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Sentence Examples At that time, my enthusiasm met a cold blast of indifference or hostility from most of the people I talked to about it. So much of the way people behave in negotiations causes anger, bitterness, hostility or antagonism. In fact, he thought, their hostility was often proof of the revolutionary nature of his ideas. Deepening poverty exacerbated by rising prices and pegged wages will lead to growing anti-government hostility. Not surprisingly this hostility rears its head most often when the Liverpudlians feel they have been insulted. The arrogance that Dawkins displayed is perhaps the root of all the hostility we see against science. These explanations were, despite my best and more detailed efforts, met by indifference, glazed eyes and near hostility by my table mates. He gave me a look that seemed to communicate hostility since he was busy unloading tangerines. We need less hostility, folks, and obeying the laws of the road can go a long way towards making for a peaceful existence. There may even be hostility between the goalies that even their masks can't hide. Both Marcus Trescothick and Andrew Strauss weathered the opening hostility and, aided by the lack of a third man, started scoring freely. Are these questions to ask ourselves as the years pass, as the hostility grows, as the piles of dead mount on both sides? John gazes longingly at her but never dreams of making a move, despite his wife's spiral into self-absorbed hostility. At the time he also saw deepening distrust and hostility among the races taking root. Often you sense the underlying feeling of hostility among certain people working in the tourism trade. Political art consisted in fusing the petty bourgeoisie into oneness through its common hostility to the proletariat. Surely, the Congress should be sensitive and appreciative of the hostility to foreign troops. It was only when I began to cross that ideological boundary that the pointed remarks and occasional open hostility became glaring. The kind of small-town hostility to European monarchies comically depicted by Mark Twain then bestrode the world stage. Generally our messy shoulder length hair and denims invoked hostility and disdain from our elders and betters. Show More Sentences Altair sensed no hostility in the man's tone of voice, and decided to give his full name, whether for better or for worse. The water authority has temporarily shelved the plans because of local hostility. The hostility of libertarians to big government extended to U.S. involvement in the world. They are being met with indifference or active hostility because they have committed the unforgivable sin of cooperating with the Americans. Soviet Communism had an absolute unappeasable hostility that nothing could soften. It contrives to combine boastfulness, ignorance, insecurity and hostility in ample and self-reinforcing measures. This prompted some murmurings of agreement but also hostility from several people. None of the residents exhibited any hostility towards Duvenage, who continues to farm unfenced land running up to their settlement boundary. The displays in these memorials give an impression of mustiness and hostility to innovation. Where hostility and mutual contempt have replaced love and respect, it is in no one's best interests to prolong the agony. One of the problems of our current political scene is that the atmosphere is often of hostility and unpleasantness feeding on themselves. This time there was no media coverage as there was no public hostility or unpleasantness. I suspect this is the real reason for the curiously unreasoning hostility to the film. The reaction by its political opponents to this stand was one of savage and unrelenting hostility. He seems to feel duty-bound to provoke a reaction whether it is outrage, exasperation, outright hostility or unreserved admiration. Until we embrace this belief our culture has little hope of surviving beyond its present state of unrestrained hostility. Carson's hostility to increasing human control over nature is expressed in many different ways by her successors. It breeds an atmosphere of competition which has, over time, become hostility. They seem unable to resist the temptation to express contempt and hostility for those less sophisticated and cultured than themselves. At that time, some argued for containment and deterrence as the remedy for Soviet hostility. Show More Sentences The guard's hard, dangerous eyes, pierced Griffith with venomous hostility from over Shanza's shoulder. His ability was unquestioned, but his brusque and abrasive manner aroused hostility which probably hampered his early career. He's gone back to staring at me, this time with far more vexation and hostility. It is only those who never destroy themselves too much who can retain a hostility to this aspect of Spinozism. After the arrival of the Burmans in the 9th century there was much hostility between them and the indigenous peoples. I think there's plenty of undue hostility towards conservatives in academia, and plenty of vitriol that ought to be condemned. His recent cuttings files have, lest we forget, taken in two splurges of coverage that only heightened the sense of smouldering hostility. Still, the way the insolent and foul-mouthed Tora and the starchily patronizing Selma go from hostility to sisterhood is not without interest. Yet throughout the country campesinos making land claims were met with hostility, threats and violence. The duty surely includes an obligation to investigate suspicious proposals and to reject those animated by hostility to religion. To contact the Metropolitan Police is a frustrating experience of long delays, indifference, obstructiveness and even downright hostility. As I pocketed the bill, still sensing their hostility, I readied my escape plan. Luckily for some of us there is still a healthy amount of hostility and disdain in both of these lovely little cities to balance things out. To add injustice to the stressful wait is a recipe for disaster that can lead to hostility. It basically conveys a sense of political hostility rather than religious rigidity, militancy, conservatism or orthodoxy. Its the expansion of the West German hostility to Ossies now finding echoes in complaints from London tradesmen about Polish plumbers. His hostility at least has the virtue of drawing attention to the centrality of law in Dickens's conception of his novel. Yet zoologists have consistently reacted to these phenomena with a mixture of incredulity, confusion, and even outright hostility. Even worse than the interior feeling of alienation is the outward hostility shown to those with opposing political beliefs. As days and weeks passed, the hostility turned to resentment, which in turn subsided to mild grumpiness. Show More Sentences It's not an act of overt hostility like copy-control, but it's still a bit of a con. These natives must learn to deal honestly with their emotions and be a little less secretive with their feelings of hostility or hurt. There was no hostility towards me, they had no interest in me, all they wanted to do was throw things at the police. People are much more good than bad, I thought, tending more to friendship than hostility. He hadn't said anything nasty to the young man and there was no hostility between them. The decision was made against a backdrop of outright hostility towards Lisa from staff at her station. Public hostility to artworks isn't in itself anything that the artist should be pleased about. The level of hostility we encountered was about what we expected, at first at least. It is time to punish journalists, for creating a climate of racism and hostility toward migration. Such was the anger and hostility among the callers that one official refused to take any more calls. That is why even a kids' film like The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe can provoke such hostility. Frostrup faced the same hostility when she was on the judging panel of the 1999 Booker prize. The rapprochement is remarkable because of the depth of the previous hostility between the two men. Any identity built on hostility to others can change the object of its hostility as easily as a man changes his coat. This climate of hostility affects us all, but most especially impacts those who reside overseas. In fact they will probably go along with it, not wanting to attract further hostility from the military. Thus in spite of any improvements in the early years, there was always public hostility to contend with. He said he has met with frequent hostility and criticism from many locals for the work he is doing. Both, however, had long since exchanged hustle and hostility for control and variation. He faced tremendous ignorance among the clergy and hostility towards the Reformation. Show More Sentences Chao's hostility to politicians stems from what he considers their intrinsic hypocrisy. The Korean War confirmed American hostility to the Chinese People's Republic and support for the regime on Taiwan. Despite wariness and hostility from Illinoisan politicians, he strongly defended his actions. This was not a matter primarily of ill will or, in many cases, overt political hostility. That hostility is triggering a backlash against both existing regimes and the impersonal forces of globalization. Here there is, as I find, no such opposition and certainly no implacable hostility on mother's part. We only feel guilt, hostility, and anger when we measure ourselves and others against impossibly high standards. I have no doubt that her views have been coloured and sharpened by her father's hostility. Ironically, the far left's hostility to EU expansion and reform is shared by Europe's far right. Some of the far-left intelligentsia help to fuel the hostility, at least in academia. Its combativeness, its hostility to everything it perceives as a threat, works against it here. Kraynak's hostility toward skeptical and individualistic liberalism inclines him to overlook the virtues of democracy. Well, I'm firmly for inclusiveness, and firmly against both religious bigotry and hostility to religion. No right-thinking individual can ever be persuaded that hatred and hostility is an answer to anything. Trade agreements always involve painful compromises, which are difficult for politicians to swallow in a climate of hostility. He notes the instructions to governors to conciliate and protect the natives, and argues they did their best to temper the hostility of settlers. Unless the BJP has a change of heart after its Goa conclave, the Prime Minister must expect unmitigated hostility from the main Opposition party. The Agreement is a political concord aimed at bringing to an end over a quarter of a century of bitter internal hostility in Northern Ireland. We also encountered a degree of hostility while carrying out our inspections. Progress in developing integration across the behavioral sciences can be limited by disinterest, isolationism, and even outright hostility. Show More Sentences Alas, in Britain our politicians continue to mine such differences for votes and foster as much inter-class hostility as they can. While his fire was directed mainly at the press, he believes hostility lurks in the government and among the general public. The plan was met by hostility from internet rights activists, poiticians, internet users, internet service providers and interest groups alike. Other party officials say that on the ground there is immense hostility to him and he has few supporters left in the constituency. The one principle on which all three courts could agree was hostility to the International and the defence of monarchy. The second market massacre has fueled hostility to the US-led invasion throughout the region. Every administration, that is, until this one, which from its first days has made clear its inveterate hostility to arms control. According to the media, people nationwide have developed an offbeat mentality characterized by inveterate hostility to the rich. He was the perfect guide to Iran, at once making a mockery of Iranian hostility to the West and fiercely proud of his homeland. Mr. N.T. described himself to Dr. Munt as a very supportive co-parent, who minimized hostility or conflict. Their hostility towards each other, however, was tangible and frequently led to quite irrational behaviour. Our diplomats are instructed to avoid unnecessary irritants and purely rhetorical hostility. Subservience, sexuality, and hostility surfaced in her relationships with her companions, creating countercurrents to trust, support, and love. Rather than addressing the culture and crisis in confidence, you'd propose we crank the hostility up a notch or two? In its hostility towards formalism, Performance art related to other contemporary movements, including Conceptual art and Environmental art. When she could see nothing in them but frosty hostility, he turned and left silently, her hair still gripped firmly in his hands. The parties to contested actions are often at daggers drawn, and the litigious process serves to exacerbate the hostility between them. Puritanism entails hostility to the traditional culture as well as enthusiasm for sermons and predestinarian theology. The reflexive hostility that some of his defenders have shown toward his accuser therefore exhibits no fidelity to the presumption of innocence. Children may also show hostility to the stepparent as a defense mechanism against feelings of hurt and betrayal. Show More Sentences When next he spoke, his voice was tight with hostility, and his teeth were glinting in the darkness. Most of the hostility faced by conservatives is not explicit, and often not conscious or deliberate. So how disappointing, how gloomily predictable, that the proposed new footbridge is being greeted with the usual grumbling hostility. What is puzzling is why the reassertion of a traditional religion should arouse such hostility and denigration. But he was no foolish provoker of hostility and was content to pay up when the toll collectors arrived with weaponry. The patient's mental status was marked by confusion, hostility, paranoia, agitation, and depersonalization. He claims that political parties are dying on their feet and that the election revealed barely disguised hostility to the political process. Yet this was the first time he'd ever encountered such sullen hostility from total strangers. Young people's disengagement from, and even hostility to, politics is well-documented. Copeland evidently regarded such aspirations with deep hostility and responded by entering into fascist political activity for the first time. Both had brought contingents of their supporters who clapped dutifully, but the hostility of large sections of the audience was palpable. Still, the latest meeting was a good contest, not short of lively exchanges, memorable clashes and the occasional burst of blatant hostility. She gave a friendly smile but her eyelids were lowered which was a sign of hostility. Is there any hint of extremism, intransigence, or just downright hostility in your attitude to certain brands? In that period, there was huge public hostility to the conchies, who had refused to fight. She believes women themselves have shown hostility to reversing this trend. Upon her arrival, she encounters open hostility from both her bosses and pupils. These shouldn't be seen through a prism of diplomatic standards and as metaphors for hostility and war. The left-arm fast bowler, extracting much lift, bowled with hostility to contain the batsmen. For many managers, passing judgment on another human being is an awkward exercise at best, a breeding ground for rancor and hostility at worst. Show More Sentences My message is that hostility can be turned to our advantage if we're better, smarter, wiser at the end of the season. There is a politically correct hostility against streaming students and against grade acceleration. The founding principle of human culture in general is exchange, transforming hostility into reciprocity. His attempts to redress the financial crisis and restore discipline soon aroused hostility from the guard. We also tested intercolony hostility between nonmarked workers of two original colonies. Now think of some possible ways to link being gay, engaging in risk behaviors, experiencing hostility and alienation. By the second year, this xenophobic propensity has ripened into expressions of full-blown fear and hostility. Alternately, forest activists may come under scrutiny by some for provoking anger and hostility amongst loggers. This only served to exacerbate landlordism, the impoverishment of the peasantry and the deep-seated hostility to the British occupation. There seemed to be a fair bit of hostility and lap dancing was something you were just expected to do. Some academics eventually renounced their hostility to subject disciplines. The other aspect of her conservatism which seems most unsavoury today is her hostility to feminism. They also required the University to take no action motivated by hostility, animus, or disapproval toward Brady's pregnancy. The animus and hostility and the intensity of feeling evidenced by this act of the accused does not outweigh its prejudicial effect. Parliamentary hostility forced his resignation shortly afterwards, but the king retained him in his counsels. He's legitimating hostility toward judges, however, and portraying the judges as out-of-control power-wielders. And there often is an assumption that it is about hostility or antagonism between men and women. He takes to the bush after attracting the hostility of polite society. He argues that the melancholiac's self-loathing disguises a hostility towards the lost, beloved object, indicating an underlying ambivalence towards it. Military and nuclear preparations add to the existing political hostility. Show More Sentences Although the writings of scientific materialists are filled with hostility toward religious mystery, religious mystery has never acted as a brake upon scientific progress. However, in spite of popular hostility to scroungers, the evidence suggests that the proportion of the poor in modern Britain is similar to that of the past. The disaffection has blossomed into outright hostility to the euro. Supporters of Franco greeted it with undisguised hostility, while those opposed to the regime hailed the movie, clearly responding to its symbolism. We can't disguise hostility towards any religion behind the pretence of liberalism. Such depictions, she argues, enforce underlying societal hostility towards women, through unquestioned acceptance of hostility towards other non-human beings. There is innate hostility to organised labour on the college board. But his hostility to the devil is implacable, utter, and steely. I would not hire someone who reacted with suspicion, hostility and defensiveness to areas of knowledge with which he or she was not already acquainted. This reversal is the subject of Herodotus' detailed account in the long excursus he consecrates in Book 3 to the theme of the hostility between Corinth and her colony Corcyra. Blaming the self may allow the perceived deflection of interpersonal hostility and result in a shield against retributory threat from the external environment. However, the exchange of pleasantries before a ball was kicked offered no indication that there was to be any of the hostility hinted at in the morning papers. From my experience, hostility coming from the Left is a direct response to the sanctimonious, oppressive dogma and bigotry that emanates from the political Right. Both groups are intermingling without any hostility or altercations. He asked again, unperturbedly taking my silence as a sign of hostility. Marijuana also accounts for many mental disorders, including panic attacks, flashbacks, delusions, depersonalisation, depression and uncontrollable hostility. Rotherham had demonstrated outright hostility to his previous efforts to reform school-lunch nutrition. The Rat Man's guilt, arising from these oedipally murderous feelings, led him to deflect his hostility onto himself in the form of suicidal thoughts. Amanda came home to largely welcoming American arms, her case held up as an example of hostility to Americans abroad. The exercise is a delicate one which demands both detailed knowledge of the original texts and insight into the bases of contemporary feminist hostility to them. Show More Sentences Amid the groves of academe, entrenched in the ivy covered tranquil buildings, there lurks more politics, latent hostility and simply bad manners than one can imagine. Pundits love to apportion blame for partisan hostility equally to both sides. Despite his hostility to Marxism, he insisted that the revolution was not a Bolshevik coup but a massive social revolt involving millions of workers and peasants. For instance, when a couple is having trouble, the tension and hostility can bleed into BDSM scenes. Even though all that could be seen of him was his light brown cloak, black scarf and icy ebony hair, the people staring at him had their shoulders tensed in hostility. The chief justice seemed to be arguing that anything short of hostility or blatant evangelism was kosher. At a Vanity Fair photo session, the rivalry between the women spilled into outright hostility when they quarrelled about who should stand where in a group shot. Sadly, however, I was witness to many more instances where dayanim treated women petitioners, as well as their female lawyers, with a disdain bordering on hostility. The new laws will subject them to a raft of compulsory orders which will exacerbate rather than resolve the causes of their resentment and hostility. This in turn has served to fuel hostility from those whose survival depends on lowland pastures and has affected cattle ranching and tourism in wildlife reserves. The majority of the patients experienced a significant improvement in the areas of hostility, uncommunicativeness, uncooperativeness, and repetitive behavior. He delivered this all with a wet smile and a charming crinkle in his eye and only the veins standing out in his neck mirrored the hostility of his words. As regards aggro and hostility, I would imagine that there's plenty who get enough of that from their daily lives, and like to leave it out of their private lives. I suppose there was the inevitable, uncharitable flicker of hostility towards a woman who could, in this day and age, devote herself with such sycophantic subservience to men. That lobby is a curious mixture of interests, reflected in influential sections of the newspaper world, with little in common except their hostility to Europe. Mucus hostility means that the secretion from the neck of the womb is abnormal, and kills the sperm so that they cannot travel through the uterus to the tubes. The party's organic hostility to the working class soon proved of value to the bourgeoisie when it blacklegged on the 1980 general strike, which was broken by the government. There has always been an edge to the relationship but it was never scented with sulphur or cordite or laced with the naked hostility that defines other rivalries. Rilleta shuddered as a sudden howling hostility filled the world. This type of hostility can range from hurtful slander to physical attacks. Show More Sentences Undeterred, Wanda and Ida press on along a road of hostility and dissimulation that will lead to the harrowing end of their quest. Rather it is the social milieu of the physicists of the Weimar period with its Spenglerian hostility to science and causality that is the cause of their beliefs. Usually this is expressed with bitterness if not outright hostility. Their hostility finds the right balance of melodrama and reality, making you feel for them while wishing you could shake them into understanding one another. Despite the meagerness of his military career and his own later hostility to militarism, there is no evidence that he ever opposed IRA actions during the war of independence. It is a piece of Scotland in the heart of the auld enemy, so it might be expected to maintain the traditional hostility towards the English and their team. Yet he described feeling hostility from younger settlers who view him as a sellout. It would be better to say that the Boy Scouts prevailed with a good constitutional argument, supported by weak evidence, craven apprehensions and unthinking hostility. Between 11 BCE and 4 CE, the hostility and suspicion between the Germanic tribes deepened. Macmillan's policy overrode the hostility of white minorities and the Conservative Monday Club. I could sense the hostility lurking behind her polite facade. Immediately after the American Revolution, there was widespread distrust and hostility to anything British, and the common law was no exception. In the 16th century William Shakespeare and his contemporaries lived in London at a time of hostility to the development of the theatre. When the House of Commons attempted to revive the proposal in 1610, it was met with a more open hostility. And soon after he came home, he gathered his army, and came harrowing into England with more hostility than behoved him. This was partly due to the ongoing hostility of the Senate, as mentioned above, but also due to his respect for the senators. This earned him the hostility of the Eastern court, which had not agreed to his elevation. This may have been another reason for Adam of Bremen's apparent hostility in his accounts. The excessive cruelty of Richard's punitive campaigns aroused even more hostility. This contributed to a state of hostility between his young contemporaries and the Lord Chancellor, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey. Show More Sentences A condition of Raleigh's pardon was avoidance of any hostility against Spanish colonies or shipping. It also aroused the hostility of both the United States and Austria, which had lost a member of its royal family. It's not a problem of hostility or antagonism, it's more of a problem of indifference. His proposal that a wing of the latter should be devoted to his sculptures aroused hostility among some artists. During the Gordon Riots in 1780, Burke became a target of hostility and his home was placed under armed guard by the military. The prince, Gruffudd ap Cynan, however, saw fit to make peace with the king rather than engage in open warfare or hostility. It has ditched unilateralism, hostility to the European Community and zeal for nationalisation. Thus, Soviet perceptions of the West left a strong undercurrent of tension and hostility between the Allied powers. Growth in numbers and increasing hostility impressed upon the revival converts a deep sense of their corporate identity. Despite some family hostility the marriage took place on 17 April 1937 at the Church of the Assumption in Warwick Street, London. In Scotland performances were largely limited to performances by visiting actors, who faced hostility from the Kirk. Though FitzGibbon asserts that Thomas's negativity towards Welsh nationalism was fostered by his father's hostility towards the Welsh language. In the 1870s the Amalgamated Association of Miners won support, but was destroyed by employer hostility. The initial reaction by the regular army to the division was one of hostility. The new clubs faced hostility from the rugby union scene, class prejudice and the rise of a more popular professional game, association football. This provoked hostility from certain members of the audience, who were upset at Lostprophets inclusion on such a bill. There was initially much hostility between these Norwegian settlers and their new Danish overlords. Oral histories also suggest potential historical competition and hostility between the Beothuk and Mi'kmaq. It is known that hostility had developed between a faction supporting da Gama and another supporting Cabral. This, added to the broken promise of Charles, only increased hostility towards the king. Show More Sentences Plussing is a technique for enhancing a positive atmosphere in the session, for diminishing hostility, and for raising self-esteem. His hostility to opium stemmed from the effects of opium brought upon his sister Helen. They set about sailing upriver, but their advance faced unremitting hostility from the Mandinka inhabitants upriver. In spite of her hostility towards the Muslims in Andalusia, Isabella developed a taste for Moorish decor and style. During the late 1550s, Ivan developed a hostility toward his advisers, the government, and the boyars. The projectives suggested considerable difficulty with women and a conflict between sexual preoccupation and hostility. To extract supplies from the natives, he employed excessive brutality, thereby provoking their hostility and making supplies harder to get. The rapid influx of blacks disturbed the racial balance within Northern cities, exacerbating hostility between both black and white Northerners. Spain procrastinated until late 1802 in executing the treaty to transfer Louisiana to France, which allowed American hostility to build. He was already known as Cobden's chief ally, and was received in the House of Commons with suspicion and hostility. Now that decades of hostility are past, maybe it is time to reacknowledge the pervasive impact of this path-breaking development. Group leaders say Lazio used deceptive campaign tactics aimed at inciting hatred and hostility towards American Muslims. Such hostility to contact with one's fellow citizens is civic maladroitness, and it's highly unbecoming of a member of a democracy. Unfortunately, the public attitude toward the First Amendment often extends beyond ignorance and apathy to outright hostility. Suspicions have now turned into hostility because of President Recep Tayyip Erdoy-an's divisionary and polarizing rhetoric. Lacking incentives to appoint strict constructionists, his attitude toward judicial conservatives runs between indifference and hostility. If not hostility, there had been frostiness from many spectators to the Scot before that point. He makes this comment with such hostility that he is largely in the role of the smacker, not the smackee, as if his blood is just boiling to smack this obnoxious kid. Outside experts claim North Korea's detainment of its southern neighbours could be an attempt to pressure South Korea or to raise northern hostility towards the country. Swing the rick burner was not only more destructive, but much harder to apprehend than the rioters in this heightened atmosphere of tension and hostility. Show More Sentences Aptekar offers a number of reasons for the public's hostility toward street children, one being that they are treated in the aggregate, impersonalizing their plight. The success that Fenton, Murray and Wood enjoyed because of the high quality of their workmanship attracted the hostility of competitors, Boulton and Watt. Relations with Labour soon became very tense, with Liberal MPs increasingly angered at having to support a Labour Government which treated them which such open hostility. There was much hostility to Lloyd George at these gatherings. The victim of a crime committed under duress may be assumed to be morally innocent, having shown no hostility or aggression towards the defendant. Concepts of liberty, individual rights, equality among men and hostility toward corruption became incorporated as core values of liberal republicanism. Under the influence of the great nobles who had unsuccessfully opposed the election of Godunov, the general discontent was expressed as hostility to him as a usurper. During the Industrial Revolution an intellectual and artistic hostility towards the new industrialisation developed, associated with the Romantic movement. In spite of initial harmony and excitement between the two cultures, difficulties began to arise shortly afterwards, including misunderstanding, bigotry, and even hostility. On the other hand, we must not violate the Free Exercise Clause by demonstrating hostility to religion through the systematic purging of everything with a religious overtone. On cultural grounds, the hostility came forth due to the trade and acquisition of strange foreign goods which stood in contrast to their Confucian ideologies. The Portuguese became the first known Europeans to visit the port of Mombasa from 7 to 13 April 1498, but were met with hostility and soon departed. People from Greenland attempted to set up a colony at Vinland in North America, but abandoned it in the face of hostility from the indigenous residents. Islamism was not the only source of hostility to the government. They were particularly annoyed because of their support of him during his long illness, and thereafter he faced frequent hostility from British orchestras. The context of this hostility was the use of the language by nationalists. The encounter group would meet either before or after regular school hours.... The group would thrash out the problem of racial hostility, and any relevant problems. Attitudes vary from approval through neutrality to outright hostility. He had hoped for a lasting peace with France, and he was afraid that if he took too much, the whole of Europe would unite in envious hostility against Great Britain. Measures are pursuing to prevent or mitigate the usual consequences of such outrages, and with the hope of their succeeding at least to avert general hostility. Show More Sentences It denounced the systematic hostility of the regime toward the church. Some historians, including James Fraser, find that a credible view, but others such as Nick Higham are less convinced of Bede's hostility to Wilfrid. The majority of adherents of the movement, however, remained in the Church of England and, despite hostility in the press and in government, the movement spread. Seemingly staggered by the unanimous hostility of all Members, he left. Cromwell's hostility to the Irish was religious as well as political. David Harris Willson's 1956 biography continued much of this hostility. The few literary sources tell of hostility between incomers and natives. The author covers this legislation in great detail, revealing the fervent hostility to illegal immigrants and unnaturalized Americans during this era. In fact, it does not represent a limit of science but its unlimitedness whereas, the hostility towards science, this yes, is the human limit of such accusation. In Kwangtung there had historically been hostility between the original Cantonese settlers, who alluded to themselves as bendi, and Kejia, who were the last to arrive. In so doing, she exposes herself to hostility and ad feminam attacks. Phylles was still smirking at him, but there was a degree of uncertainty behind her expression, that had perhaps underlain her earlier hostility as well. Examples from Classical Literature Many books were written about the escalation of hostility through the language of political and ideological discourse. It was the first act of hostility and defiance, and it showed that the king was parting with his feuillant friends. On her grave he had vowed eternal hostility to the nobles and the clericals. There is hostility to it still, but mild as compared with that felt by our great-great-grandfathers. There is an air of settled hostility about him that Angers her beyond all words. He flies to the cave of Alecto, and drags out the fiend, commanding her to excite universal hostility against Napoleon. The hostility of the Algonquian tribes seems to have been the cause of the southward migration of the Iroquoian peoples. He then diverted Maximilian from his designs on Castile by humouring his hostility to Venice. He is to be amended, but this is impossible with his mind in a state of hostility. Yet I blame not thee, but thy Sicilian mother, who has fostered this hostility in thee. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of hostility? Words that rhyme with hostility What is the plural of hostility? What is the adverb for hostility? What is the adjective for hostility? What is the noun for hostility? Translations for hostility Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words hostilities hostilely hostile hostie hostessing hostesses hosting hostler Hostler host of hosts host's 9-letter Words Starting With h ho hos host hosti hostil hostili hostilit