Sentence examples for explicitly hostile from inspiring English sources

Surely he's wary of moving the relationship between the world's two biggest economic powers in an explicitly hostile direction, isn't he?

For now, however, the cause of reform is overwhelmingly more likely to be achieved by a Lib Dem partnership of principle with Labour than by a Lib Dem marriage of convenience with a Tory party which is explicitly hostile to the cause and which currently plans to redraw the political map for its own advantage.

The Russian Navy can use arms without warning to suppress armed provocation at the Frontier; armed resistance during stoppage and arrest of a trespassing vessel, which has violated the law; and explicitly hostile acts.

This must be communicated to the child through the parent's behaviour and includes for instance that the parent is not perceived as frightened/frightening, that he/she is not explicitly hostile, that the parent shows a fundamental willingness to soothe and comfort in times of fear and distress [ 39] and that he/she is predictable in his/her reactions and actions.

"Operation TIPS", a Justice Department plan last year to recruit millions of American workers to report "suspicious" activity, provoked such a hostile reaction that the Senate explicitly banned it in the law establishing the new Department of Homeland Security.

Mr Blair, by arguing that social Europe and economically liberal Europe are not inevitably hostile to one another, was explicitly attempting to export to Europe the Brown-Blair, New Labour synthesis.

Mr Markert says that while Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze personified 1960s acid rock, four-fifths of the songs that explicitly mention LSD are post 1980 and overwhelmingly hostile.

One month and four days later, I played the interloper, descending into unwelcomed, even hostile territory, an environment where I explicitly warned to remain out of the state.

In a candid interview with the Guardian, Sarah Teather, the Liberal Democrat MP for Brent Central and minister for children and families until last September's reshuffle, revealed that an internal working group on immigration was initially named the Hostile Environment Working Group, because it was explicitly charged with making Britain a hostile environment for unwanted immigrants.

"Equalizing Things" is critical of the disputers' ideas and in one passage explicitly criticizes Hui Shi.[24] But it also praises his intelligence and is not downright hostile toward him, as Xunzi is.

Rather than explicitly calling for a new Cold War focussed on radical Islam rather than on Communism, Clinton talked about exercising "smart power" and about engaging an American public that is now instinctively hostile toward foreign entanglements.