Antagonism was confined to the stadium, and ended when the match did.

That point can explain the fact that the country seems overwhelmed by the current events.

Turkey s ancient antagonism toward Russia briefly revived when the Soviet Union imploded.

Now he has antagonized all big businessmen he even refuses to meet them.

If we antagonize Europe s Muslims enough we will push more people into joining the Islamist revolution.

The antagonism between President Mahinda Rajapaksa and the now retired General Sarath Fonseka has been in the making for months.

But that antagonism reflected the personalization of politics achieved by Berlusconi, as well as an institutional feature that he abolished.

This may seem strange, given the antagonism between Romano Prodi and Silvio Berlusconi during the electoral campaign.

And yet, despite this antagonism, loud calls for Germany to assume leadership in Europe can also be heard.

Yet it is facile to say that antagonism to Putin's new course derives simply from adherence to Cold War stereotypes.

But, given China s rising power, such a regional structure is becoming all the more necessary if today s lack of trust is not to devolve into military antagonism.

For most of modern history, the Franco German antagonism the two countries' so called hereditary enmity haunted Europe and the world.

Iraq's mayhem has hardened the antagonism of countries like France and Germany, which led the opposition to the war in the first place.

On the right, Chirac s antagonism toward Sarkozy makes it that another candidate will appear at some point, either Michele Alliot Marie, the defense minister, or Chirac himself.

If European governments today distance themselves from America, as their citizens frequently demand, they will both antagonize and further weaken the US.

The antagonism between the blacks of sub Saharan Africa and the inhabitants of the continent s north remains a reality that impedes the prospect of any union between them.

The problem for the EU is thus to find a mechanism that recognizes the international heft of the three without antagonizing the rest of the Union.

LONDON Ever since Greek Cypriots rejected the United Nations plan to reunite Cyprus in 2004, antagonism has grown between the Greek majority and the Turks in the north of the island.

LONDON 45 45 Ever since Greek Cypriots rejected the United Nations plan to reunite Cyprus in 2004, antagonism has grown between the Greek majority and the Turks in the north of the island.

Indeed, the Georgian war antagonized not only the west, but also China, which has a vital strategic interest in maintaining the post Cold War geo strategic settlement.

Despite the political antagonism between the two nations, the time of rabbits predicted by Silvio Rodríguez inexplicably summed up the emotions of many Cubans, both among those living on the island, and the almost two million scattered in the world for political and economic reasons.

The antagonism that much of the left felt toward the Fifth Republic, which was tailored to fit de Gaulle s outsized figure, faded only in 1981, when François Mitterrand, one of de Gaulle s most vocal opponents, benefited from the power vested in the presidency.