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Will this prove to be self-defeating by further antagonizing independent voters?

Antagonizing the Clinton administration eventually contributed to Netanyahu's downfall.

Every bomb we drop, antagonizing more civilians, makes that goal more unrealizable.

And all are fearful of ridicule or, worse, antagonizing voters back home.

If you take them both away, the locals, whom you have been studiously antagonizing, will swamp whoever you leave behind.

There are countless facts not only unaccounted for but diametrically opposed to it and antagonizing it.

Now it need hardly be stated that Peggy had no premeditated intention of antagonizing the man.

One thing seemed clear—that he had gone further than was necessary in antagonizing the old woman.

But this Englishman, with his harsh and violently antagonizing way of putting things, was clearly not the man for the need.