Antagonist Sentence Examples

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  • It is not easy to determine the antagonist he had in view.

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  • In his youth he was an antagonist of Mahomet.

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  • It is difficult to write an interesting story without an antagonist or conflict.

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  • Ivan was also unfortunate in having for his chief antagonist Stephen Bathory, one of the greatest captains of the age.

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  • I was especially nervous about my nexttennis match as I was facing my biggestantagonist.

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  • One strong antagonist to Moawiya remained, in the person of Ziyad.

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  • He is best known as a distinguished antagonist of Martin Luther, against whom he wrote a good deal.

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  • At the beginning of the year 1701 he was sent into Italy once more to oppose his old antagonist Catinat.

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  • When disturbed it will attack man, and it is a dangerous antagonist, for it always strikes at the face.

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  • His foe was a worthy antagonist.

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  • Sarah was competitive with another student, who became herantagonist all the way through high school.

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  • Cromwell determined to turn his antagonist's position.

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  • His unrivalled and various learning, his dialectical expertness, and his massive judgment, rendered him a formidable antagonist; but the respect entertained for him by his opponents was chiefly aroused by his recognized love of truth and superiority to personal considerations.

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  • If somewhat severe and irritable, he was at the same time scrupulously just, truthful, and steadfast; he never deserted a friend or took an unfair advantage of an antagonist; and on befitting occasions he could be cheerful and even facetious among his intimates.

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  • The antagonist of this new novel is one of the most twisted, malevolent villians I've ever read about.

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  • But Leslie descended the hill to complete his triumph, and Cromwell immediately observed the disadvantages of his antagonist's new position, cramped by the hill behind and separated from his left wing.

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  • It is a physiological antagonist of chloral hydrate, morphine and physostigmine, and may be given in poisoning by these drugs.

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  • The society of Paris was peculiarly ready to receive a great philosopher and historian, especially if he were known to be an avowed antagonist of religion, and Hume made valuable friendships, especially with D'Alembert and Turgot, the latter of whom profited much by Hume's economical essays.

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  • Gibbon, describing his first stay at Lausanne (1752-1755), writes in his Autobiography, "the logic of de Crousaz had prepared me to engage with his master Locke and his antagonist Bayle."

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  • Atomic atheism is by far the more important, if only because Hobbes, the great antagonist whom Cudworth always has in view, is supposed to have held it.

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  • Salman (under Sultan Ibrahim, 1059 1099) had successfully continued, reached its perfection in the famous group of panegyrists who gathered in the first half of the 6th century of the Hegira round the throne of Sultan Sinjar, and partly also round that of his great antagonist, Atsiz, shah of Khwarizm.

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  • Almost all the Mario games that require a Princess Peach rescue has either feature Bowser or his son, Bowser Jr., as the main antagonist.

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  • A Gemini can go from being a delightful companion to a moody antagonist in very short period of time.

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  • Joubert and Moreau were quickly compelled to give battle by their great antagonist Suvorov.

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  • When he had thus disposed of the " Paralogisms " of his more formidable antagonist in the first five lessons, he ended with a lesson on " Manners " to the two professors together, and set himself gravely at the close to show that he too could be abusive.

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  • The Reformation, inspired by the same energy of resuscitated life as the Renaissance, assisted by the same engines of the printing-press and paper, using the same apparatus of scholarship, criticism, literary skill, being in truth another manifestation of the same world-movement under a diverse form, now posed itself as an irreconcilable antagonist to Renaissance Italy.

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  • The attorney-generalship had fallen vacant and Bacon became a candidate for the office, his most formidable rival being his life-long antagonist, Edward Coke, who was then solicitor.

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  • His principal antagonist was John Knox; there were several tussles between them, the most famous, perhaps, being the one in the general assembly of 1564, and on the whole Maitland held his own against the preachers.

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  • Prince Eugene had only thirty thousand men; but his antagonist the duke of Orleans, though full of zeal and courage, wanted experience, and Marshal Marsin, his adlatus, held powers from Louis XIV.

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  • His antagonist in public disputations was the Calvinist leader, Peter Juhasz (Melius); his supporter was Blandrata.

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  • His first antagonist on this head was Albert Pighius, a Romanist, who, resuming the controversy between Erasmus and Luther on the freedom of the will, violently attacked Calvin for the views he had expressed on that subject.

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  • In military ability the prince of Parma was inferior to none of his contemporaries, as a skilful diplomatist he was the match even of his great antagonist William the Silent, and, like most of the leading statesmen of his day, was unscrupulous as to the means he employed so long as he achieved his ends.

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  • Dolokhov walked slowly without raising his pistol, looking intently with his bright, sparkling blue eyes into his antagonist's face.

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  • Gaara started out as an antagonist but changes through the series into one of the good guys.

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  • Deva Pein (sometimes spelled Pain) is an antagonist in the Naruto manga and anime series.

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  • Sonic must find these before Dr. Robotnik in order to fully defeat the antagonist.

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  • Dr. Ivo Robotnik is the antagonist of the Sonic games and usually the archenemy of Sonic.

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  • In this way, these antagonist muscles are kept from resisting one another.

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  • Some western films will feature Native Americans in a positive light, while others will portray them as the main antagonist force in the movie.

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  • Disagreements, which are frequent, are usually settled in conference, and in these the Senate is apt to get the better of its antagonist.

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  • Thus a shoot will grow more vigorously whilst waving in the air than when nailed close to the wall; consequently a weak shoot should be left free, whilst its stronger antagonist should be restrained; and a luxuriant shoot may be retarded for some time by having its tender extremity pinched off to allow a weaker shoot to overtake it.

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  • Etiennes of Paris, equalling in numbers, and RePorma- learning their Venetian rivals; the two Scaligers; impas sioned Dolet; eloquent Muret; learned Cujas; terrible Calvin; Ramus, the intrepid antagonist of Aristotle; France De Thou and De Beze; ponderous Casaubon; brilliant young Saumaise.

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  • For example, the name Akantha means "sharp, pointed, or thorned." Sounds like a great antagonist no matter what form she takes.

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  • He makes the perfect antagonist because as his character unfolds, we learn he is Luke Skywalker's father.

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  • Gibbon, however, regrets that the style of his pamphlet was too acrimonious; and this regret, considering his antagonist's slight claims to forbearance, is creditable to him.

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  • The badger does not usually seek to attack, but, when driven to bay, its great muscular power and tough hide render it a formidable antagonist.

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  • In 1715 and 1716 he had a discussion with Leibnitz relative to the principles of natural philosophy and religion, which was at length cut short by the death of his antagonist.

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  • But the other bishops were also against Gustavus, and, irritated by their conscientious opposition, the king abandoned the no longer tenable position of a moderator and came openly forward as an antagonist.

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  • In March 1855 the death of the emperor Nicholas removed his chief antagonist.

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  • A GnRH antagonist blocks the body's ability to produce testosterone.

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  • Perhaps today you have an antagonist spreading falsehood about you.

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  • The opioid antagonist naltrexone can be used to help maintain abstinence.

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  • To the astonishment of everybody, Lord Cardigan escaped from a capital charge of felony because the full name of his antagonist (Harvey Garnett Phipps Tuckett) was not legally proved.

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  • The burghers thus reinforced gained at length a decisive victory over their great antagonist, every stronghold in Basutoland save Thaba Bosigo being stormed.

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  • It does not seek to attack man; but when baited, or in defence of its young, shows great courage and strength, rising on its hind legs and endeavouring to grasp its antagonist in an embrace.

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  • The danger lay in the suddenly changed situation in that direction; as General Greene, instead of following Cornwallis to the coast, boldly pushed down towards Camden and Charleston, S.C., with a view to drawing his antagonist after him to the points where he was the year before, as well as to driving back Lord Rawdon, whom Cornwallis had left in that field.

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  • Toll-like receptor 2 and 4 (TLR2 and TLR4) agonists differentially regulate secretory interleukin-1 receptor antagonist gene expression in macrophages.

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  • Kaikhosrau, therefore, took in 1207 from the Italian Aldobrandini the important harbour of Attalia (Adalia); but his conquests in this direction were put an end to by his attack upon Lascaris, for in the battle that ensued he perished in single combat with his royal antagonist (1211).

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  • A more formidable antagonist than Cole now entered the lists in the person of Thomas Harding, an Oxford contemporary whom Jewel had deprived of his prebend in Salisbury Cathedral for recusancy.

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  • From 1803 to 1807 he was a member of the State House of Representatives, becoming during this period the leader of one of two personalpolitical factions in the state that long continued in bitter strife, occasioning his fighting two duels, in one of which he killed his antagonist, and in the other was wounded in his wrist.

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  • In the reign of Akbar, Bayazid Ansari, called Pir-i-Roshan, " the Saint of Light," the founder of an heretical sect, wrote in Pushtu; as did his chief antagonist, a famous Afghan saint called Akhund Darweza.

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  • Moreover, the serpent or dragon may have an opponent like the eagle (see Goblet d'Alviella, 17), or a cosmical antagonist - the lightning, thunder or rain-god.

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  • Naltrexone is an opioid antagonist that blocks the effect of opioids in the brain.

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  • Clozapine, an atypical neuroleptic agent with D 4 receptor antagonist activity, does not cause tardive dyskinesia but may cause agranulocytosis.

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  • Antagonist ligands can disable the signaling of an agonist ligand.

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  • Naltrexone is an opioid antagonist that blocks the effect of opioid antagonist that blocks the effect of opioids in the brain.

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  • During those three years Alexander was the chief antagonist of Napoleon, and it was largely due to his skill and persistency that the allies held together and freed Europe permanently from the Napoleonic domination.

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  • He now made Beust, Bismarcks Saxon antagonist, the head of his government, as the result of whose negotiations with Dek the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 was agreed upon.

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  • Instead of being opposed to the greatest, Bruce had now as his antagonist the feeblest of the Plantagenets.

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  • Hibil allows himself to be half swallowed by the monster, but is unhurt, and compels his antagonist to recognize the superiority of Mana rabba, the God of light, and to divulge his profoundest secret, the hidden name of darkness.

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  • And, since it had been suppressed, not, as in the East, by mystical speculation, its mightiest antagonist, but by the political church of the hierarchy, we find that wherever chiliasm appears in the middle ages it makes common cause with all enemies of the secularized church.

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  • Hardly had the king become reconciled with this formidable antagonist, when, in 1453, the death of Hunyadi, and the fall of Constantinople, left Bosnia defenceless against the Turks.

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  • In the Reichstag he became the leader of the Opposition, and a vigorous antagonist to Bismarck.

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  • My favorite antagonist in literature is Iago in Othello. He is set on bringing down Othello.

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  • He richly deserved the epithet "the greatest of the Magyars" bestowed upon him by his political antagonist Kossuth.

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  • Middleton is said to have been so irritated that he endeavoured to put the penal laws in force against his antagonist, who prudently withdrew from London.

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  • At Green Spring, near Jamestown Island, Lafayette boldly attacked his antagonist on the 6th of July, but had to save himself by a hasty retreat.

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