adversarial
ਵਿਰੋਧੀ
definition
adjective
industry and government had an adversarial relationship
involving or characterized by conflict or opposition.
example
Being 'adversarial' is not about creating enemies or escalating hostilities, but is a way to develop the dynamic conditions from which people learn to respect each other.
The thing about questions like this is that they presuppose an 'adversarial' relationship with clients, and that's so not the case with me.
This is an 'adversarial' relationship both ways, in which the media control more weapons of destruction than any minister, and use them with reckless passion or amusement, whether to make a headline or dismantle a career.
Creating an 'adversarial' relationship with the listener is a mistake.
Williams insisted there had been no 'adversarial' relationship between the ministry and the nurses.
We have an 'adversarial' system where evidence needs to be tested under cross-examination, so if we're going to put somebody behind bars, you need to establish charges beyond reasonable doubt.
However, calling attention to the basic differences between the two fields does not mean they are opposites, nor necessarily 'adversarial' in relationship.
‘This issue needs to be looked at given the 'adversarial' nature of compensation claims,’ Dr Reilly said.
This is not good for the health of our democracy, since it often casts civil society in an 'adversarial' relationship to the State.
With shared goals, there is less reason for conflict or 'adversarial' relationships.
It seems to me, one ought to be looking at these central authorities as something other than the 'adversarial' party.
The organization is intended to be inquisitorial, as opposed to 'adversarial' .
The only beneficiary of the 'adversarial' relationship imposed on religion and science two hundred years ago has been meaninglessness.
Families engaged in contentious, highly 'adversarial' , and prolonged conflict before and during divorce often remain embattled afterward as well.
We have an 'adversarial' relationship with them.
She has obviously had an 'adversarial' relationship with the media for a long time.
It has never had an 'adversarial' relationship with the government.
The Convention drew up a list of principles to guide the Parliament, including the aim to move away from the 'adversarial' nature of Westminster and towards a model based on power-sharing and public participation.
But what surprised me most about the meeting was a general agreement that the biggest turn-off was the 'adversarial' nature of the campaigning.
That is, only a dominant group finds it advantageous to settle conflicts in an 'adversarial' way.
In an 'adversarial' system of justice, however, judges are expected to crib from the arguments, ideas, and research of the adversaries.
If the parties fail to achieve a settlement through the collaborative law approach, the parties may then pursue 'adversarial' court proceedings.
I wouldn't call it an 'adversarial' relationship.
The inquiry we are conducting is inquisitorial, and it is not, by character or nature, 'adversarial' .
They have a much more 'adversarial' relationship with government than we do.
In this tradition, a single judge both investigates and decides a case without benefit of an 'adversarial' trial.
But it is one thing to air such differences in a framework of constructive give-and-take and another to escalate differences of opinion into an 'adversarial' relationship.
Such is the nature of our 'adversarial' democratic structures.
I think there is an 'adversarial' relationship within the sports journalism business.
In the 'adversarial' system at the beginning of trial proceedings the court asks the defendant whether he pleads guilty or not guilty.
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