Sentence examples for hostile element from inspiring English sources

A senior Israeli defense official, Yossi Kuperwasser, said that in Gaza, Israel was facing a "hostile governing element challenged by an even more hostile element" and that "radical Islamic groups are competing with each other over who is more radical".

He built up their confidence by encouraging them to play with the previously hostile element, by blowing bubbles in the water, splashing each other or jumping off the sides.

Dr. Lee could be "snatched and taken out of the country" by a hostile element looking for the missing tapes, Mr. Kelly said, according to a transcript of the hearing.

Strongbox-type case water-resistant to 100 metres, with antimagnetic system designed to protect the mechanism from any hostile element.

We were reluctant to expose ourselves to the hostile element of Calendar's readership, but the courage of Ruth E. Stout and Leo Ay has heartened us (Calendar Letters, May 12).

The environment contained these hostile elements even before life began.

This freed Charles to deal with hostile elements elsewhere.

To be sure, the environment, rigorously shaping and directing the life it supported, contained hostile elements.

Now hostile elements have got a hold it has made our life much more difficult in Baghdad and in Basra.

"The current situation is that a very few hostile elements are maliciously sabotaging the capital's stability," he said.

That policy locks down, excludes and redefines even its own citizens as loyal patriots or potentially hostile elements.