Sentence examples for active hostility from inspiring English sources

"Only if any persons manifest any active hostility will I deal with them summarily".

Christianity, he says, is now regarded in England with condescension or dismissal when not with active hostility.

That shift in the last few years from passive silence to active hostility is what makes the Vatican's current stance so distressing.

Once the writer was caught slipping supplies to a small craft and the result was an active hostility between him and the captain.

"From the outset of his second run as President, in my judgment, he was bringing Russia to a posture of pretty active hostility toward the United States and the West".

He responded to these criticisms by arguing that, before Calvinism, capitalist enterprise and wealth accumulation were always fettered by the passive or active hostility of the prevalent religious order.

Is the ending of active hostilities totally unrealistic?

Active hostilities ceased with the signing of the Dayton peace agreement in December 1995.

Armistice, an agreement for the cessation of active hostilities between two or more belligerents.

ADF personnel who kill Isis members not engaged in active hostilities are vulnerable to prosecution under the commonwealth criminal code.

In August 1988 Pérez de Cuéllar personally negotiated the cease-fire that ended active hostilities in the Iran-Iraq War.