Sentence examples for hostile community from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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.

"Everyone knows the French contingent is in the most delicate of positions in Kosovo, in between two hostile communities," said Jean-Francois Bureau, a spokesman in Paris, Reuters reported.

The one person the government hasn't caught is Coke, the 42-year-old don at the alleged head of the Shower Posse gang – so called because of its tactic of showering its enemies and hostile communities with bullets – that has been a feature of Jamaican life, and politics, for as long as women such as Margaret can remember.

But the spread of militancy has been a major factor and, as the incidents in Karachi show, it is now snipers employed by organised militant groups who are targeting health workers rather than individuals in hostile communities.