Word: antagonistic
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...option would be a flashback to 1981 and the Israeli air strikes on Osirak, Saddam’s best shot at nuclear proliferation. The protagonist for such move could be not only the over-stretched U.S., but also Israel, the only nuclear power of the region, and a indefatigable antagonist of Teheran. Yet, such a move would assure full-fledged war with the theocracy, and the latter’s main power lies not in Shehab-3 missiles that can reach Jerusalem, but in the power it has over oil prices, everyone’s Achilles’ heel. Furthermore...
...rider race. Teter, 18, and defending X-Games champ Gretchen Bleiler, 24, fuel the most intense rivalry in the sport. Both can land the top women's move, the 900 (two-and-a-half spins in mid-air), with ease. And they do it while eyeing their antagonist. "We'll be like hanging out at the top, and I'll say, like, 'So you're going to push me tonight?'? says Teter, who is friends with Bleiler off the pipe. "And she'll be like, 'Yeah, I'm going to push you, you going to push...
...school only 20 minutes away from Seth’s desired destination. Convenient, no?Taylor encouraged Summer to do so, after the two had a heart-to-heart. Sadly, I think their final interaction in this episode signaled the fact that Taylor will no longer be an antagonist for the S-S twosome. For me, this fact is disappointing. “The OC” is more fun when there are villains around. Let’s see…we’ve lost: Luke, Oliver, Julie (the uber-bitch version), Caleb, Trey, and Jeri Ryan?...
...accomplish is to get his Prime Minister, Dominique de Villepin, into position to succeed him as President. That would bar the door to Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, who was once close to Chirac but is now the most popular man of the right and the President's toughest antagonist. So Chirac's potential to be a nuisance remains imposing. But his political influence can now only be exercised to benefit or to harm others, not himself. He keeps his throne, but the scepter of real power is already slipping from his hand...
...couldn’t indulge in what he was like at home,” Strathairn explains. He doesn’t even get to play against a human foil—McCarthy, Murrow’s main antagonist, appears only in archival footage of his clownishly fascistic Congressional hearings...