Sentence examples for hostile counties from inspiring English sources

Recognizing that many states wouldn't welcome new voters with open arms, Johnson ordered federal workers deployed to especially hostile counties in Southern states to register voters.

Even if he is able to pull out victory, Mr. Suozzi, an outspoken politician with statewide ambitions, might be hamstrung by a newly hostile County Legislature.

There was a time when the owner of a nuclear reactor at Indian Point labored mightily against a cadre of passionate opponents and hostile county officials who wanted the plant to be shut down.

Mr. Gulotta has an imposing $2.5 million campaign fund but has suffered grave damage over his handling of county finances, with the prospect of further pitfalls as he executes a 2001 budget under the scrutiny of a hostile county Legislature and a skeptical state watchdog, the Nassau Interim Finance Agency.

"This decision will leave good people defenseless, as it completely ignores the fact that law-abiding Californians who reside in counties with hostile sheriffs will now have no means to carry a firearm outside the home for personal protection".

He presents himself as a wine naïf, brought up in a wine-hostile environment (the Home Counties of England).

Di Canio said last week that he was working in a "hostile environment" at the County Ground.

Mr. Marchand's sense that northwestern Connecticut - denoted on maps as Litchfield County - is hostile to Yankee fans is not universally shared, and not just because the vicinity has long been popular with New Yorkers who have summer homes.

Even if West Cumbrians wanted to press ahead (and all we know now for definite is that their councillors do), much of the rest of the county could remain hostile.

"The background climate in this county has become … unremittingly hostile.

Missouri has voted for the winner in every presidential election save one over the last century, and Mr. Obama seems to be fighting for every ballot in every county, including those areas normally hostile to a liberal Democrat.