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How to use the word antagonistic in a Sentence?

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There are rhetorical questions, there are questions that are being asked to just to be antagonistic … There are questions that are said for informational basis. And there are questions that have a concern of policy, and I don't think this checked any box other than the antagonism. CNN was always going to cover it. They had always covered my brother for better or worse.

Chris Cuomo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I don’t think this is a fad, it is a generational shift in how people think about investing their money, a retail trader will not lean on Wall Street to manage their money and I definitely now see an antagonistic relationship between the old guard (Wall Street) and individual traders who are on the rise.

John Patrick Lee

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

A retail trader will not lean on Wall Street to manage their money and I definitely now see an antagonistic relationship between the old guard (Wall Street) and individual traders who are on the rise.

John Patrick Lee

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

To put deadlines might not be the best idea, this would for me mean that we would be in a very ... antagonistic relationship where basically one side would be resisting and then I as DG would need to be putting deadlines.

Rafael Grossi

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This would for me mean that we would be in a very ... antagonistic relationship where basically one side would be resisting and then I as DG would need to be putting deadlines.

Rafael Grossi

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Trump's comments to the U.N. were very antagonistic toward China. In the last couple of weeks there's been optimism trade would go in a positive direction, it was the tone and the fact he listed out in great detail all the gripes the U.S. has with China.

Chris Zaccarelli

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Nobody gave us a hard time, really. Nobody was antagonistic or anything like that. It wasn't a hostile crowd by any means. They were there for the music, and whatever else was there.

William Ellsworth

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Trade talks have finished without an agreement, of course, it doesn't help that almost as a prelude to the conversation you get tweets that are quite antagonistic.

Justin Onuekwusi

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Of course, it doesn't help that almost as a prelude to the conversation you get tweets that are quite antagonistic.

Justin Onuekwusi

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Although the Atlantic alliance has weathered many crises over its lifetime, I now am concerned that the alliance will not survive Donald Trump, because he isn't arguing with allies about policy. He's questioning the fundamental value of NATO to the United States. This antagonistic approach is generating an unprecedented debate in Europe and in Canada about whether the United States should be treated as friend or foe.

Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Because he isn't arguing with allies about policy. He's questioning the fundamental value of NATO to the United States. This antagonistic approach is generating an unprecedented debate in Europe and in Canada about whether the United States should be treated as friend or foe.

Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

It seems a little more antagonistic, so that part has changed a little bit, but it's not like this was' Leave it to Beaver,'' Mayberry R.F.D.,'' The Donna Reed Show,' it was never a Pollyanna, Mary Poppins place. It was always rough and tumble politics.

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

Found on CNN
5 years ago

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

Emile Coue

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

Rollo May

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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