Mr. Sarna delivers a careful, warts-and-all accounting of the ugliness surrounding all sides of this incident, right down to quoting the fearful, competitive, even hostile attitude some Jews held toward newly freed slaves.
"The problem with Laing's legacy," one long-time campaigner told me, "is that he produced a competitive and hostile climate where the patient became collateral damage between warring factions".
Since facework varies across cultures, this study analyzed how cultural collectivism, power distance, masculinity, and uncertainty avoidance influence direct, indirect, competitive, cooperative, hostile, and ritualistic facework in Syria and the United States, employing a MANCOVA design with gender as the covariate.
The more complex societies in this sample had greater difficulties in coping with sudden, massive stresses, apparently because of their greater reliance on the built environment, staple cultigens, long-range trade networks, greater population density, competitive to hostile political landscapes, redistributive economies, and other centralized institutions.
After Hyder's share price collapsed in 1999 and 2000, the Hyder Group was sold to WPD on terms recommended by the Hyder Board after a competitive and hostile takeover battle.
This high stress, competitive, often hostile environment takes its total on emotional well-being, and requires effort from both you and your spouse to mitigate this.
Jac Nasser, Ford's chief executive, has said he does not expect Ford-branded cars alone to recover the market share that the company has lost in recent years.But both GM and Ford face an increasingly hostile competitive environment.
Airtran Chief Executive Joseph Leonard termed the competitive environment "extremely hostile" earlier this year in explaining that the Orlando-based carrier will not be adding new destinations in 2004.
During the Cold War, relationships between the "First World" and the "Second World" of Communist states were typically competitive, ideological and hostile.
It is far easier for an invader to establish and spread if the competitive environment is less hostile or if an invading species is competitively superior compared with the resident species (Waters et al. 2013).
