Sentence examples for hostile aggression from inspiring English sources
He said it was very difficult to tell the difference between hostile aggression and instrumental aggression, or the aggression shown when a team is trying to win.
It explores how anger and hostile aggression can have devastating cardiovascular effects which shorten survival.
Because trait anger is associated more closely with expressive, than with instrumental aggression, offenders with a higher than average pervasive anger score may benefit better in anger management interventions, which are designed to reduce expressive or hostile aggression (Browne and Howells, 1996; McDougall et al. 1987).
There is no doubt that white supremacists in cities like Charlottesville and online spaces will expect to be met with hostile aggression and hate.
On the other hand, Christians also know, from both experience and scripture, that all humans are sinful, capable of acting with hostile aggression toward their neighbors.
The DPRK, a responsible nuclear weapons state, will neither be the first to use nuclear weapons nor transfer relevant means and technology under any circumstances as already declared as long as the hostile forces for aggression do not encroach upon its sovereignty.
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Hostile Cognitions, and Aggression in Iraq/Afghanistan Era Veterans.
The study conducted by Bushman and Anderson (2001), titled "Is it time to pull the plug on the hostile versus instrumental aggression dichotomy?", proposes a discussion of the real need to discriminate between proactive and reactive aggressive behaviors.
Reactive aggression (hostile or impulsive aggression) refers to angry and impulsive responses, which are usually triggered by provocation or stimuli subjectively interpreted as provocation.
A perception of European weakness, he warned, could provide a "temptation to miscalculation and aggression" by hostile powers.
A slim, passionately committed young woman, she faced down hostile demonstrators and braved police aggression.
