Adversary
One who is turned against another or others with a design to oppose or resist them; a member of an opposing or hostile party; an opponent; an antagonist; an enemy; a foe.
Opposed; opposite; adverse; antagonistic.
Having an opposing party; not unopposed; as, an adversary suit.
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Adversary Quotations
Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Ambrose Bierce
In football you have an adversary; in cinema that adversary is yourself.
Eric Cantona
The strategic adversary is fascism... the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us.
Michel Foucault
Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
Samuel Johnson
We have been conditioned to see the passing of time as an adversary.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Mere access to the courthouse doors does not by itself assure a proper functioning of the adversary process.
Thurgood Marshall
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.
Adolf Hitler
Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.
Martin Heidegger
Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.
Milan Kundera
You have to work more than your adversary.
Jurgen Klinsmann
Adversary Translations
adversary in Dutch is tegenstander
adversary in French is adversaire
adversary in German is Gegner, Gegnern
adversary in Norwegian is motstander
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