Sentence examples for confront hostile from inspiring English sources

The Inquisition's secret procedures, its eagerness to accept denunciations, its use of torture, the absence of counsel for the accused, the lack of any right to confront hostile witnesses, and the practice of confiscating the property of those who were condemned and sharing it between the Inquisition, the crown, and the accusers all this inspired great terror, as indeed it was meant to do.

For every round, Falaknaz and her fellow vaccinators will walk many arduous miles, knock on more than 100 doors, answer dozens of questions and may even confront hostile behaviour.

These taut little pictures are astonishing, acutely observed wartime vignettes: a recruit listening, eyes down, to distant music; a stiff young officer confronting hostile prisoners of war.

For others, Mr. Obama's decision raised questions about whether the United States had diminished its leadership role in foreign affairs, with commentators in Israel fearing a weakening of American resolve in confronting hostile powers.

In 2007, there was a surge of outrage when news spread about a German Army training video in which a soldier was told to imagine himself in the Bronx confronting hostile African-Americans as he fired his machine gun.

Vivendi Universal head Jean-Marie Messier confronts hostile board members on Wednesday, hoping an 11th-hour debt-reduction plan will win him a reprieve and restore confidence in the media empire he built.

They use it to confront a hostile Congress or to rally the public against a feckless political establishment.

First Mr Papandreou had to confront a hostile cabinet (although it has since endorsed the idea of a referendum).

Watching Ms. Rivera's still-lithe body defy gravity and decrepitude, I thought of Chaplin's Little Tramp and Fellini's muse, Giulietta Masina, putting on brave faces to confront a hostile universe.

At the tail end of the 1960s, elements within the Civil Rights Movement were having a debate about how the African-American community at large should confront the hostile and ignorant society in which it resided.

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