antagonistic

• Between public measures regarded as antagonistic, there is often less real difference in their bearing on the public weal, than there is between the dispute being kept up or being settled either way. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Life and Public Service of General Zachary Taylor, by Abraham Lincoln.
• Then he became antagonistic, and now his army, recruited from bandit elements, was fighting the Bolsheviki. —  My Disillusionment in Russia
• Other critics were upset by what they saw as the inexorability at the heart of Huntington's vision: civilisations were monolithic and antagonistic, and so conflict inevitable. —  PLIGG_Visual_Name - PLIGG_Visual_RSS_All
• The young minds of children were easier to manipulate and the regime were able to brainwash children to such an extent that they would report back to the regime if their own parents were being antagonistic, the regime taught them to believe that they were their family and that their own kin were their enemies. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
• The action of the two sets is necessarily antagonistic, the radiating fibers dilating the pupil and exposing the interior of the eye to view, while the circular fibers contract this opening and shut out the rays of light. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse

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