisiana stop to take in the local colour and end up being antagonized by a madwoman.
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An insensitive rising power can all too easily make enemies and antagonise new friends.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is no clinically tested antidote available to antagonize the psychotomimetic symptomatology induced by PCP.
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Though a former sugar beet negotiator for the NFU, she even managed to antagonise a group which should be loyal backers - farmers - when she suggested in January that direct subsidy payments should be abolished.
Forestry sell-off: public and political opposition forced U-turn
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She decided that she did not want to antagonize Cardoni; she did not want him thinking about her at all.
WILD JUSTICE
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The meridional and circular muscles antagonize the radial muscles.
