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Whenever hostility between India and Pakistan is cranked up, hostility toward Muslims grows.
Any enforcement of religious practice only creates hostility toward religion.
But there is also a more general sense of hostility to all things Jewish.
Who are Le Pen and Mélénchon trying to kid in feigning concern for public civility when they only fan resentment and hostility?
One only needs to read online comments reacting to opinions expressed in perfectly respectable publications to see how much hostility exists in people’s minds.
Beleaguered Brexit hardliners are clearly animated by hostility toward immigrants and foreigners.
But its successes in Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine are creating great anxiety, and even hostility, in some quarters.
Hostility toward previous US presidents is a must as well.
The mutual hostility of Ahmadinejad and the clerical class offers the Supreme Leader the best of both worlds.
During the Brexit referendum campaign, the Leave camp openly stoked hostility toward outsiders.
Similarly, in the US, deep-rooted suspicion of federal government power – especially in the South, where it was used to abolish slavery and enforce civil rights – has resulted in hostility to countercyclical macroeconomic policy.
And Putin’s return to the Stalinist practice of sending police to search opponents’ homes, combined with his attempts to ignite hostility between social groups – for example, between provincial Russia and the urban middle class – is deepening antagonism and distrust among citizens.
Given the CCP’s ideological hostility to the West, and its zero-sum geopolitical mindset, such gloating should come as no surprise.
This dedication to dirigisme has spawned among the ruling elite a sense of entitlement and hostility to business.
Miller plays to all of Trump’s worst instincts: belligerent chauvinism, vindictive loathing of liberals, and hostility to minorities.
A unilateral sanctions regime will most probably lead Iran to restart its nuclear program, implying renewed hostility with the West.
The difficulties that some Americans have with health-care reform tell us more about American hostility to government than it does about health care in general.
This requires a policy that integrates China as a responsible global stakeholder, but hedges against possible hostility its bets by maintaining close relations with Japan, India, and other countries in the region.
Later, when Israel began to build settlements all over the occupied territories, admiration even turned into active hostility from Europe’s left.
Indeed, pundits explained Syria’s initial immunity to the Arab Spring by pointing to the regime’s staunch defense of Arab dignity, reflected in its resolute hostility towards Israel.
The composite dialogue was put on hold, with both sides unable to cast off the heavy burden of decades of hostility and intense rivalry.
Enduring hostility between India and Pakistan, the region’s largest economies, remains the key barrier to such a breakthrough.
Provoked, in part, by Arab neighbors’ hostility and Palestinian leaders’ intransigence, Israel began to turn sharply to the right.
Some see this hostility to Israel as camouflaging old-fashioned anti-Semitism.
To be sure, a long history of mutual Christian-Muslim hostility, and recent cases of radical Islamist violence, have made many people fearful of Islam in a way that they are not of Hinduism, say, or Buddhism.
In their hostility to Islam, they like to talk about defending “Enlightenment values,” whereas in fact they lament the collapse of faith, whether religious or secular.
In contrast to that era, popular hostility is not really motivated by US actions in or toward Latin America; but today's anti-Americanism still complicates life greatly for democratic leaders in the hemisphere, and for America itself.
An assessment of Obama’s presidency must focus not just on him, but also on the Republicans’ unprecedented hostility.
Of course, some ideas – incitement of racial hatred, gender hostility, or political violence – are anathema in every free society.
That failure suggests that North Korea's fundamental hostility to the South remains unabated.
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