How To Use Hostile In A Sentence

Objectionable pictures have been deemed to contribute to a hostile environment.
I didn't really like this new Annabelle at all: she wasn't her old friendly self, she was hostile, brash and rude and she clearly held a large grudge towards me.
Organized religion is a hijacker of reason, rationality, intelligence and logic and is hostile to spiritual freedom, secular and atheistic thoughts. Dr T.P.Chia
The demand for land focused hostile attention upon the graziers, who reared cattle and sheep commercially on extensive pastoral holdings.
They fully deserve the hostile reception they receive. The Sun

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They must do the chores of life, must gain in strength and wisdom to cope with the hostile time of manhood.
Objectionable pictures have been deemed to contribute to a hostile environment.
Gary Sinise plays a government scientist who may or may not be a replicant planted by a hostile alien race.
It may act as such, by suppressing ovulation, but it also works by making the lining of the womb hostile to the newly conceived embryo.
As the philosopher points out, ‘There is an aestheticism in masochism, while sadism is hostile to the aesthetic attitude.’
He could not recall Plauen having talked much about the modern Empire, except to label it a weakling, lost in fantasies of its past, battling for life in a hostile age, constantly stalked by hostile intrigues. The Swordbearer
Victor's authority is appealed to by those who deem the last twelve verses of S. Mark's Gospel spurious, it would of course be inferred that his evidence is hostile to the verses in question; whereas his evidence to their genuineness is the most emphatic and extraordinary on record. The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark Vindicated Against Recent Critical Objectors and Established
They provide cover for a patrol against small arms fire and allow stealthy movement through hostile territory. Times, Sunday Times
In modern times interest has centred around what it is about the owl that makes it the target for this hostile treatment.
Though Cook was a seasoned campaigner known for beating the odds, he could not overcome a severe loss in public confidence at the end of a quarrelsome and often hostile primary campaign.
Life can evolve representations of itself capable of thriving in environments that seem hostile now.
The children were silent, hostile, vindictive, continuously complaining of hunger.
They are in forbidding, hostile territory.
There has also been a blizzard of complaints about poor customer service, falling earnings, rising debt, and a hostile attempt to force changes at board level.
Hostile forces have taken control of cities in the north of the country.
These are (1) the production in the blood of an antidote to the toxin or poison elaborated by the invading microbe -- an antitoxin, which chemically neutralises the toxin; (2) the production in the blood of the attacked animal of a "germicidal" poison which repels and kills the attacking microbes themselves (not merely neutralising their poisonous products); (3) the extermination of the intrusive, disease-producing microbes by a kind of police, which scour the blood channels and tissues and "eat up" -- actually engulf and digest -- the hostile intruders. More Science From an Easy Chair
One person may function well in most areas of life, but be paranoid and hostile in certain circumstances.
Reich 1974 placed the impulsive character, the neurotic character, and the psychopath between neurosis and psychosis and observed the ambivalence, hostile pregenital impulses, ego and superego deficits, immature defenses, and primitive narcissistic features of the impulsive personality. Clinical Work with Adolescents
The ruling oligarchic clique in Moscow headed by Putin, actually, has been quite hostile to Byelorussia and Lukashenko. Belarus: That's enough democracy | Editorial
If I could propose a line, it would be that hostile workplace sexual harassment exists where the environment is so severe as to be functionally equivalent to discrimination in hiring or promotion. The Volokh Conspiracy » Just What Speech Does “Hostile Environment Harassment” Law Restrict?
But shareholding rules make hostile bids hard to win.
A little hope is a powerful thing, especially to a first-time buyer in a hostile market.
American offices in Afghanistan admitted to me that they used the word insurgent in all their reports to describe any kind of hostile shooting. CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2009
The book purports to recount the history of gun ownership in America and is written with a slant that is hostile to gun ownership.
Such criticisms initially got a hostile reception from parliamentary and government officials, but attitudes have slowly changed.
He has been distant, hostile, and completely in the thrall of consumer groups. Times, Sunday Times
Despite the rivalry, he insists he is still good muckers with Amis, who he thinks receives an inexplicably hostile press, and Barnes, who he says has been in hiding finishing a novel.
The situation within the company is described as a complete breakdown in the relationship between the parties, a deadlock and a hostile environment.
The key to prevent such phenomena is to dissolve these exclusive or hostile theist elements in religions and to base their doctrines on a universal humanist idea.
However, aggression in the horse does not mean that he will be aggressive or hostile towards us.
The hostile gang was temporarily disconcerted by the manoeuvre, then it dashed from the train in pursuit. Chapter 42
As a result, students of the left face the most hostile political environment in modern times. Smithsonian Mag
It is a fond hope that there is a magical number at which all those people hostile to immigration will suddenly change the habit of a lifetime. Times, Sunday Times
Furniture weighs suddenly turn hostile cozily : Furniture tide respect criterion incline to is muti_function with diversification.
I can picture him now, often speaking without a note, with humour, incisive argument and magisterial disdain for the opposing view, swatting away anyone ill-judged enough to make a hostile intervention.
Crews had to be ready for hostile fire from the ground.
I have generally found the vast majority to be fair and reasonable, and far from hostile.
It is worth recalling that when India had a very low rate of economic growth, as was the case until the 1980s, a common argument was that democracy was hostile to fast economic growth.
Then the official line changed to claiming that the aircraft had come under ‘sustained and hostile fire’.
PeopleSoft has also sued Oracle in connection with the hostile takeover bid.
He said that despite hostile desert conditions, morale among the servicemen was high.
In Het huisje aan de sloot (The Little House on the Canal, 1921), for example, she deals with the sad fate of a Jewish family alone in a small, hostile town. Carry Van Bruggen.
If you venture from "feminine" standards, you are labelled aggressive and hostile.
The questions even became a shade less hostile as his new air of poise impressed the panel.
On the other, they are hostile to hard work and always on the look out for an easy buck.
But others have been forced to take on heavy debts to fight off hostile bids.
Instead of spreading out and confronting their neighbors in hostile face-offs, foraging sanderlings bunched together in tight little flocks.
Sidney as a poet, therefore, understandably asserts the improving role of poetry against those hostile to literature.
Dub reggae had themes dealing with the overthrow of Babylon and which were openly hostile to the white world.
But they have fought with incredible courage in almost unimaginably hostile terrain. The Sun
This can create some interesting maneuvers as Rayne takes on nearby enemies while evading hostile fire.
The state-run news service reports they will stand trial and that their alleged crime is entering North Korea illegally, intending what they call hostile acts. CNN Transcript May 11, 2009
Southampton fans gave their former coach a hostile reception .
Neufeld contends that peer orientation undermines family cohesion, poisons the school atmosphere and fosters an aggressively hostile and sexualized youth culture.
Writer Peter Pierce believes that the fear of being lost in hostile desert or bushland has been deeply etched into the Australian psyche ever since Europeans colonised the southern continent.
Be prepared to fish in hostile conditions of rain, sleet and snow with a chill wind biting your flesh, and with weed clogging your line.
Members of it are clearly trying to preserve a minority religion in a hostile world, trying to work out where they can afford to compromise with the mainstream and where they must remain inflexible.
Here's hoping Alphard institutes a hostile take over of Ichinomiya … Anime Nano!
The audience gave him a downright hostile reception.
Muhammadan tradition, which with rare exceptions is uniformly hostile to the Umayyad dynasty, regards Hussain ﮫﻨﻋﻰﻠﺎﻌﺘﷲﺍﻰﻀﺮ as a martyr and Yazid as his murderer. Archive 2009-07-01
This means that all politics will come to be conducted in a goldfish bowl of universal, and often hostile, exposure. Times, Sunday Times
The opposition parties had mostly been unenthusiastic, if not openly hostile, about parity legislation.
The prevailing mood of public opinion remained hostile.
He felt at bay, like a very dim minister facing a hostile House.
The cities of Stalinvast were more like coral reefs looming above a sea of hostile jungle.
They might gain access to our systems and tamper with data through computer network attacks or exploit it for hostile purposes.
This is a recipe for a resentful, suspicious, self-interested, and racially hostile polity.
They faced some hostile questioning over the cost of the project.
The hawks saw the new policy as providing political cover for war, humoring the international community while remaining hostile to the return of the weapons inspectors.
The deeper forests are virtually hostile territory where few humans venture.
Will they be favourable or hostile to your approach? Times, Sunday Times
The occupying State shall be regarded only as administrator and usufructuary of public buildings, real estate, forests, and agricultural estates belonging to the hostile State, and situated in the occupied country.
Scott kept his expression hostile, but beneath all the cuts and bruises, he seemed to pale. Crescendo
Security officials say they have evidence that Gadhafi—who bankrolled insurrections across West Africa, including Nigerian oil militants—funneled money to Boko Haram's most hostile leaders. New Attacks Threaten Nigeria's Future
Greenock's attack was far from hostile and slipshod strokeplay accounted for the demise of the home side.
And if the evidence for charges relating to his hostile acts indicates that he was acting in self-defense, then his conduct is as justifiable as would be an assault on a police officer who commits an unprovoked attack on a person. Balkinization
His platoon, attacking heavily fortified and strategically located hostile emplacements, had been stopped by intense fire from a large bunker containing several firing posts.
Its area is a tiny fraction of that occupied by the 21 hostile Arab states.
Firms massaged their profit figures upwards so as to discourage hostile takeover bids.
Even the simulated F-16 fighter jet you were piloting into a hostile zone near the Strait of Hormuz.
It also explains how some leaders can face a hostile board or angry group of shareholders with calmness and reason. Times, Sunday Times
American officers in Afghanistan admitted to me that they use the word insurgent in all their reports to describe any kind of hostile shooting. CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2009
There is an even greater need for good advice, particularly away from the headlines, in agreed as opposed to hostile transactions.
Despite the increasingly hostile sideswipes at him, the Chancellor is secure in his post.
For, O foremost of men, it was thus that subjugator of hostile cities, king Nala, had fallen into distress along with his wife, in consequence, O bull of The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
It is our tank sections and infantry squads that invariably make contact with hostile forces, not companies or battalions.
Their training, he said, ‘renders them very hostile to the revolutionary spirit and the unreflecting passions of the multitude.’
Factions within the party were hostile to antiquated academic privileges and promoted new forms of applied scientific research and practice.
The Dutch are angry at the price rises that accompanied the loss of the guilder and the launch of the euro, hostile towards the new east European members from last year's big-bang enlargement, and opposed to Turkey joining the union.
Racial harassment involves hostile or offensive behaviour towards an individual or group because of their race.
But he is largely untroubled by fears that we will face killer robots or other forms of hostile AI. Let's Hope the Robots Are Nice
The primary danger of war was the irrational arms race and overly hostile relations between the major military powers.
Researchers have thus far been unable to remove a certain "cattiness" gene from her personality that makes her cheerfully hostile to females. Destructoid
This simple robot gun emplacement is suitable for driving off smaller hostile life forms for an extended period of time.
A Ministry of Defence spokesman said there was no evidence of hostile action.
It represents the heaviest loss of British life in a single hostile incident since the war began.
Instead, Costa's histrionics merely inflamed the situation and, after an unsightly stand-off between the two sets of players, there was a hostile undercurrent to the rest of the game.
The voice was cold and hostile, asking the question in a composed yet commanding way.
Hostile commentators seized on this to paint a picture of continuing retrogression to which the regime's final collapse in the late 1940s in an orgy of corruption induced by hyperinflation, lends colour.
Instead of spreading out and confronting their neighbors in hostile face-offs, foraging sanderlings bunched together in tight little flocks.
Therefore the first step in war will be to get rid of hostile aircraft. FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
When confronted with the reality of a shabby and hostile England unlike the England of her dreams, she is utterly horrified.
As soon as we see them start moving towards the east, then they have what we call hostile intent, then we can target them," he said. Gadhafi Stops Rebels in Battle for Oil Port
For one thing, his staid demeanour and the conservatism of his dress and habits might have led one to suppose that he was a fuddy-duddy, set in his ways and hostile to change.
When our paths did cross he was at best, civil and at worst, hostile. Times, Sunday Times
It is all part of my determination to make the UK a hostile environment for anyone who seeks to evade the law. The Sun
In OGR Cooperative mode, you and your team - mates face off against hostile soldiers in enemy territory.
The press, which Shas activists regard as particularly hostile to their party, was showered with abuse.
Two members had remained exceedingly hostile to the case, and because of their refusal to compromise the jury declared: ‘We are unanimously of the opinion that the book in question is calculated to deprave public morals, but at the same time we entirely exonerate the defendants from any corrupt motives in publishing it.’ Important Battles « Tales from the Reading Room
And the report found the secretive nature of the migration policy-making has left voters feeling betrayed and hostile towards politicians. The Sun
Organized religion is a hijacker of reason, rationality, intelligence and logic and is hostile to spiritual freedom, secular and atheistic thoughts. Dr T.P.Chia
When our paths did cross he was at best, civil and at worst, hostile. Times, Sunday Times
His smoky shots of blasted earth and gnashing machinery, spraying explosions and blackened pits create an oppressively alien landscape hostile to man and woman alike.
It's hardly standard practice for a hostile takeover, where it is normal to pour as much scorn and vitriol on the target's management as possible.
Time allowed 00:18 Read in studio A brewery which fought off a hostile takeover bid last year has announced record profits.
He said the troops did not encounter any hostile fire.
Black faculty members also accused the university of institutional racism and creating a hostile work environment.
It is also fitted with an electronic screen that flags up hostile aircraft in red or yellow. Times, Sunday Times
Everyone feels hostile at times and has hurt, angry feelings. Coping with Bulimia
[FN#67] Márid (lit. "contumacious" from the Heb. root Marad to rebel, whence "Nimrod" in late Semitic) is one of the tribes of the Jinn, generally but not always hostile to man. Arabian nights. English
The latter, therefore, would be a more likely engagement than the former when leisure is chaliced be hostile economic forces that make it costly. On That ASAUK Paper
The prevailing mood of public opinion remained hostile.
The hostile reaction provoked more bad passes. The Sun
The regime should be treated as a pariah, not just as a hostile but recognizable political competitor.
Boniface expresses a body of tradition violently hostile to the king.
His strength did not avail against the hostile onslaught.
As a controversial public figure he has breasted much hostile criticism.
It is life sculpted by extreme and hostile conditions, life that is fragile and all but unknown.
This is because him himself can not be hostile to reason long- termly either.
The city is encircled by a hostile army.
He also brought forward the company's annual shareholder meeting to late March in what is seen as an effort to disrupt the hostile takeover bid.
The hostile crowd included dozens of placard-waving children who stamped their feet and called for the pool to be saved.
Southampton fans gave their former coach a hostile reception .
But there is also the fact that any rearranging of the distribution would be extremely likely to provoke a hostile reaction. Science, Technology, and Social Change
They risked their lives in a hostile physical environment and triumphed over nature and savages. The Tribes Triumphant
He built high walls to protect his people from hostile forces.
These are military sweeps of areas known to be hostile to the Karzai government to kill or round up suspected opponents and terrorise the population.
The Hare play involves two couples struggling to reach home through a hostile environment. Times, Sunday Times
Initially, the responses were hostile to any mention of "electromagnetism" in space, even near-space here in the solar system. Eta Carinae- A Naked Eye Enigma | Universe Today
His strength did not avail against the hostile onslaught.
There are two big things holding the programme back: money and hostile local bureaucrats. Times, Sunday Times
This change in terminology is not intended to be hostile or vengeful, though such reactions would not seem unwarranted at this point, but it would serve two clear purposes: An Illustrated Guide : The Lovecraft News Network
The two men were confused by the hostile reception the mob gave them, and they had reason to be.
The video shows what the U.S. Military calls a legitimate strike against hostile forces.
But when a camera crew arrived at the rectory, they got a hostile reception.
On the other, there are politically hostile audiences.
Each hostile encounter convinces her that she is indeed a hateful person. Trauma and Recovery
The West has gradually relaxed its hostile attitude to this influential state.
As such, Nature willeventually force us to unite and cooperate with one another or we will destroy each other trying to stay alive in acold andincreasinglyhostile climate. CLIMATE COLLAPSE LIKELY / WHAT WOULD HAPPEN ?
It seemed to me he was not so much indifferent as hostile towards these poor men.
In consequence, the sciences of animal behaviour and experimental psychology were founded by men deeply hostile to anthropomorphic explanations.
He was hostile, aggressive, profane, rude, demeaning and intimidating.
And the Jersey driver remains a prominent folk devil all over the Northeast: bumptious, heedless, hostile and barely competent.
It reflects the aberrant personality of some American politicians hostile to China's development and becoming powerful.
Natural selection has equipped us with a religious longing for dialogue with supernatural beings, and this propensity has in turn fostered a sense of "sociality" and other emotions essential to dealing with the omnipresent threat of extinction at the hands of nature and hostile human groups. Commonweal Magazine
Globalization simply means freedom of movement for goods and people, and it is hard to be violently hostile to that.
Tender passages occurred here and there all the same, and Weinlich, to whom I had already shown the beginning of my work on my return to Leipzig, praised me for the clearness and good vocal quality of the introduction I had composed to the first act; this was an Adagio for a vocal septette, in which I had tried to express the reconciliation of the hostile families, together with the emotions of the wedded couple and the sinister passion of the secret lover. My Life — Volume 1
It more than triples the range the Navy can engage an air target and allows ships to act prior to hostile aircraft being in a position to launch their own weapons.
I have no idea why he is hostile to me.
He was really on his own now, and in less than two minutes he would be flying over hostile territory.
American generals have the power to order the destruction of any hostile aircraft, if they do not have time to contact senior politicians.
The reaction to his frankness was hostile.
If I understand the cultural pattern correctly, they should be more hostile to the people up the hill than to us.
He was extremely hostile towards her.
In the movie, Sacagawea and Clark fall in love while traversing hostile Native American territory and battling the jealous villain Toussaint Charbonneau.
They are Iraqis, we are assuming, because they've been checking whether they were so-called friendlies, i.e. coalition forces, or hostiles. CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2003
The Second World War began with Germany's attack on Poland in 1939 and ended with the continent's division into two hostile blocs.
He may construe the approach as a hostile act.
If he feels he's facing an uninterested or hostile audience, he will be vague, non-committal and withdrawn.
Belisarius instantly sallied from the gates; and while the soldiers chanted his name and victory, the hostile engines of war were reduced to ashes. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
It is essential that all forces and assets that can combat hostile aircraft should take part in air defense.
Then, with one short hostile look at the deputation, Lee resumed his chair.
Diplomats serving in embassies in hostile regions have long been able to retreat to a reinforced inner sanctum, designed to shield them from rampaging mobs. Times, Sunday Times
Private practice is burdened by bureaucratic demands in a hostile climate.
Everywhere one finds the man or woman whose abilities are not recognized, who is discriminated against, who finds an enemy in every one who does not kotow and who interprets as hostile every action not directly conciliating or friendly. The Foundations of Personality
He had already become hostile and she didn't want to antagonize him further. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
Sometimes may lead to hostile behaviour. Working with Teenagers
It is generally the case that if the stock market identifies an easy value increasing option, such as selling out to a hostile bidder or unbundling the businesses, then under-performing managements will be punished.
The pilot was able to maneuver the crippled aircraft out of the hostile area.
He was deeply hostile to the idea of psychotherapy.
The hostile bid has infuriated board members of the Dowty group, who claim that their company is being underpriced.
Children identified by teachers as unpopular were likely to be overtly exposed to aversive social environments, either because they clearly had few friends and playmates or because peers were actively mean or hostile toward them.
Grubman knew Ebbers, and even advised him on the hostile takeover of MCI.
And although your Lordship will doubtless proceed, I must warn you through my experience of European affairs, heedfully, that the reasons that operate in this small presidio, which is surrounded by barbarians and hostile nations, have no place in populous cities. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 25 of 55 1635-36 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing t
We still think of ourselves as prey - vulnerable creatures in a hostile world. Times, Sunday Times
The Antarctic survey team will be using vehicles specially designed to cope with the hostile environment.
Even while moving to the Left, trade-union activists remained hostile to Lenin's fierce factionalism.
Chief executives agreed with him that 50p is emblematic of an attitude that is hostile to wealth creators. Times, Sunday Times
General have been openly hostile toward Doctors Community.
Was it prudently considered that the dullest of critics can read only as long as his eyes are open? and that the function of judge must incessantly bring under his cognisance papaverous volumes, with which only a super-human endowment of vigilance could hope successfully to contend? so that the goddess is driven, by the necessity of the game, to admit within the circuit of her somnolent sway, a virtue to which she is naturally and peculiarly hostile? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845
I told him many years ago, it's very hostile, " Kittinger said. "You're in a vacuum, and your whole life is dependent on the pressure suit working properly.
But we also attribute to him the power to mediate between those same concerns and the hostile forces of disease.
I have no idea why he is hostile to me.
Such foreign direct investment is less about hostile takeovers than about friendly acquisitions.
She found his manner towards her distinctly hostile.

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