Sentence examples for hostile communities from inspiring English sources

This, in turn, would give hostile communities license to block affordable housing.

Northern Ireland showed what could be achieved between two hostile communities if politicians were allowed to "take back control" from those using violence.

But through a peace process that was backed by the international community — not driven by it — two hostile communities were able to come together to share power in our common home.

No matter who controlled the apparatus of government during that time, however, the results were the same a growing paralysis of administration throughout the empire, increasing anarchy and misrule, and the fracture of society into discrete and increasingly hostile communities.

The tsunami, it was argued, offered some political hope of reconciliation between hostile communities: Muslims and Buddhists in southern Thailand, Acehnese and the Jakarta government, Tamils and Sinhalese in Sri Lanka.

"One possibility is that blacks in racially hostile communities experience lower quality health care, or may avoid seeking health care, even if it is available, because they feel like they won't be treated fairly," Leitner said.

As Oxfam's report makes clear, hostile community relations increase costs from delays and legal disputes, reduces mine access due to roadblocks and protests, damages companies' reputations and can even result in withdrawal from a project.

The metropolitan and other provincial bishops soon became just as important as the congregation as a whole; and, though they could never successfully impose a man on a solidly hostile community, they could often prevent the appointment falling under the control of one powerful lay family or faction.

Although the Jews did not endure unrelenting persecution and even enjoyed a cultural renaissance in the 12th century that paralleled a Christian one, they faced an increasingly hostile community that created a new theological image of the Jews and undermined the place of the Jews in society.

Twitter is a giant, open community, and without these tools, it could quickly turn into a hostile community.

"Wirathu plays a central role with his hate speech and the Islamophobia that it creates, given that the Rohingya are surrounded by a hostile community that can be whipped into violence very quickly," said Penny Green, director of the International State Crime Initiative at Queen Mary University of London and author of a forthcoming report on Myanmar.