Most of that disaster's victims were officially designated members of "hostile classes," or enemies of the state, so the regime hardly mourned their deaths.
He launched the Red Terror, a merciless extermination of the Whites, the "hostile classes"; the officers of the imperial Army who had fought against Germany were among the primary targets.
Yet in my experience of the town, where I grew up and whose local comp I attended,there has always been a palpable, occasionally even hostile, sense of class division.
The senator has been trying desperately to bolster his standing with skeptical and even hostile white working-class voters.
But the proceedings that drew to a close in State Superior Court here this week did not involve a high-stakes hostile takeover or a class action by shareholders.
First, he could be more difficult to brand as hostile to the middle class, because Mr. Gingrich does not have a history of buying and selling companies as Mr. Romney does from his time at Bain Capital.
Perhaps elite intellectuals like Mr. Miller himself unwittingly created an atmosphere hostile to such middle-class attitudes.
(To shield the Journal from hostile takeovers, the family in 1984 submitted — and shareholders approved — a plan to issue a new, Class B stock with ten times the voting power of Class A stock.
Richardson claims the student was "running his mouth" during class and became "hostile" by swinging his arms at the teacher.
Steinholt believes there is a broad consensus in the labor movement that the Contractual Pension bill holds a hostile policy towards the working class.
