The rulers were conceived (except in some of the popular governments of Greece) as in a necessarily antagonistic position to the people whom they ruled.

In other cases, the supervision reverts to the custodial parent, who is already in an antagonistic position with the ex-spouse, who they are supposed to oversee.

If ever they meet, it is from antagonistic, opposed positions where the contest can never be a draw.

He put them in an antagonistic position.

Giles is frustrated and takes an antagonistic position, and then learns that the Council plans on conducting an extensive review of Buffy (her methods, skills, and abilities).

He uses contradiction as a methodological element and puts himself frequently in antagonistic positions as an instrumental resource for the development of aesthetic perspectives.

They're in a critical and antagonistic position whereas Black women and other women of color definitely share oppressed situations with men of their race.

A full-page article in Pravda today blamed the United States for instigating the cold war and said forces in the West continued to support such antagonistic positions.

Especially when you couple it with this part at the end where they're talking about the need to 'break the logjam of mutually antagonistic positions.'

The vizier seems to have adopted a sharply antagonistic position towards the Hittites, favoring the appeasement of their belligerent Assyrian northerly neighbor.