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401 examples of Hostility in a sentence

And he must convey a credible message about a consensual approach, discarding the partisan hostility that has dominated US politics in recent years and, in particular, during the just-concluded campaign.
The fawning article was devoted to one Donald Trump, in whom the author found a thousand virtues because of his supposed hostility to “the system,” the likelihood that he would abandon the West’s “liberal orientation,” and his willingness to attack “media power,” “economic globalization,” and “Wall Street’s arrogance” (and that’s not the half of it).
If the perception of further US hostility toward Latin America persists, the tilt toward an irresponsible, demagogic left will harden.
Russia’s diplomats would have gained little without America’s foreign-policy malaise – a victim of Obama’s vacillation and of Americans’ hostility to any new military adventure, however limited its scope – and Europe’s deep internal divisions.
For decades, open conflict and simmering hostility have been punctuated by periods of short-lived bonhomie.
A country that seeks to focus on its own enormous development challenges should do everything it can to defuse hostility on its borders.
MacFarquhar found the hostility puzzling – why don’t we just admire people who do so much for others, rather than dismiss them as “weird”?
That implication is intolerable, and it will progressively weaken and divide the EU through a type of semi-official hostility to religious faith.
This hostility comes at the wrong moment in time, with Europe engaged in ambitious and difficult constitutional reforms.
The truth is that he used a negotiated hostility with Slobodan Milosevic to solidify personal rule and a Russian-style plunder of state properties by his coterie of loyalists.
As long as Wilders and his European counterparts stay out of government, they have no incentive to temper their illiberal rhetoric and stop stoking up hostility towards ethnic and religious minorities.
Most of the hostility to UBI has come when it stated in this second form.
And yet common themes run through all of them: economic nationalism, social protection, anti-Europeanism, anti-globalization, and hostility not just to the political establishment, but to politics itself.
As a result, growing inter-Korean hostility may ultimately prove far more lethal to the well-being of all Koreans than Roh Moo-hyun’s tragic suicide and Kim Jong-il’s futile fireworks.
The government in Paris, which should have known better, was taken utterly by surprise by the intensity of international hostility to its nuclear objectives, and, as governments do in such situations, has tried to limit the damage.
Indeed, to see high school students expressing their hostility to Sarkozy’s planned slight increase in the retirement age is particularly revealing.
At first, reform of the state incited hostility among both bureaucrats and ordinary citizens.
The first problem is that Swedish mainstream hostility to the State of Israel has clearly begun to cross the line into outright anti-Semitism.
When mainstream politicians, newspapers, and churches rail against Israel, many Swedish Muslims inevitably see this is a green light for them to unleash their own hostility toward ordinary Jews.
For example, the recent release of political prisoners in Belarus removed at a stroke one of the key reasons for the EU’s hostility towards Lukashenko.
By never showing weakness or honesty about her own suffering or any imperfection in her life, negative stories and hostility continue to percolate.
Even leaving aside Trump’s hostility to the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement – which adds yet another source of risk to an already perilous situation – there is now a real and present danger that Syria will become the site of a conflagration even more destructive than the one raging there since 2011.
More broadly, US-China hostility would be felt worldwide, and would disrupt international efforts to confront global challenges such as climate change.
It is Sarkozy himself who has betrayed the hopes of his supporters and consolidated the hostility of his opponents.
Trump’s protectionist instincts and hostility to globalization do not bode well for the world as a whole.
Vemula’s death has reminded Indians once again that the more than 300 million who belong to the lowest castes, as well as the “tribals” or indigenous people, still face discrimination, prejudice, hostility, and even violence on each step of the social ladder.
Trump – roughly half of whose supporters have only a high school education or less – is especially deft at pandering to racial prejudices and hostility toward immigration.
This makes one doubt that hostility to mass immigration is simply a protest against job losses, depressed wages, and growing inequality.
For Goodhart, the taproot of liberals’ hostility to migration controls is their individualist view of society.
Failing to comprehend people’s attachment to settled communities, they label hostility to immigration irrational or racist.
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