Antagonisms

They agitated for the abolition of citizenship or nationality to address, in their view, antagonisms between and among people.

He saw representative democracy as a disaster: as giving political expression to the antagonistic interests in civil society but without overcoming these antagonisms.

But it has also come from the secular nationalist CHP, which has promised to move past old antagonisms while candidate Muharrem Ince has sought to play up his religious credentials.

During political crises, the antagonisms that crisscross everyday life get harder to ignore.

Yet comparisons with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization may only serve to highlight the regional antagonisms that have put paid to many such attempted alliances before.

Democracy's role is to make visible and challenge those relations by allowing for difference, dissent and antagonisms in decision making processes.

He saw western Europe as torn by antagonisms engendered by economic rivalry and commercial selfishness.

Jefferson acted with restraint as these antagonisms mounted, weighing public support for retaliation.

Partly due to increasing antagonisms between the groups, Blur and Oasis ultimately decided to release their new singles on the same day, an event the NME called "The British Heavyweight Championship".

The bands had initially praised each other but over the course of the year antagonisms between the two increased.

The contests also hardened the antagonisms between the candidates, and cut deeper divisions within the electorate.

The situation was exacerbated by land claims, paramilitary violence and ethnic antagonisms on all sides.

This Gladstonian concept of a harmonious Concert of Europe was opposed to and ultimately defeated by the Germans with a Bismarckian system of manipulated alliances and antagonisms.

While certain types of music suggested different racial or class origins, samba dissipated social antagonisms and helped unify a society that varied in its origins, appearance, and ways of living and thinking.