Much depends on his adversary in the second round.

But in football, the elimination of an adversary is always temporary.

Should it be treated as a difficult partner or a strategic adversary?

The weaker adversary wins by leveraging the power of the stronger against itself.

First, how do you reach an accommodation with a regime that seemingly needs you as an adversary?

By the end of the 1990s a majority of Chinese citizens regarded America as their primary adversary.

If you follow most East Europeans, the United Kingdom and the Bush administration, the answer is strategic adversary.

It is like jiu jitsu the weaker adversary wins by leveraging the power of the stronger against itself.

If you follow most East Europeans, the United Kingdom and the Bush administration, the answer is strategic adversary.

A caricature of a despot, he personifies the type of odious adversary whom all democrats want to see defeated.

What in the 1950 s had seemingly been a culture of contentment was transformed into what Podhoretz called an adversary culture.

The leaks provoked such fiery debate because the US led fight against jihadism had suddenly run into an unexpected adversary truth.

But the adversary facing the NATO alliance today is much more difficult to grasp and to fathom than before, though its sources are terribly familiar.

War implies armies and command structures that can be recognized, if not clearly known in any case, war entails a military confrontation with an identifiable adversary .

Such an approach will require that each side exercise broad restraint and live with the ambiguity of working with a strong adversary to manage profound differences.

The geography of the exercises, and the offensive nature of the tasks undertaken, leaves little doubt that Russia was cast in the role of potential adversary.

At such a level, overconfidence is generally the product of an excessive assessment of one s capabilities and an insufficient appreciation of the capabilities of one s adversary.

Such an approach will require that each side exercise broad restraint and live with the ambiguity of working with a strong adversary to manage profound differences.

In this sense, Trump looks to us like an unfriendly, hostile leader a hostile leader who is our potential adversary and possibly one of Putin s allies.

Vietnamese deaths and casualties outnumbered American deaths and casualties by perhaps 20 to one, but the US still could not subdue the nationalist adversary that they faced.

The US has found a new empire of evil in terrorist states and organizations Europe has found a new adversary who helps it integrate in the United States.

A relationship that started on both sides as essentially a strategic design to constrain a common adversary has evolved over the decades into a pillar of the international system...

One of the techniques involves an adversary posing as a human rights organization (such as United for Iran) or US immigration services and sending email messages containing embedded malware.

Decline In January 1889, he ran as a deputy for Paris, and, after an intense campaign, took the seat with 244,000 votes against the 160,000 of his main adversary.

What led Barack Obama to tap his former adversary, Hillary Clinton, to serve as his Secretary of State, the face and voice of his foreign policy, his emissary to the world?

Indeed, the shadows of militarism that have appeared over the Chávez regime may well have unnerved a majority of Venezuelans, who wonder who the next adversary to be pursued will be.

A caricature of a despot, he personifies the type of odious adversary whom all democrats want to see defeated. His behavior has been abominable for decades and not only towards his people.

It works not by sheer destruction, but rather by dramatizing atrocious acts against civilians. It is like jiu jitsu the weaker adversary wins by leveraging the power of the stronger against itself.

In this case, Berlusconi s forces could ally themselves with Pier Ferdinando Casini s centrist Catholic party, or work to form a coalition with their center left adversary, the Democratic Party, led by Walter Veltroni.

Your measures are barely containment rules to appease Marco Rubio your presidential campaign adversary who ridiculed you on several occasions, not because he's especially brilliant, but because it's so easy to mock you.

At the same time, France has given a strong mandate to its new president, Nicolas Sarkozy, who is without question the most formidable political adversary the ECB has had to face in its brief history.

Gradually the Bank came to be perceived, at least in many quarters, as a partner in the joint quest for growth and poverty reduction, not an adversary attempting to promote a Western economic agenda or ideology.

Leading 19 th Century American thinkers and even trade unionists spoke of a harmony of interests between labor and capital, and workers and managers continue to view each other more as a partner than an adversary.

On Sunday, Nov. 13, Milov spoke to the online project Moscow Activist, explaining his disappointment with the U.S. election and his fear that Russia s democratic opposition may have lost an important ally while gaining a dangerous adversary.

It is as if, paradoxically, Israelis had internalized the concept of temporary truce advocated by their Hamas adversary, and had given up the goal of peace through a two state solution that they once pursued with the Palestinian Authority.

At one point, the debate moderator even started depicting Iran as a threatening adversary to the United States, alluding to the 15 July nuclear deal as something that could still go awry and allow for the development of Iranian nuclear weapons.

With the end of the Cold War, China had two options concerning India to regard it as a natural ally, together with Russia, in building up an alternative to American dominance in the region, or to identify it as a potential adversary.

Vietnamese deaths and casualties outnumbered American deaths and casualties by perhaps 20 to one, but the US still could not subdue the nationalist adversary that they faced. The US could bomb Vietnam s cities to rubble, as it can Iraq s cities, but this solves nothing, claims vast numbers of innocent lives, and confirms the view of Americans as occupiers.