Hostile
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604 examples of Hostile in a sentence
Jane, Boy and his (evil) relatives wind up as captives of a
hostile
tribe and Tarzan with Cheetah and the help of most of Africas Elephant population arrive in time to save the day.
A too lovable parents one day and
hostile
the next day.
In the Soviet era, the distances between Russia and its neighbors became unbridgeable chasms, with the USSR ringed either by
hostile
states or weak, servile ones.
The majority population is very
hostile
towards Roma, and discrimination against them occurs at every level.
This strategy must address both intolerable living conditions for Roma and the
hostile
stereotypes that prevail within majority populations, because they mutually reinforce each other.
It is not surprising, then, that he has already begun taking a
hostile
approach to online activism.
Russia is now as
hostile
to the EU as it is to NATO, and has created a Eurasian Economic Union to serve as an alternative regional unification effort.
She remained, to the end,
hostile
to central-bank independence, regularly rejecting the advice of her chancellors to allow the Bank of England to control interest rates.
She was especially
hostile
to what she saw as the excessive independence of the European Central Bank.
Israel now trades more with the once implacably
hostile
Asian giants – China, India, and Japan – than it does with its leading global ally, the United States.
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who was fiercely
hostile
to Israel while in opposition, has become a close ally, having visited the country twice within three months in 2015.
In such a difficult domestic situation, North Korea’s leaders may adopt more
hostile
policies to obtain economic aid from both South Korea and the United States.
But, while this “lighthouse” foreign-policy approach increased Indonesia’s international clout, it led to encirclement by
hostile
Western powers – and to bankruptcy.
Even if she wins, she will struggle to gain a parliamentary majority, meaning that she may well end up in what the French evocatively call cohabitation with a
hostile
parliament and prime minister.
Indeed, from the EU’s perspective, a
hostile
president in France, the country of Jean Monnet, would be far more destructive than Brexit.
National elections will be held this year and next in the US, France, and Germany, and the campaigns will play out in an environment that is increasingly
hostile
to international agreements in any form.
In Western eyes they became the
hostile
and militant face of Islam, intent on exporting violence.
They wanted trade and other benefits of recognition, which would benefit both nations in those Cold War days, when China was fiercely
hostile
to the Soviet Union, with which it had almost gone to war only a few years earlier.
Nonetheless, all three are examples that other countries, including developed ones, should watch closely as they search for viable growth strategies in an increasingly
hostile
global economic environment.
They ensure that key legal and factual issues get raised, that the best evidence is obtained – often through diplomatic means, but often at risk of life and limb in
hostile
territory – that guilty pleas do not dilute the truth, and that sentencing recommendations are commensurate with the crimes’ true dimensions.
“The government will not allow it to be the target of
hostile
raids by other banks.”
Nor were there any states with Jewish majorities that were
hostile
to the West.
His right-wing allies in the House of Representatives (even more partisan than the Senate) have subjected the new FBI director, Christopher Wray, to
hostile
questioning in various committee hearings.
Bruce Riedel, who until recently headed the Obama administration’s strategy review for Afghanistan and Pakistan, and who is by no means
hostile
to America’s unique relations with Israel, has been explicit about this.
Merkel, now politically weakened, must try to cobble together an unruly coalition that includes both the Europhile Greens, who welcomed Macron’s speech, and the Euroskeptic Free Democrats (FDP), who were
hostile
to it.
In light of the fact that during the past millennium the EU’s members fought countless wars with each other, and that for forty five years a cold war split the continent into two
hostile
blocs, today’s Europe is a success of monumental historical significance.
Trump says that he’s simply trying a new approach, after years of cold, if not hostile, US-Russia relations.
But cultures that tend to resent the economically successful – either as an affront to equality, or on the implicit assumption that the economic gains of some must be at the expense of others – tend to be more
hostile
toward Jews and given to conspiratorial theories to explain their economic success.
Even political and religious leaders
hostile
to change and industrialization are not uncommon.
When the Lisbon Treaty was signed, Germany was wholly
hostile
to giving the ECB such a role.
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