Sentence examples for a state of hostility from inspiring English sources

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When Alexander I came to the throne in March 1801, Russia was in a state of hostility with most of Europe, though its armies were not actually fighting; its only ally was its traditional enemy, Turkey.

This contributed to a state of hostility between his young contemporaries and the Lord Chancellor, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey.

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Colonel Pohl said that to the extent the question was a legal one, he owed deference to the judgment of the executive and legislative branches that "the United States government had simply been slow to recognize the existence of a state of hostilities then existing between the United States and Al Qaeda and its affiliates and franchises".

Although a state of hostilities existed between the Mam and the K'iche' of Q'umarkaj after the rebellion of the Kaqchikel against their former K'iche' allies prior to European contact, when the conquistadors arrived there was a shift in the political landscape.

Every human being, he felt, tended to act according to such basic drives, establishing a state of "absolute hostility" in human interaction, which in turn is the source of all group conflict.

Tense, fearful and beset by self-doubt, the French seem in a state of defiant hostility: towards their president, political parties, Islam, immigrants, the euro, globalisation, business bosses and more.

E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet When Rwanda issued the warrant for Madame Habyarimana's arrest, on October 19th last year — and delivered it to Interpol and to French authorities — Rwanda and France were officially in a state of diplomatic hostilities.

When Rwanda issued the warrant for Madame Habyarimana's arrest, on October 19th last year — and delivered it to Interpol and to French authorities — Rwanda and France were officially in a state of diplomatic hostilities.

They will try to goad India into retaliating and thereby giving them what serves them best: a state of frozen, impermeable hostility.

Hardly surprising given England and Ireland have been in a state of almost continuous hostility, from the first Norman invasion, through the settlements under Henry VIII and a period of suppression and famine that led Jonathan Swift to propose the Irish might be better off selling their children as food to the English nobility, even going so far as to suggest a few recipes.

Both sets of voters wanted a leader who would restore security and heal the sectarian divide that has kept the country in a near constant state of hostility.

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