A number of independent powers had considerable military strength, but none was in the same communications-security league with the two principal adversaries.

"Ah, yes, given to my principal adversary," the wizard said in mock seriousness.

They see Mr. Gorbachev, far more than Soviet reformers, as their principal adversary.

Germany and Russia then will not "fixate on each other as either principal partner or principal adversary."

That development has worried Iraq's principal adversaries: Israel, Iran and Syria.

The principal adversaries in the farm dispute are the United States and the 12-nation European Community.

Given the threat posed by our principal adversary, the Soviet Union, military expenditures in the 1970's were too low.

I want to see an improvement in our relationship with our principal adversary, the Soviet Union, and some movement toward arms control.

The two principal legal adversaries in the case well exemplify the two worlds.

Among those most concerned was Major Hamond, a churchwarden who later became Davidson's principal adversary.