| But what surprised me most about the meeting was a general agreement that the biggest turn-off was the adversarial nature of the campaigning. |
| It was like a prosecutor and a defense lawyer, and it was kind of this adversarial process. |
| Williams insisted there had been no adversarial relationship between the ministry and the nurses. |
| Britain could be forced to give up its adversarial court system in favour of the inquisitorial style favoured in much of continental Europe. |
| Families engaged in contentious, highly adversarial, and prolonged conflict before and during divorce often remain embattled afterward as well. |
| The frontier mentality and adversarial roles are being replaced with new models of sustainability. |
