Polls alone don't capture how visceral anti-American feelings have become, spreading beyond traditional centers of hostility -- mosques and other strongholds of conservative Islamists, Arab nationalists and others -- across the spectrum of Arab society.
On the national stage, its anti-Europe platform centers on hostility to immigration.
Hafez al-Assad, the air force officer who ruled Syria for three decades, transforming a Middle East backwater into an introverted regional power that endured as the center of unbending Arab hostility toward Israel, died yesterday in Damascus.
And the steadily deteriorating situation in the Falluja area, a center of anti-American hostility west of Baghdad, has become so precarious that no American or Iraqi forces responded to the attack against the civilians, who worked for a North Carolina company.
And the steadily deteriorating situation in the Falluja area, a center of anti-American hostility west of Baghdad, has become so precarious that no American or Iraqi forces responded to the attack against the civilians, who worked for a North Carolina firm.
He cited progress in reducing violence in Anbar Province, formerly a center of anti-American hostility, and at persuading mostly Sunni tribal sheiks in some areas of the country to cooperate in security operations against Sunni insurgents — a development he called "in some respects unexpected".
Hostility was measured using the 20-item Chinese Hostility Inventory Short-Form (CHI-SF) [ 38], which contained four dimensions of hostility: (1) hostile cognition (six items, α =.78); (2) hostile affection (four items, α =.78); (3) expressive hostility (five items, α =.76); and (4) suppressive hostility (five items, α =.73).
Discussion centers on the potential role of hostility as a predictor of smoking cessation.
One theory was that Mr. Gorbachev was put off when he learned of the center's historic hostility to Communism and the abiding pessimism of some of its scholars about Mr. Gorbachev's prospects for reforming his country.
There was something about it, this picture of a woman at the center of so much criticism, so much hostility -- but a woman who had found a resting place in this city, even if only on a copied canvas.
