Tom has a hostile attitude.

Not at all threatening.

Tom was belligerent.

She is hostile to me.

Kitty felt that Anna looked at her with animosity.

Each had to cohabit for a time with a hostile parliament.

If France wants to take the lead on EU relations with Moscow, it must become far more sensitive to eastern and central European fears about Russia.

I had been unaware, he thought, of some extenuating factors for the destruction I witnessed.

Does it consider Russia a powerful partner or a hostile neighbor?

The fall of corrupt Arab dictatorships is being met in Israel with profound skepticism, even hostility.

We also do not know whether the families are supportive or hostile towards their children.

Fast paced social change has occurred, often adversely affecting people s traditional adherence to Catholic teaching and values.

Predictably, pro Kremlin media outlet Life News focused on these hecklers in its coverage of Navalny's trip.

Now it is us the supposedly hostile West and the threat posed by color revolutions to Russia s hard won stability.

Public sentiment in Russia is often hostile towards migrants from Central Asia and the Caucasus.

She was especially hostile to what she saw as the excessive independence of the European Central Bank.

The Chechens could be holding a huge grudge against us , but I have experienced an amazing destruction of stereotypes.

The majority population is very hostile towards Roma, and discrimination against them occurs at every level.

This will occur precisely at a time when Latin America is swerving left, with country after country drifting back to anti American, populist stances Venezuela in 1999, Bolivia last year, perhaps Mexico, Peru, and Nicaragua later this year. If the perception of further US hostility toward Latin America persists, the tilt toward an irresponsible, demagogic left will harden.

If the perception of further US hostility toward Latin America persists, the tilt toward an irresponsible, demagogic left will harden.

I had not known, he thought, that The population is totally hostile Indeed, in the eyes of the Viet Cong, the Viet Cong are the people.

He's also translated a collection of articles about migrant workers, trying to humanize the people customarily treated with great hostility in Russia.

Aristide distrusts the rich because of their support for the coup that ousted him, and because of their traditional intransigence against reform.

Caplin s research evidently did not sit well with FHA officials, who were hostile to Caplin and refused to give him the data he wanted.

Nonetheless, Europe, India, and America are all aware that today s friendship could become tomorrow's alliance if China turns hostile.

Is poor economic development in much of the Middle East and Central Asia the result of cultural practices that are hostile to economic growth?

It is a vision that appeals mainly to those who are suspicious of modernity and hostile toward globalization.

It is also very surprising that the post 2000 Republican administration of George W. Bush has been so hostile to freer trade.

However, another Greenpeace supporter believed that an environmental campaign should not be defined by borders and accused the current criticism of being too antagonistic

And Wang did not defend China s honor by revealing Bo s and Gu s criminality, but aired his stories to hostile foreign forces.

She remained, to the end, hostile to central bank independence, regularly rejecting the advice of her chancellors to allow the Bank of England to control interest rates.

The treaty had produced ten years of peace and highly lucrative trade for American merchants, but Jefferson was still hostile.

But Sarkozy is not quite turning France, long a country hostile to supply side reform, into what many would consider a normal economy.

The shift of the Arab world s mainstream fundamentalist movements to democratic politics is tantamount to a repudiation of the jihadist project and of al Qaeda s apocalyptic strategies. The failure of jihadism is paving the way for a potentially promising restructuring of Islamic politics, but the West either doesn t recognize the changes or is hostile to them.

The colonial powers arbitrary demarcation of borders lumped together in one state diverse ethnic groups which may have been historical antagonists.

All the same, manipulation by powerful countries and the foes of human rights have left the CHR in bad shape.

The failure of jihadism is paving the way for a potentially promising restructuring of Islamic politics, but the West either doesn t recognize the changes or is hostile to them.

Nationalist blogger Egor Prosvirnin pounced on this disconnect, sarcastically writing that any sane nationalist would willingly trade the hostile Chechnya for the ethnically Russian Crimea

As a whole, Europe remains divided on the issue of resettling refugees from war torn countries, and some members of the European Union continue to express hostility to the idea.

He had formerly regarded the new teaching with coldness and even hostility, and had never discussed it with the Countess Lydia Ivanovna (who was carried away by it), but had carefully and silently evaded her challenges.

The majority of Persians are unfamiliar with, and even hostile towards, problems faced by minorities in Iran, and Persian speaking intellectuals have failed to promote a culture of tolerance and respect.

For this reason, Iran should win assurances that a new leadership in Iraq will not be hostile to it, and will seek friendly bilateral relations.

In both countries, the Parliaments were hostile to the Presidents, and the Presidents tried to ride roughshod over the Parliaments, ruling by decree and essentially ignoring hostile parliaments.

On top of that, Moreno Ocampo s request might further alienate the Great Powers (China, Russia, and the United States) that are currently hostile to the ICC.

The Bush administration's new national security strategy, issued in September 2002, identifies the combination of terrorism, rogue states, and weapons of mass destruction as the primary threat confronting America.