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Example sentences for "antagonizing"

Lexicographically close words:
antagonistical; antagonists; antagonize; antagonized; antagonizes; ante; antea; anteater; anteaters; antebellum
  1. One part of this operation is that it is capable of antagonizing the poisons of intermittent disorders, as also of certain convulsive affections and skin-diseases.

  2. Does it not seem better to confess our ignorance, and to say that all we know for certain is that these remedies have the power of antagonizing certain diseases?

  3. The Japanese people will then be able to say that the President never entertained anti-Japanese feelings, or adopted the policy of "befriending the Far and antagonizing the Near.

  4. No," said Kennedy stiffening suddenly in backbone, as he saw the outlet opened by Maguire, between antagonizing Peter, and retracting his consent.

  5. That is, by not antagonizing the popular men in politics, but by becoming one of them and making them help me.

  6. Nor were they sufficiently strong in either guns or loyal followers to risk antagonizing the wily old chief.

  7. If she was safe here he might only harm her by antagonizing the Arab in an attempt to take her away and return her to her English friends.

  8. What we are seeking, therefore, is to discover how to arrange things in such an order as to set in motion a train of causation that will harmonize our own conditions without antagonizing the exercise of a like power by others.

  9. It cannot be antagonizing itself from different centers--in other words its operation in a simultaneous order at every point is the first necessity of its being.

  10. Most men in his position would have been tempted to try to make capital at my expense by antagonizing me and discrediting me so as to make my policies fail, just for the sake of making them fail.

  11. It will always be regarded as a redeeming feature that it was in antagonizing synergism and championing the Lutheran sola gratia that Flacius coined his unhappy proposition.

  12. In moving to gain this natural equilibrium we allow our muscles to carry us forward, and when they have contracted as far as is possible for one set, the antagonizing muscles carry us back.

  13. Therefore, even in the nursery we play antagonizing processes.

  14. In the Bay State campaign I had learned the personal cost of antagonizing the "System"; the copper magnates showed me that they had terrors at command which might make even "Standard Oil" jealous.

  15. This, however, does not prove that the law of which we have been speaking does not exist, but only that there is some antagonizing principle at work, capable for a time of making head against the law.

  16. The law of diminishing return applies therefore to mining in a still more unqualified sense than to agriculture; but the antagonizing agency, that of improvements in production, also applies in a still greater degree.

  17. If all those cannot be obtained, the patient must die; the assumption probably being that some unknown person is antagonizing the "doctor" with arts of sorcery.

  18. Administration of the antagonizing gland extracts has helped others.

  19. Or, released from the discipline of the deficient member, or the necessity for antagonizing it, they may be released from its stimulus to secrete, and produce less of their own specific secretion.

  20. In this way it was not "suppressed" in anybody's interest, but afterward had the effect of antagonizing certain War Department detectives against my subsequent services, as will be shown further on.

  21. In giving my full testimony to the Committee on the Conduct of the War, I had no thought of antagonizing the War Department.

  22. If you do not strengthen it to stubbornness by antagonizing him, but use tact to get rid of his resistance, you will not find it difficult to melt away the obstruction.

  23. Also, if you are able to read your prospect's thoughts and character, you can avoid antagonizing his ideas.

  24. Their antagonizing influence is encountered wherever the gospel is preached.

  25. Many other bodies are here, antagonizing the established order of things and teaching religious anarchy.

  26. Instead of antagonizing every farmer on the Project, you ought to be making them feel that you are their partner and friend in a mighty difficult business.

  27. In antagonizing you farmers, I've opened the way for the enemies of the Service to reach you.

  28. Some merchants were afraid of antagonizing the Southern Pacific, some had an interest in it.

  29. Afraid to vote against the tools of the cattle thieves for fear of antagonizing the gang.

  30. Afraid to call your souls your own for fear of antagonizing the gang.

  31. Afraid to peach for fear of antagonizing the gang.

  32. Scharpp explained that secrecy was advisable to avoid antagonizing the Panamanian Government, "which is friendly to Italy and we can cooperate with the Italian Legation here.

  33. Emerson was ordered back to Germany for explicit instructions on how to carry on propaganda without antagonizing the entire country.

  34. Of course, Morrison is antagonizing the banking interests, too.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "antagonizing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.