America's wartime partner was now suspicious, aggrieved and hostile.
The counterpart to a childish state at home is a hostile world outside.
The worst that a prince can expect from a hostile people is to be abandoned by them; but with a hostile nobility, not only does he have to fear being abandoned, but also that they will oppose him.
Although the DPJ ran an election campaign hostile to the economic policies of former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, the IRCJ is one of the hallmarks of his tenure.
Although most are hostile toward anyone who trespasses on their territories, a few unique dire Wolf packs have befriended the Horde in recent years.
Studies show that mindful people not only have stronger immune systems but are more likely to be happy and enjoy greater life satisfaction, and they are less likely to be hostile or anxious.
Horsepower was hostile to them.
His strength did not avail against the hostile onslaught.
The few land masses that jut from the low clouds are covered with hostile jungle.
But his instincts are plainly hostile to the free flow of goods, investment and people across borders.
The North Korean leader may want to bequeath to his successor, perhaps his third son, Kim Jong Un, an international environment that is less hostile to North Korea.
But it relies on the acquiescence of the other political parties and the army, who have seemed even more hostile than do the Maoists to the peace deal they all struck.
"The audience was hostile, " Woody said.
He looks as if he has emerged unscathed: from a brush with a hostile American President.
I don't allow people to insult or belittle me. I don't get hostile; I just walk away.
However, it is known from the study of modern hunter-gatherers, and inferred from archaeological evidence about ancient ones, that neighbouring tribes are often hostile.
But in the same moment, drawing a deep sigh of relief from everybody, the hostile figure melted into the face of Big Brother, black-haired, black-moustachio'd, full of power and mysterious calm, and so vast that it almost filled up the screen.
Their rival company is planning a hostile takeover.
Upon inspection, it exhibits some wonderful features of Darwinian evolution, and is aptly adapted to its hostile and precarious environment.
Accounts of plantation life in the Antebellum South suggest that even hostile relationships became easier to endure "in the civil atmosphere offered by the shade of a prominent porch."
It's (usually) not overtly hostile bickering.
The Hobbesian state will always exist in a world of hostile other states, unregulated by some kind of higher law.
The kingdom of Bohai occupied only a part of the old territory of Koguryo. It is a misreading of the history that the unified Silla and the kingdom of Bohai are hostile to each other, just like the two parts of a divided country.
Governments do not want to rely on faraway, unstable or downright hostile countries for oil and gas.
In fact, they might be openly hostile.
The church he loved was celibate, hostile to women priests and set against gays; if Catholics were only faithful to the teachings of the Magisterium, he wrote, all would be well.
And a few days later, there they all were with hands in the air, being sworn in now in front of the very hostile Congress.
It was my Peruvian guide, Cho, who came up with a solution: instead of passing through the hostile village, we'd inflate our rubber rafts and paddle over to a long shingle island.
The Poles, Slovaks and Czechs were also hostile to the Hungarian plan.
Could the Epicurean will hostile to pessimism be merely the prudence of a suffering man?
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