Sentence examples for confronted with hostility from inspiring English sources

And the Iranian people believed that their dignity had been compromised, that the openness of our administration had been confronted with hostility and excessive demands.

In this context, the "myth" of Latrun derived from the frustrations and the death of the new immigrants and was catalysed by their integration in a society where "the survivor of Shoah carried the new collective memory, immigrant refugees who had troubled pasts, and then were confronted with hostility and threat and still took their place with their blood and taking part in the war".

If you are confronted with hostility for your beliefs, brush it off.

"We were confronted with a permanent hostility that nobody dreamed of concealing. . .

The new, younger wife knows she is going to be confronted with resentment and hostility so she goes in spoiling for a fight, to show that she is not a pushover.

Almost the only mention of her school life is that "Jessy paid no attention to the names they called her," that other children's hostility, "confronted with her indifference, soon stopped".

First, to be expelled from the conference, and then, to be confronted with such hatred and hostility.

Afterwards, she confronts him with hostility, but Homer is able to explain that he was genuinely moved by Blanche's situation.

One of the major questions raised in the literature relates to feedback effects: what are the consequences of public hostility for the religiosity of Moslems (and other religious minorities confronted with prejudice and discrimination)?

Confronted with schizophrenic public opinion on one of their totemic ideas, the Tories decided that the electorate's hostility to a give-away for the well-off, rather than the public's enthusiasm for the easing of a "death tax" they regard as unfair, was the real mood of the country.

Jude is confronted with the opposite situation.