‘Winner-take-all electoral systems and adversary politics result in truth being irrelevant.’
‘Amendments to the Criminal Procedure law in 1996 introduced adversary elements to the fact-finding process in criminal trials.’
‘You are not judges now, but advocates under this adversary system we have been discussing.’
‘In the adversary system, we depend on lawyers to bring cases.’
‘It's got an adversary system that obscures the truth; trials are run by lawyers and they don't have much interest in truth and justice.’
‘Cynical adversary stances are not helpful - belief is necessary.’
‘For generations, Scotland has maintained an adversary culture, defining itself by its differences from England.’
‘The original inspection process, which lasted several years, developed into an adversary process.’
‘This right is fundamental to the adversary system of justice in the Untied States.’
‘There is too much at stake in this relationship for either side to really push an adversary agenda with the other.’
‘It is a necessary concomitant or consequence of this particular system which is an inquisitorial system, rather than a strict adversary system.’
‘It is the classic adversary system which overlaps with a two-party system, and the arguments and votes are often predictable.’
‘You see under the adversary system, as I've said, the parties produce the evidence.’
‘Mr Chairman, in our country and the House in particular, we have an adversary system.’
‘The adversary procedure followed in a court of law is not appropriate in its investigations.’
‘If the chief virtue of the adversary system lies in giving opposing parties a hearing, its greatest vice lies in giving those parties an incentive to silence each other.’
‘The very adversary structure that put me off from litigation is now the norm in political life in general and political life is not a place for honest exchange.’
‘If it ever rises to the 80% range, the current adversary relationship would have to change.’
‘She also focuses on the ways in which the use of the adversary method as a paradigm of philosophy limits and distorts the work of philosophers.’
‘Our legal system is fundamentally an adversary system - and this solution would betray its very nature.’
Origin
Middle English from Old French adversarie, from Latin adversarius ‘opposed, opponent’, from adversus (see adverse).
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