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  • In golf, a player can step and mar the line of his adversary's putt. A player can also hit his adversary or his caddie intentionally with his ball and claim the hole - but it isn't usually done.

    Golf  
  • Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.

    Chinua Achebe (1989). “Hopes and impediments: selected essays”, Doubleday, [1989]
  • And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.

    William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Edward Capell, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.410
  • The art of leadership . . . consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention. . . . The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belong to one category.

    People  
    Adolf Hitler, General Press (2016). “Mein Kampf: (My Struggle)”, p.105, GENERAL PRESS
  • We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary.

  • Go, therefore, to meet the foe with two objects before you, either victory or death. For men animated by such a spirit must always overcome their adversaries, since they go into battle ready to throw away their lives.

    Military   Men  
  • Most women have all other women as adversaries; most men have all other men as their allies.

    Men  
    Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”
  • Conscience is called the adversary, because it always opposes our evil will; it reminds us of what we ought to do but do not, and condemns us if we do something we ought not.

  • [C]reationists [and] other religious enthusiasts [are], in many parts of the world ..., the most dangerous adversaries of science.

  • There was no reason to label us as anti-Semitic. No reason at all. I do not know one person in the National Front who committed even the most minor hostile act against a Jewish person or Jewish property. As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior. There just are people, organizations, that need an adversary and they want the public to believe that this adversary is dangerous.

    Believe   People  
    "The veil? It protects us from ugly women" by Adar Primor, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2002.
  • Ho Chi Minh was well aware that the enemy possessed more firepower than did his own forces, and sought to use what he viewed as the superior political and moral position of his own revolutionary movement as a trump card to defeat a well-armed adversary. These ideas were originally generated during his early years as a revolutionary in the 1920s and 1930s, and continued to influence his recommendations in the wars against the French (1946-1954) and the United States (1959-1965).

    Source: www.sonshi.com
  • If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority not be liable to the same reproach? Men are not apt to change their character by agglomeration; nor does their patience in the presence of obstacles increase with the consciousness of their strength. And for these reasons I can never willingly invest any number of my fellow creatures with that unlimited authority which I should refuse to any one of them.

    Men  
    Alexis de Tocqueville, John Canfield Spencer (1854). “American Institutions and Their Influence”, p.260
  • Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.

  • Why seeketh thou revenge, O man! with what purpose is it that thou pursuest it? Thinkest thou to pain thine adversary by it? Know that thou thyself feelest its greatest torments.

    Pain   Revenge   Men  
  • I believe that sitting naked across from your adversary in a steam room makes negotiations more productive.

    Believe  
  • Being a patriot doesn’t mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country, knowing when to protect your Constitution, knowing when to protect your countrymen, from the violations of and encroachments of adversaries. And those adversaries don’t have to be foreign countries.

    "Edward Snowden's interview: 10 things we learned" by Catherine E. Shoichet, www.cnn.com. May 29, 2014.
  • China is a rising adversary. So one of the things we have to do if we want China's support is to push back on China.

    5th Republican debate transcript, annotated: Who said what and what it meant, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2015.
  • That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.

    Home  
    First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009
  • It is wrong to follow the advice of an adversary; nevertheless it is right to hear it, that you may do the contrary; and this is the essence of good policy.

  • But since the end of the 1970s, at the beginning of the revolution in Iran under Khomenei, we have experienced a politicization of Islam. From the beginning, it had a primary adversary: the emancipation of women. With more men now coming to us from this cultural sphere, and some additionally brutalized by civil wars, this is a problem. We cannot simply ignore it.

    Men  
    Source: www.spiegel.de
  • We cannot hope to control what we do not understand, nor to confront our adversary, war, with our eyes averted.

    Carl Mydans, Shelley Smith Mydans (1968). “The violent peace”
  • Anarchy is a word that comes from the Greek, and signifies, strictly speaking, "without government": the state of a people without any constituted authority. Before such an organization had begun to be considered possible and desirable by a whole class of thinkers, so as to be taken as the aim of a movement (which has now become one of the most important factors in modern social warfare), the word "anarchy" was used universally in the sense of disorder and confusion, and it is still adopted in that sense by the ignorant and by adversaries interested in distorting the truth.

    "Anarchy". Pamphlet by Errico Malatesta, www.marxists.org. 1891.
  • As for the enemies of freedom, those who are potential adversaries, they will be reminded that peace is the highest aspiration of the American people. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will not surrender for it - now or ever.

    America   People  
    First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981
  • I think I have made it clear that I never intended to make enemies. But in an age when anti-foreign sentiment was running high, it was unavoidable that in my position as an advocate of open intercourse and free adoption of Western culture, I should make some adversaries.

    Yukichi Fukuzawa, Eiichi Kiyooka (1966). “The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa”, p.225, Columbia University Press
  • The ideas of theologians are refuted by their adversaries, the ideas of scientists are refuted by their followers.

    Peter Gay (1970). “The Bridge of Criticism; Dialogues Among Lucian, Erasmus, and Voltaire on the Enlightenment: --on History and Hope, Imagination and Reason, Constraint and Freedom--and on Its Meaning for Our Time”
  • No wonder nobody around the world is nervous about America anymore. No wonder we're not intimidating our adversaries and they're running around wild in the world, because they know we're not investing in our defense anymore. We need to make or military strong, not to wage war, but to avoid war and to bring peace and stability in the world.

    "Shields and Gerson on GOP’s Patriot Act rift, Islamic State’s victories". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. May 22, 2015.
  • As parents it is well to be aware of the tendency to equate energetic activity with contest. Our children's worth does not dependon their ability to trounce one another. And surely we can find ways of frolicking and being healthy and active together in some joyful, free way that is not an adversary relationship.

    Polly Berrien Berends (1987). “Whole child, whole parent”, HarperCollins Publishers
  • One of the surest ways of forming good combinations in war would be to order movements only after obtaining perfect information of the enemy's proceedings. In fact, how can any man say what he should do himself; if he is ignorant what his adversary is about?

    Men   Order  
    Antoine-Henri Jomini (2012). “The Art of War”, p.245, Courier Corporation
  • I think cyber security, cyber warfare will be one of the biggest challenges facing the next president, because clearly we're facing at this point two different kinds of adversaries. There are the independent hacking groups that do it mostly for commercial reasons to try to steal information that they can use to make money.

    "2016 Presidential Debates", TV Mini-Series (2016– ). "Episode #1.1", 2016.
  • As a work progresses, its power to elicit and dictate response mounts. There seems to be an optimum moment when this power is at its greatest which just precedes the point where 'elicit' is no longer apt usage. 'Dictates' is the word for this condition and tyranny is the adversary.

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