Sentence examples for a few hostile from inspiring English sources

After a few hostile clashes, the law of November 8, 392, proscribed the pagan religion.

He knew he might elicit more than a few hostile glances.

Apart from a few hostile critics and the usual rough-and-tumble of a busy conductor's life, Mahler found the music scene in New York relatively benign after the poisonous musical intrigues he had endured in Vienna.

If you spend all your time trying to preserve that, then how cool can you possibly be?" Aside from a few hostile comments, new parents say the neighborhood has a friendly, small-town feeling that seemed to increase when they had their babies.

He initially thought he might find himself confronting a hostile audience, or at least a few hostile audience members.

"The current situation is that a very few hostile elements are maliciously sabotaging the capital's stability," he said.

Quite a few were hostile in a knee-jerk sort of way simply because they had not taken the trouble to understand exactly what the government was trying to do and why it was important.

One of the few hostile takeover attempts in European banking, ABN Amro's move has caused a stir and not only by affronting the Belgian officials who had seen the Fortis-Générale link-up as the last chance to create a Belgian bank big enough to survive in Europe.

One of the few hostile bank deals, Bank of New York's acquisition of the Irving Trust Company, took 15 months from the day it was announced until it finally closed, in December 1988.

All in the room were troubled; some were abrasive; a few were openly hostile.

Ever since it was founded, in 1996, the network has been avowedly conservative, friendly toward the Republican Party, and, with a few individual exceptions, hostile to Democrats.