Sentence examples for hostile campaign from inspiring English sources

adopted the international code in the face of a very hostile campaign from various quarters.

The United States Justice Department must investigate and prosecute this hostile campaign.

It also emerged on Monday that Rezaian's family are to lodge a complaint against a number of Iranian media organisations mounting an increasingly hostile campaign against him.

The editorial said "Lieberman is leading a hostile campaign against some Arab countries, and he is provoking others against Iraq, in particular".

Instead, the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (Ceta) – a 1,500-page 1,500-pageeven years in the making – became the target of a spectacularly hostile campaign.

He showed extraordinary fortitude in the face of a relentlessly hostile campaign by Conservative newspapers, often abetted by enemies in the Labour Party, which lasted more than a decade.

However, the alternative course of action - releasing the movie without a rating at all - would probably deter some cinemas from screening the film which is already the subject of hostile campaigning.

In May, with its lead independent director under pressure from Ackman to meet, Allergan brought on Wachtell's David Katz and Daniel Neff, who had successfully defended other companies, including Airgas, in hostile campaigns, as additional board counsel.

The past few weeks in the UK prior the vote have been marked by increasingly hostile campaigns as the polls showed an almost even split between the leave and remain camps, with each side resulting to ideological arguments and accusations of scare mongering to swing the vote their way.

This is not terribly surprising as the court has been hostile to campaign finance laws ever since Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, a supporter of campaign finance regulation, was replaced by Justice Samuel Alito, a member of the court's conservative bloc who is opposed to campaign regulation.

It was then acquired by Laidlaw in 1998, following a hostile takeover campaign.