In a sign of continuing hostility, Japanese automakers announced Tuesday that sales of Japanese-brand vehicles in China had plummeted in the last month.
Hence Osthryth's murder may have been in revenge for Peada's assassination, though it has also been interpreted more directly as a sign of continuing hostility between Northumbria and Mercia.
But in a reflection of the continuing hostility between the two companies, Mike Luftman, a spokesman for Time Warner, said, "It's very hard to accept that anything Disney says or does in this matter has an innocent reason to it".
The rules may have been tweaked to make it more attractive for private-equity firms to invest in American banks, for example, but Douglas Landy of Allen & Overy, a law firm, expects continuing hostility to the idea of non-banks owning banks.
The most salient change since 1982, when its soldiers were falling in such horrifying numbers at the front and the regime felt it faced an existential challenge, is that Iraq is no longer an enemy to be feared but a dependency to be managed, while Iran and America are in a relationship which combines continuing hostility with some common purposes.
It was the theft of that land that led to the continuing hostility of Arab and Muslim countries, a hostility that will only go away when the Palestinians receive justice.
North Korea sees the first three, at least, as evidence of the outside world's continuing hostility.
Its continuing hostility is partly justified and entirely understandable, notwithstanding the Europeans' record-breaking display of righteous indignation (and that was a record which took some beating).
"The left's continuing hostility to Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular is on gaudy display today," he wrote — a comment that is nearly verbatim to what he says today.
