In the late 1770s a rage for stripes is found among the Americanophiles in France and in other countries hostile to England. |
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All the depicted vegetation is highly resilient and adaptable to the most hostile surroundings. |
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Individual water opossums are solitary and hostile toward others of their species, except during mating times. |
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Could it be that women have been acculturated to avoid math and science as potentially hostile fields? |
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Beautiful and well-bred, she suffered the hostile treatment of critics who believed that as a painter she must be a woman of easy virtue. |
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The battle for control of Novar, the industrial conglomerate, has all the makings of a highly charged hostile bid war. |
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She pulled it off in the quagmire at Loch Lomond, but it will certainly be a tougher proposition under the hostile glare of Minneapolis. |
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The action helped to galvanize an image among Anglos of Mexico as a power hostile to their interests. |
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Of all the problems predicted for Rangers in Galatasaray's hostile bear pit, defenders falling asleep at crucial moments was not among them. |
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In Iraq, our manned and unmanned aircraft continue to operate successfully in the hostile desert environment. |
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Without a hostile Iraq towering over it, Jordan's pro-Western Hashemite monarchy would likely come into full bloom. |
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Here he was a successful president with one hand tied behind his back, always under assault by a hostile Congress and the nutcase right. |
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Could Mann's love of obscure references and epic sweep have prompted such hostile treatment? |
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This was unsatisfactory because the external object is something foreign or hostile to self-consciousness. |
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By 1933 it numbered some two million, double the size of the army, which was hostile to them. |
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The craft did not make a hostile move toward the science vessel, but did not respond to hails. |
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The bottom waters of these lagoons were probably stagnant and provided an environment hostile to life. |
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The Guarani caciques exchanged women to formalize their alliance with the Spanish against the hostile peoples of the Chaco. |
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The Inuit, likely from past experience with Norse seamen and Basque fishermen, would not initially assume hostile intent and came to trade. |
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A little hope is a powerful thing, especially to a first-time buyer in a hostile market. |
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The explosion responds with bursts of smoke and hostile body language an I run out the door. |
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There is a distinction being made between hostile and non-hostile casualties with the latter going under-reported. |
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Eventually Stalin began trading with non-communist countries of western Europe, although he continued to be hostile to Germany. |
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If he feels he's facing an uninterested or hostile audience, he will be vague, non-committal and withdrawn. |
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They lived in the overpopulated buffer zone between two hostile neighbours, Scotland and England, where employment and farmland were limited. |
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He remembered many times catching his son reading stories about futuristic spacemen battling hostile aliens. |
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An alarm sounded, warning screens blinked and to Petrov's horror a computer map showed the hostile launch of a US nuclear warhead. |
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His comments on Monday may have been sops to a hostile and left leaning audience. |
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Space is a hostile environment due to solar radiation, particle impacts and the intense cold of deep space. |
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So we were braced for hostile reactions, but it all went off pretty smoothly. |
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Blaming what it said were hostile U.S. policies, North Korea boycotted a meeting that was to have been held in September. |
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In fact, you could argue that sanctions make rogue nations more hostile and more dangerous. |
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The area between Eagle Lake and Lake of the Woods was a hostile terrain of innumerable lakes, rocky outcroppings and bottomless muskegs. |
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Turner continued leading his men over three lines of hostile trenches, cleaning up each one as they advanced. |
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An unreasoningly hostile attitude also began to show itself in discussions by military writers. |
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The courts have consistently held that a hostile environment can include racial slurs and bigotry against all sorts of people. |
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By fostering a work environment that is overtly misandrist and hostile to male employees they create discrimination against men. |
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I'm so confident that such sentences are ungrammatical that I would be prepared to lecture it to a hostile audience. |
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The military-industrial complex doesn't want publication of news hostile to its enablers in the government. |
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Unfortunately, those who did return found the locals severely hostile and scarpered quickly. |
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Their language is formal and even when they are hostile to each other, manners and politeness reign. |
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They were now facing a very uncertain future, consigned to the tender mercies of a new and hostile regime. |
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When confronted with the reality of a shabby and hostile England unlike the England of her dreams, she is utterly horrified. |
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The conquistador succeeded in making allies of the Totonacs, who were hostile towards the Aztecs. |
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He was immediately captured by hostile forces and taken to a prison camp where he was interrogated and severely tortured. |
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Areas once graced by desert mariposa tulip, Rocky Mountain bee plant, prickly poppy and evening primrose were invaded by the hostile horehound. |
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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. |
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Those belonging to the orthodox school of thought view India as being unconditionally hostile to Pakistan. |
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I agree that MRAs have a valid case that current Western society is hostile to men, their historical domination of institutions notwithstanding. |
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Copyright law is unambiguously hostile to people who swap music files over the Internet. |
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She successfully destroyed two dozen hostile ghosts with ultrasonic sound waves and laser grids. |
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It should be mentioned, however, that this was only a single-blind test, with a subject predisposed to be hostile to phrenology. |
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Once a UAV identified a target, participants labeled it as hostile or friendly, based on a color-coded system. |
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Or do we want them to emerge as resentful rivals in a world permanently divided into hostile trading blocs? |
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The Second World War began with Germany's attack on Poland in 1939 and ended with the continent's division into two hostile blocs. |
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This fabricated nonsense is just the type of untruth that paints the image of our office as being a moralistically hostile environment. |
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He said that despite hostile desert conditions, morale among the servicemen was high. |
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And yet the building is a monstrosity, a gaping hole in the middle of town, hostile to the needs of its neighbors and inhabitants alike. |
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Do not target those who are coming up behind you and are blamelessly attempting to forge careers in an increasingly hostile environment. |
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The historical sources are clear that the relationship was hostile and that negotiation was by the sword. |
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This is a recipe for a resentful, suspicious, self-interested, and racially hostile polity. |
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Call it battle fatigue, combat trauma, or the stress of being the hunted instead of being the hunter in a hostile terrain. |
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By now, his hostile rhetoric has carried him beyond the self-discipline of consistency, and he becomes merely quarrelsome and captious. |
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They will remain hostile to any political party that seems to disdain their convictions. |
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Gradually, his neighbors become increasingly hostile and the small talk takes on an undercurrent of meanness. |
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Swamp life doesn't sound necessarily threatening or hostile as much as just plain miserable. |
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It is our tank sections and infantry squads that invariably make contact with hostile forces, not companies or battalions. |
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Firms massaged their profit figures upwards so as to discourage hostile takeover bids. |
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The emergency rations consumed, we were marooned, starving in a hostile land. |
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A platoon of sci-fi marines are dropped into hostile territory, seething with aliens, and they go ballistic. |
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Men who are recently out of the army or marines are favored to play hostile gunmen. |
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Too many hostile journalists have already consigned him to the ranks of the awkward squad. |
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As fascinating and magical as this world is, it's filled to the brim with hostile beasts and hidden dangers. |
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They might gain access to our systems and tamper with data through computer network attacks or exploit it for hostile purposes. |
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He had won a hostile takeover of the retail empire created by the legendary Charles Clore. |
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Sidewinder is an all-aspect short-range missile with maximum speed over Mach 2, for defence against hostile aircraft. |
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This consisted of carefully organized caravans whose leaders spoke Masai and had developed wide contacts among this otherwise hostile people. |
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The hostile environment of space poses a special challenge to the wellbeing of astronauts. |
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A premature attack on Mountjoy's forces resulted in a rout by his cavalry and a long retreat back to Ulster through a hostile countryside. |
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During this hostile exchange, Nageku loitered near the buffet table and helped himself to some wine. |
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Taken in the round, this project has shown that sustainable farming really can work, even in the most hostile conditions. |
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What are the biggest problems with keeping these troops on these extended rotations in very hostile environments? |
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For in order to conquer the hostile environment of the llanos, the settlers had to strain their imagination and creative skills to their limits. |
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I had a general feeling that she hated me, that she was hostile towards me only because of my Romany origins. |
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Invited to address a hostile police conference in Bournemouth, the Home Secretary was widely perceived to be walking into the lion's den. |
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Factions within the party were hostile to antiquated academic privileges and promoted new forms of applied scientific research and practice. |
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There had been some hostile questions from the floor, but in the end there was loud applause at the outcome. |
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Are hostile reactions to change a sign that cultural adaptation is already under way? |
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He rose above that controversy while his colleagues at Cambridge University were divided into hostile camps. |
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The FBI placed an undercover agent in a ring of anti-government anarchists who called themselves DOI, Day of Inclement or hostile weather. |
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The risk now is that the mutually hostile Sunni and Shiite factions might come together in an anti-American alliance. |
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Anti-intellectuals often are distrustful of science and hostile to its practitioners. |
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It reflects a wider debate, fanned by bitterly hostile coverage of the tube strikes in much of the media. |
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Such a hostile chemical environment would likely prove lethal to all known microbes. |
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The other two cats aren't openly hostile to her, but they seem to want to antagonize her. |
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After trucks fought their way through hostile towns to resupply us, I found myself hoarding rations like a shipwreck survivor. |
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She was a tough Aussie laywoman who persevered in faith over the persecution of her hostile bishop. |
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In a world that was hostile to their practices and beliefs, the Anacreontic tradition will have given them a more sympathetic imaginary home. |
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Gary Sinise plays a government scientist who may or may not be a replicant planted by a hostile alien race. |
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Bacon was capable of offering independent advice and increasingly hostile towards Mary, queen of Scots. |
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Over coffee and Cointreau, the cook resumed her reminiscences of preparing edible food under hostile conditions. |
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The second notion emphasises the traits that split America into hostile ethnic laagers and deny its essential multiculturalism. |
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The government had reason to view him as a representative of vicious, belligerent forces hostile to the West. |
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Many begin to slip into unspoken worrit about those people, who'd been so hostile to our jests earlier on. |
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In the following year, threatened by famine and hostile Sioux, they recrossed the river to plant corn. |
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Rather, suffering and martyrdom are consequences of faithful witness in a hostile world. |
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Such criticisms initially got a hostile reception from parliamentary and government officials, but attitudes have slowly changed. |
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Similarly, refugee centres met with a hostile reception initially but we now have these facilities in almost every county in Ireland. |
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That he will once again be subjected to a hostile reception in Leith proves that this is not the case. |
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The latest proposals for the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy were given a hostile reception by the Irish farm lobby yesterday. |
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The one thing that they can be assured of is a hostile reception from the Afrikaner support base that still exists in Bloemfontein. |
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It's back to the drawing board for a road project following a hostile reception at a public meeting. |
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The Church was shocked by the hostile press treatment it received following a campaign to save the home. |
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He handled some predictably hostile and downright rude remarks with very solid rebuttals and a refusal to take insults. |
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To the kibbutznik, the story is one of heroic volunteers establishing themselves in the face of a hostile population. |
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The questions even became a shade less hostile as his new air of poise impressed the panel. |
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Well, it's not as if he automatically wilts in front of hostile New York crowds. |
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The 1940 statement readdressed the ideals of the 1915 declaration, but appeared less hostile to religious institutions. |
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But if you're bringing it to a hostile audience, you have to be sure you're bringing your A game. |
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Later series saw the women marched through hostile jungle to a second camp. |
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When these working-class allies tried to send a delegation to the capital, hostile railway workers shunted their train into a siding and left them stranded. |
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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. |
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They were alone and unarmed in hostile territory without even having the reassurance of radio communications. |
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He was an alleged extortion victim of Bulger, who had engaged in a hostile takeover of a liquor store that Rakes once owned. |
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All of this happened while he endured endless taunting and baiting by racist opponents and hostile crowds and frigid responses from some of his own teammates. |
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However, despite their physiological ability to cover large distances, it may be that scout bees of migrating swarms are disinclined to cross hostile habitat. |
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Esther and Mordecai confront a hostile host society and an implacable bureaucracy. |
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And here is where the beleaguered administration may catch a break from this hostile court. |
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Well, this conversation comes from a hostile point of view where I have to answer for my belief system. |
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By contrast, a gun will allow a pilot to attack hostile forces that are less than 300 feet from friendly ground forces. |
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And if boardroom fashion can be a game of strategic intimidation, then these clothes are akin to a hostile takeover. |
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The academic field is famously hostile to believers and Aslan has bucked that worldview. |
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Even the most hostile versions of his family story can't obscure the fact that he walked out on five children who struggled to survive without him. |
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It was particularly significant that Milanese business interests, which had been hostile to Crispi's Abyssinian venture during the 1890s, now backed colonial expansion. |
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The commune refused to be disbanded and, after hints from Robespierre at the Jacobins, tried to have a number of hostile deputies and ministers arrested. |
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Religious liberty, Jefferson argued, denies the majority any right to coerce a dissenting minority, even one hostile to religion. |
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Our mission was to look for hostile radars as they became active. |
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Furthermore there is the issue of his aggression and hostile behaviour. |
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In the classroom and at work, people speak and write as if a hostile lawyer were about to cross-examine them. |
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Now he is his own man, hardened and scarred by backbench rebellions, geopolitical scraps and a hostile media firing on him from both left and right. |
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Unfortunately the people of Tologa Bay, on New Zealand's North Island, thought he had come to close the school and gave him a hostile reception until the truth emerged. |
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She contends that women winnow competing ideas less through hostile scrutiny than by getting inside another's mind, and often by way of friendly conversation. |
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Nemeth was probably being taken to Tardonia, either to be ransomed or more likely to be unpleasantly executed, body charred and features withered by hostile magic. |
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It includes changing the climate of an institution from one that is hostile and alienating for members of particular groups to one that is sensitive and welcoming. |
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Andre Torres, the former editor of scratch Magazine, which began as an imprint of XXL, remembers similar hostile situations. |
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Would-be entertainers with an almost hallucinatory shortage of talent would enact their dismal showbiz fantasies before an audience of hostile yahoos. |
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Free French officers were landed by air and boat to negotiate the port's peaceful transfer, but they received a hostile response as did an advance landing party. |
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Twelve had undergone lasting personality change, leaving them hostile and mistrustful, socially withdrawn and plagued by feelings of emptiness and hopelessness. |
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Many draft resisters, conscientious objectors and protesters had been fined or gaoled, while soldiers sometimes met a hostile reception on their return home. |
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De Merode is hundreds of miles from his wife and daughters, encircled by hostile forces, a target on the back of his uniform. |
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Most of the writing was done by Lincoln enthusiast Jesse Weik, and the reception was mixed at best and downright hostile at worst. |
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It excludes children and families of minority faiths and beliefs and creates a hostile environment for them. |
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We recognize that funding is but one indicator of support, but the confluence of events described above has created a hostile environment for the LGBTI community. |
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They search out hotel rooms least exposed to hostile fire or ricochets. |
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Lin has led the customer review section with a five-star but hostile review of January 22 that was pages long. |
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The president is considered antibusiness and hostile to the free enterprise system. |
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Such suspicions will only be confirmed by Gibson's idiosyncratic logorrhea in interviews before a hostile press which can and will use everything he says against him. |
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Under the pressure of tight margins, hostile takeovers and cutthroat rivalry, air safety has been increasingly sacrificed to the requirements of profit and the markets. |
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The firm's advisers were at pains to claim that this was not a hostile move, but it is evident that the 810p per share price is not enough to satisfy investors. |
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So why do we hear so many professors describe their pupils as hostile to learning, with a leavening of indolence? |
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It's a question that bedevils news managers, as journalists continue to work in danger zones where hostile fire, kidnapping, thievery, and muggings are part of a day's work. |
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A white knight is a person who is asked to acquire a company as an alternative to an unwanted black knight, who is the investor initiating a hostile takeover bid. |
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This unprecedentedly hostile verdict is a sign that a dictatorship has taken power in Ukraine. |
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Poll after poll shows that Republicans believe, to a far greater degree than Democrats, that the msm is hostile toward their side. |
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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. |
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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. |
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According to Erikson, children who fail to develop a basic sense of trust will view the world as hostile and people as undependable in later life. |
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Plus, the hostile climate for bodyboarders over the age of 20, and the relatively dormant state of bodyboards, is providing fuel for the redeveloping interest in surf mats. |
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They are, as far as anyone can tell, bitterly hostile to the oligarchs, believing them to be the undeserving beneficiaries of resources that belong to the nation. |
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To judge from some of the wildly hostile remarks from the Scottish political classes, it would seem this slothful water utility is regarded as a sacred object. |
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Once free, it's entirely likely the King of the Jungle and his trusty herd of elephants will save the day by laying a smackdown on the hostile tribe. |
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Nontraditional faculty may have to work in a chilly or a downright hostile climate if some of their departmental colleagues are unwelcoming or uncomfortable around them. |
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The situation within the company is described as a complete breakdown in the relationship between the parties, a deadlock and a hostile environment. |
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The convoy then made several navigational errors, which required the slow, lumbering vehicles to make two U-turns in the middle of hostile territory. |
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Hooligans are not reformed by Mozart, so much as driven away by a noise that is as alien and hostile to their world as whale song to a camel herd. |
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But if Othello dies a deluded and confused figure, would that not rob him of all dignity and nobility, turning him into the pitiful victim of a vicious, hostile society? |
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The problem was that the head-high buffalo grass that thrived in the thin topsoil had slowly adapted to its deceptively hostile environment over several thousand years. |
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It was the same fight as it had been nearly fifteen hundred years before, only they were less hostile and weren't spitting their words out carelessly. |
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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. |
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Physicists in the US claim to have seen nuclear fusion in a table-top experiment but their work has met with a hostile reaction from other researchers. |
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The nephew and the bodyguards appear to have realized that they were in hostile territory, and tried to withdraw, but the effort was met with a hail of bullets. |
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Despite an environmentally hostile administration and a country preoccupied with the threat of war and terrorism, some key threats to the environment were staved off. |
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What is a hostile area for some is a lush and steamy paradise for others. |
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Despite the rise of Facebook, the founder of Netscape says risk-averse public markets are hostile to technology startups. |
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These banquets, where a spartan meal set the stage for political harangues masquerading as toasts, concentrated the diffuse energies hostile to Louis-Philippe's politics. |
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Deprived of a nation of their own, they have lived for centuries as a harassed minority, trapped in the border regions of hostile countries that frequently become war zones. |
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Rupert Murdoch has a long history of successfully deflecting hostile fire about his influence on the news business. |
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The creation of belief systems provided answers to questions of existence and reinforced a crucial sense of security in hostile physical and social environments. |
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Local legends invariably eulogize a small band of the faithful who arrive as torch-bearers of the faith in the hostile terrain and face the resistance of the infidel populace. |
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But this is an Italy that has grown significantly more hostile to tax avoidance. |
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Neufeld contends that peer orientation undermines family cohesion, poisons the school atmosphere and fosters an aggressively hostile and sexualized youth culture. |
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He is only interested in the truth and along the way comes up against bent cops, the mob and an extremely hostile family, who are hiding the truth from their own. |
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On the Allied side it became a synonym for treasonable or hostile activity, so that to call people collaborators was to express strong disapproval for their actions. |
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Perhaps the only escape from the inevitable Big Rip would be to create some extra-dimensional wormhole passage to a universe with less hostile parameters. |
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Pishing, the use of certain sibilant sounds to attract hidden birds, works because it triggers the level of hostile curiosity that presages mobbing. |
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It is in waters that can be very hostile and is 3,000m below the seabed which, itself, is at a depth of 350 metres making recovery of the gas a difficult and expensive task. |
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Whatever the cause, whether hostile fire or mishap or anything else, the tragic result was the same. |
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Austria passed a similar law in 1933 by which it could denaturalize any citizen who participated in a hostile action against the state. |
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As if the hostile takeover weren't enough, to add insult to injury they scrapped ninety percent of our products and replaced them with their own. |
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The camel is specially adapted to its hostile desert habitat. |
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The busy hostile world outside is mystifying and a little unreal. |
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In France, the government was hostile and the philosophes fought against its censorship, sometimes being imprisoned or hounded into exile. |
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Sometimes, it is not mutual, but rather refers to a prolonged series of hostile acts waged by one person against another without reciprocation. |
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He took a hostile view of those historians who stress the workings of chance and contingency in the workings of history. |
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This was the first time that hostile forces had entered Italy since 101 BC, when Gaius Marius defeated the Cimbri and Teutones. |
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Simpson outboxed him over 10 rounds to take the vacant British Masters cruiserweight title and silence a hostile crowd. |
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Domitian was apparently unable to gain support among the aristocracy, despite attempts to appease hostile factions with consular appointments. |
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A more useful definition of cyberwar is any hostile action in cyberspace that amplifies or is equivalent in effect to major physical violence. |
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Vogts announced his resignation in 2004, blaming the hostile media for his departure. |
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Whether this was a genuine attempt to reconcile with hostile factions in the Senate cannot be ascertained. |
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If Wolfe could not capture the city he would likely be forced to withdraw in the face of the hostile Canadian winter. |
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The discomfort could have created a more hostile environment, but it did not. |
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Forced by a hostile crowd to flee Mozambique, da Gama departed the harbor, firing his cannons into the city in retaliation. |
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Intertidal organisms experience a highly variable and often hostile environment, and have adapted to cope with and even exploit these conditions. |
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A new pack is usually founded by an unrelated dispersing male and female, travelling together in search of an area devoid of other hostile packs. |
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The nativists of the Know-Nothing movement appear simply as a malign force hostile to the Germans. |
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Individuals within coteries are friendly with each other, but hostile towards outsiders. |
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This is required to achieve acceptable performance in hostile environments involving weather, terrain, and electronic countermeasures. |
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Close patrol of hostile ports, in order to prevent naval forces from putting to sea, is also referred to as a blockade. |
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We're about to destroy an entire hostile army and go all the way from here to the German border. |
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Among the challenges faced by the wagon route operators were crossing rivers, mountains and hostile Native Americans. |
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Submarines could carry cargo through hostile waters or act as supply vessels for other submarines. |
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Coyotes have larger canine teeth and are generally more practised in hostile encounters. |
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Saudi Arabia remained hostile to any form of political and social reform in Yemen and continued to provide financial support for tribal elites. |
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Henry tried to use his royal authority leniently, hoping to appease the more hostile barons and maintain peace in England. |
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A faction hostile to Macleod pursued the charges in church courts, to no avail. |
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The security that the wall gave from possibly hostile tribes to the north probably allowed the foundation of a settlement. |
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Psychotherapists who treat women as equals have also seen recognizing bodies as a hostile male act. |
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The two Koreas agreed to closely cooperate in efforts to put an end to hostile military relations and ensure detente on the Korean Peninsula. |
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All such people enjoy full support and patronization from the neighboring hostile countries particularly from India. |
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The remote and hostile Antarctic region is home to 8,800 recorded species, with moss animals, sponges and small crustaceans richly represented. |
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And she went right down into a mine area, between two hostile sides. |
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A sharp, hostile feeling, the result of a brusque maneuver on the part of his pedicurist, had cut short his flight of fancy. |
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Tundra climates as a rule are hostile to woody vegetation even where the winters are comparatively mild by polar standards, as in Iceland. |
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Had World War II lasted longer, we might have seen swarms of Mixmasters in hostile skies. |
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One was because many people remained hostile to the idea of mass education. |
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According to tradition, he was supposedly commanded by Allah to convey this message to the people, and to be patient with those hostile to it. |
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Chaplin's silent films typically follow the Tramp's efforts to survive in a hostile world. |
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Contrary to Howe's more hostile critics, however, there were strategic factors at play which impeded aggressive action. |
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Charles' later years were marked by hostile relations with his heir, Louis, who demanded real power to accompany his position as the Dauphin. |
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Between hostile states, the border zone can be heavily militarized with mine fields, barbed wire and watchtowers. |
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As the paper is opposed to the EU it has referred to foreign leaders who it deemed hostile to the UK in unflattering terms. |
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It received a hostile critical reception, which caused Saatchi to speak out angrily against the critics. |
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The hostile sorcerer incants his spell whilst placing his foot on a grave in the cemetery of the feast hamlet. |
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Due to the hostile winters, BATUS conducts training from May to October each year. |
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Mesoamericans viewed the world as hostile and governed by unpredictable deities. |
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Recurring themes in his operas include the struggle of an outsider against a hostile society and the corruption of innocence. |
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After the Second World War the Church became increasingly liberal in attitude and moved away from hostile attitudes. |
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What began as a hostile merger would end in a full partnership in the most powerful going concern in the world. |
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The climate became so hostile for artists and art associated with modernism and abstraction that many left for the Americas. |
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Corporate raider Carl Icahn launched a hostile takeover of the steel giant in late 1986 in the midst of the work stoppage. |
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Many of those who were hostile to the materialist production idea of art left Russia. |
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His hostile interactions with them distressed him to the point of contemplating suicide. |
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It was accompanied by an avalanche of press criticism, all of it intensely hostile to Asquith. |
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The people in the borderlands had to raise local militias to protect themselves from hostile Native Americans. |
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With communism no longer the threat it once was, once hostile relations in the 1950s between the Philippines and China have improved greatly. |
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Dependants were not allowed to follow an army on the march into hostile territory. |
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Guru Arjan was captured by Mughal authorities who were suspicious and hostile to the religious order he was developing. |
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When Hofmann left the city, opposition from pastors hostile to the Reformation broke down. |
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Teixeira da Mota points to the abduction of the woman on the bank may have alerted the river peoples to the hostile intentions of the Portuguese. |
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Making contact with local rebels who were hostile to the Sicilian crown, Greek forces quickly overran the coastlands and began striking inland. |
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They were widely criticized as creating a hostile atmosphere for members of ethnic minority groups. |
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He conquered the far larger principality of Novgorod to the north, which had been allied to the hostile Lithuanians. |
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During the leveraged buyout boom of the early 1980s, many corporations were the targets of hostile takeovers. |
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He said the Plan was hostile to the Soviet Union, a subsidy for American exporters, and sure to polarize the world between East and West. |
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Officials were aware of the risk of the small number of colonists in hostile territory. |
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In the following years, those supporting Montfort and those supporting the king grew more hostile to each other. |
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Some Jamaicans are hostile towards LGBT and intersex people, and there have been reported cases of mob attacks against gay people. |
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Churchill was noted at the time for being particularly hostile to socialism. |
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Hitler viewed the new regime as hostile and immediately decided to eliminate it. |
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During this time, Wellesley was greeted by a hostile reaction from the crowds at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. |
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A number of nationalists opposed intervention, particularly within states that the nationalists were hostile to. |
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The demutualization trend and other industries struggling through hostile takeovers, however, clearly threaten this goal. |
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For most people, hostile takeovers, junk bonds and ESOP leveraged buyouts seem largely a relic of another age. |
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He knew about command from the ground up, about the importance of logistics, about campaigning in a hostile environment. |
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Though faced with a hostile majority in Parliament, Pitt was able to solidify his position in a few months' time. |
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Jefferson became president in 1801, but was hostile to Napoleon as a dictator and emperor. |
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Throw in a hostile witness or two and legal analysts almost jump from their chairs with glee. |
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Some Highland chieftains therefore viewed Jacobitism as a means of resisting hostile government intrusion into their territories. |
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Finding little fur and hostile natives in 1642 or 43 they built a koch and sailed down the Indigirka to the sea. |
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When a hostile witness is answering a question and you do not believe a word he or she is saying, do not snicker and look away. |
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Obviously, Dusseldorp was a hostile witness, and the details of his description of Bergerus's exorcisms cannot be confirmed. |
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Therefore, during the first three months of 1688, hundreds of those who gave hostile replies to the three questions asked were dismissed. |
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The new English Parliament, which met in March of the same year, was quite hostile to Charles. |
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Without these initiatives to stamp out queer-bashing, the military will remain a hostile institution. |
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Danby had publicly professed that he was hostile to France, but had reservedly agreed to abide by Charles's wishes. |
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At that time the Romans found the heights over the trail occupied by three hostile Gallic tribes. |
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The new Parliament proved even more hostile to Charles than its predecessor. |
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Before reaching the coast of Peru, Drake visited Mocha Island, where he was seriously injured by hostile Mapuche. |
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Republicans, at first hostile to empire, only became supportive when Germany started to build her own colonial empire. |
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When he was called as a prosecution witness at the criminal trial, Kaelin was declared a hostile witness. |
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The Dutch found the climate hostile and abandoned the island after several further decades. |
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In the face of winter and hostile tribes, the consul decided to return to Italy and await the arrival of Hannibal as he descended from the Alps. |
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My remarks have sometimes been interpreted as implying that I am hostile to the mathematization of economic theory. |
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When news of the rebellion reached him, Suetonius hurried along Watling Street through hostile territory to Londinium. |
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Nevertheless, many in the Senate remained hostile to Claudius, and many plots were made on his life. |
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His hostile action had raised the alarm among the populations around Bezeguiche bay. |
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Microsoft may go hostile in its bid for Yahoo as soon as Friday, according to a published report. |
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Can we generalize about gender without attracting hostile attention? |
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The Bill was then sent up to the House of Lords, a majority in which was known to be hostile to it. |
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