noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
old
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Again, the atmosphere is friendly with everyone recounting the day's activities whilst making new friends and meeting old adversaries .
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The two old adversaries , now both in their early sixties, have never met in person.
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But it will also be needed to pacify old adversaries , and to prevent small crises from becoming big ones.
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The two old adversaries are seeded to meet in Tuesday's final.
■ NOUN
politics
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Gamble argues that the adversary politics thesis over-generalises from a few instances to the whole of economic policy.
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The significant discontinuities elsewhere support the thesis of adversary politics .
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The adversary politics thesis developed by the reformers has also been variously challenged.
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They have been the commonplace stuff of the party political debate that is adversary politics .
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The three main diagnoses are those of government overload, adversary politics , and pluralist stagnation.
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A compatible but independent thesis is that of adversary politics .
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The effect of adversary politics in Britain is intensified by the rapid turnover of government personnel.
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The other argument deployed against the adversary politics thesis calls into doubt the relevance of the notion itself.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Quijano wanted to ensure success against his political adversaries.
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Symes grabbed his adversary by the throat and wrestled him to the ground.
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The peace talks proved that even great adversaries were capable of cooperation.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the same is not true of our potential adversaries.
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By 2015, two populations, composed of very different ethnic groups, faced each other as adversaries across a great divide.
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Like the trained warrior that I was, I knew not to oppose an adversary head-on.
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The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; against them he will thunder in heaven.
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The adversary politics thesis developed by the reformers has also been variously challenged.
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The bipolar adversary process often involves paying little attention to these wider interests.
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The significant discontinuities elsewhere support the thesis of adversary politics.
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Yet there is that nearly irresistible need for lawyers to smear their adversary , even a grieving widow.