He is coming our way next summer to run, though not against his good friend, the president.

Surprise now worked against him and his friends, not for them.

"And you don't like to go up against your friends."

Will women in these circumstances really speak out against their friends, family or community?

I can't possibly turn against my own friends and kill them.

"How will he feel if you take sides against his new friends, I wonder?"

"It's nice when you can play against your old friends."

"But what if honor requires that you turn against your friends?"

It pits players against friends in a test of knowledge.

Or did he have some new accusation to level against her only friend?