| Requiring English for driver's licenses and other state business, he says, is unwelcoming and would shut immigrants out of government services. |
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| The room was bare and unwelcoming, her surroundings felt cold and eerily quiet. |
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| At first I thought Minnesota was going to be some very remote place, unwelcoming and inhospitable. |
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| We had been in New York for about two weeks, living with relatives among their unwelcoming plastic-covered couches and receding smiles. |
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| One night, Finn rocks a bit off and falls flat on his face, unceremoniously uncaught by an unwelcoming mosh pit. |
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| I went to look for you at the unwelcoming, understocked bookstore in the small Midwestern town in which I temporarily resided. |
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| A dressing room following a game is a closed shop, unwelcoming to outsiders. |
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| The social costs of our unwelcoming attitude to migrants may also be considerable. |
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| His gray eyes looked warm enough, but right now as they stared into her eyes, they were cold and unwelcoming. |
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| I could just be buying petrol and people would give you an unwelcoming glance. |
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| However, every glance she shot in his direction was greeted with a cold and unwelcoming stare. |
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| Of course his many opinions are his own and he has every right to express them, but I do object to his chastising English people as unwelcoming. |
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| Although its colours were cool, they were not cold, nor were they intimidating and unwelcoming. |
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| Cold, dark, quiet, unwelcoming, the bar staff are aloof and uninterested in the customers, save the taxi fare! |
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| He is unwelcoming and continues to carouse with his friends while the new student tries to sleep or study. |
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| The bus appeared as it had the day before, driven by the same man and containing the same unwelcoming passengers. |
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| I would have been angry too, should somebody have left me with the impression that I was being unwelcoming to foreigners. |
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| Namibia's barren and unwelcoming coastlines served as a natural deterrent to the ambitions of European explorers. |
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| The station building is very unattractive and unwelcoming to everyone, regular commuters and visitors alike. |
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| But, while this description might seem unwelcoming, students see positive aspects to the studio's location as well. |
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| For this group of men who won't feminise their behaviour, Britain is becoming increasingly unwelcoming. |
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| Oddly enough, both restaurants are hidden off a main street, forcing the dining party to boldly walk through a small, rather unwelcoming alley. |
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| I have never visited a country more unwelcoming to foreigners than England, probably the most xenophobic one in the European Union. |
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| He was a notorious parasite and schnorrer, but few of his hosts were overtly unwelcoming, since he could be ingeniously vindictive in print, even when seeming to offer praise. |
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| It is not our tradition to be unwelcoming towards our fellow Inuit. |
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| All this makes the pluralism of the modern world a scary, unwelcoming place. |
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| In private, ministers are desperate to promote growth, and fret about complaints that Britain is unwelcoming to business. |
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| This time around, a question asking immigrants how long they intend to remain has been criticised for sounding unwelcoming. |
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| Some parents have emerged as a relatively new group of harassers who are making sport environments unwelcoming and, in some cases, unsafe. |
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| Coaches are in a unique and powerful position to make sport experiences either welcoming and safe or unwelcoming and unsafe for participants. |
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| In some ethnically or religiously segregated societies, they may have fled to an unwelcoming region. |
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| This kind of belligerent attitude will create a hostile and unwelcoming environment for the returnee as well as tension in your department. |
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| This would be an unwelcoming place to live in at the best of times. |
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| Sasha Sykes's country-inspired contemporary furniture is the perfect choice for anyone put off by the unwelcoming minimalism of most modern design. |
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| When a vicar asks a young chap why he does not like where he lives, he replies the people are unfriendly and the town is a dirty and unwelcoming place. |
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| Let's keep the unattractive, empty warehouses on the river front and make the city as unwelcoming as possible to stop the invasion of these pesky incomers. |
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| She, who lives in Longcroft Road, says she is now forced to make long detours to visit friends on the other side of town, sometimes along dark and unwelcoming back roads. |
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| Instead she has now invested in some dog treats so Tip will be tucking into them this Yuletide in a home that is a world away from the unwelcoming place where he began life. |
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| The Merseyway shopping centre, which was built over the River Mersey in the 1960s, and the large unwelcoming bus station are both likely to be substantially revamped. |
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| Kim and her husband have hopped from one suburb in western Sydney to another, leaving behind neighbourhoods which they see as unsafe or unwelcoming. |
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| Belief remains that, despite the unwelcoming financial climate, someone will pick up this club and invest their time and money in giving it some sort of life. |
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| It details every stage in the painstaking process of lifting a damaged, nuclear-armed submarine off the seabed in one of the most unwelcoming stretches of water in the world. |
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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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| He says time and again that it is not wrong to fear a young black man walking towards you with a North Face jacket, Timberland boots and an unwelcoming expression. |
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| The owners of this property have had their peace of mind destroyed and will now be very, very unwelcoming of strangers who just happen on the property. |
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| But the real gems are those staffed by the indifferent and unwelcoming. |
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| A cold, unwelcoming breeze brushed strands of dark hair from my face. |
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| They can be put off by the long waits, distance to health facilities or unwelcoming services, or they may feel too ashamed to ask for the money to cover the cost of their visit. |
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| One problem is that Malawi seems unwelcoming to foreign investment. |
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| Since October 1992, successive Governments have been faced with tackling this legacy and preparing the country to face the challenges of the future in an unwelcoming global climate. |
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| Indeed, some difficulties in learning are created as a direct result of misunderstanding the child, and an unwelcoming school system or poor teaching. |
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| The pedestrian underpass is unwelcoming, and disconnected from the street. |
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| Are these sectors still seen as male-dominated and unwelcoming to women? |
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| My architectural tastes cover a broad church but I've never seen anything so cold, unwelcoming and inappropriate. |
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| The vast crusade ground, a reclaimed swamp, was inundated from days of rain resulting in acres of soggy ground and deep mud holes that made the sodden field inhospitable and unwelcoming. |
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| A good deal of concern was expressed surrounding the common experience of Roma parents and children in terms of the unwelcoming ethos of many schools and the impoverished learning environments offered. |
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| Second, disability is not considered as a medical condition as such, but rather as a result of the interaction between negative attitudes or an unwelcoming environment with the condition of particular persons. |
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| As the official languages bill was being debated in Parliament, a young Francophone arriving in Ottawa would have found an unwelcoming city with little or no opportunities for development to match his or her ambitions. |
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| The townspeople were unwelcoming, making little effort to make the newcomer feel welcome. |
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| This approach is both practical and supportive for those clients in particular who have found traditional learning contexts intimidating or unwelcoming. |
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| The objective of this priority focuses on the regeneration of urban, rural and border areas that appear derelict, segregated, under-used, threatening or unwelcoming. |
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| Migration rules are off-putting and the political rhetoric unwelcoming. |
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| Historically their part of Nuristan been unwelcoming to any and all outside influences, foreign or Afghan. This development appears to have been driven inadvertently by the Taliban, at least in part. |
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| It is my assessment that not doing so could lead to increased tension in Kosovo, including among Kosovo communities, and would contribute to an unwelcoming environment for the international civil presence. |
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