Being labor lawyers, it hits you where you live. It's like the shoemaker's children. Being a good labor lawyer doesn't mean you're going to have good labor relations. There's no correlation. It's just not good here it's very unsophisticated, it's very adversarial.
Quotes about adversarial (16 Quotes)
It's pretty subtle ... that burden of anxiety off my back. I can focus, I am definitely more creative and I have a space of support around me, whereas before I would just have this adversarial claw on my back.
Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest.
We're in a bad-news cycle now where bad news builds on itself. Bush's press has gone from bad to worse, from critical to adversarial. The media opposition has gone from passive to active.
Some people want to pretend we don't have an adversarial political system, but we do, ... We should not only tolerate it, we should encourage that kind of debate.
To me, every interview, even if you love the artist, needs to be somewhat adversarial. Which doesn't mean you need to attack the person, but you do need to look at it like you're trying to get information that has not been written about before.
The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.
We are here because cooperative relations with China are in the American national interest. Every president for 30 years has come to that conclusion, and a rejection of this agreement would be a vote for an adversarial relationship with the most populous nation of China.
The water game is a pretty adversarial game. When you talk about water going south, it's money.
Captain Hughes of the 10th Precinct would brag that he's not going to speak with club owners because he wants to be adversarial.
Our concern with that change is it sets up an adversarial system. We know there are appraisers who testify for landowners and some for condemning parties. They may see their role differently under this, as an advocate rather than a neutral party serving the court.
Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
This bill that we are unveiling will replace the adversarial blame game with the kind of private sector cooperation that will get this problem solved in the best tradition of American ingenuity.
Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.
We do support the city of Orr's concern for safety, ... But we're still in the research mode here. Just because a law is passed doesn't mean that the local police or other law enforcement are capable of enforcing it. We don't know if we have enforceability yet. We're hoping it's something that the railroad will work out with the city of Orr rather than becoming an adversarial relationship.
They (bankruptcies) take a long time, they waste a lot of money, fees are outrageous and the process is adversarial, ... not going to happen.