Sentence examples for confronting the hostility from inspiring English sources

By 1792, France was confronting the hostility of neighboring countries, debating how to react.

Unless you count throwaway remarks, like her description of kissing the pipe-smoking Bing Crosby in "The Road to Hong Kong" (like "kissing an ashtray"), or confronting the hostility of Bette Davis on the set of "The Virgin Queen," there is no score settling.

For both Hesiod and Weinberg, confronting the hostility of the universe is a test that, in Weinberg's words, "lifts human life a little above the level of farce".

Haiti inherited the wounds of racial and class enmity and confronted the hostility of slave-holding powers, including the United States.

Its leaders had to confront the hostility of voters, and at year's end much still had to be decided about how to make the euro work better.

In this country we absolutely have to confront the residual hostility many continue to display when confronted by the appearance of unconventional women in positions of authority.

At least Italy is confronting the issue.

Consider confronting the person.

Boris Yeltsin and Viktor Chernomyrdin confronted the prospect of incurring profound western hostility, and chose to become part of the solution that has been imposed on Milosevic.

Gabrielle, chain-smoking and sarcastic, confronts the world, and the men in it, with a wariness that borders on hostility.

Signs of increased hostility from a state that has often preferred to accommodate rather than confront the Brotherhood have persuaded many of its members of a need to retrench and lie low for the time being.