Sentence examples similar to hostile gathering from inspiring English sources

His travels as a lecturer have taken him before many hostile gatherings of students.

Mr Sarkozy cracked down on illegal immigrants and prostitutes, forbade "hostile gatherings" in the entrance halls of buildings and armed the municipal police with Flash Ball rubber pellets.Yet the price is that young minorities feel victimised as never before, rather as Afro-Caribbean Britons did ahead of the 1981 Brixton riots, which led to a shake-up of British policing.

If it stops hostile momentum gathering behind the story, it can even be a shrewd PR move.

Security requirement number 6 counters any misdeeds against critical infrastructure, whether for hostile intelligence gathering, contamination, or cutting of the infrastructure, and impedes smuggling of unwanted materials and unwanted intrusion.

In a striking passage, he told the strongly conservative Republican gathering, hostile to most new government initiatives, that he intended "to extend the promise of prosperity to every corner of the country".

Our agencies suddenly needed to do far more than the traditional mission of monitoring hostile powers and gathering information for policymakers – instead, they were asked to identify and target plotters in some of the most remote parts of the world, and to anticipate the actions of networks that, by their very nature, cannot be easily penetrated with spies or informants.

At one point near the end of the war, for example, frustrated American commanders ordered that in certain intractable hostile areas, any gatherings observed from the air of more than a handful of people would be attacked with B-52 strikes -- the war's knockout punch, capable of leveling an area the size of several football fields.

And will it, as he hopes, make for a less hostile, more comfortable communal gathering place for the geeks, outcasts and pizza faces?

The gathering is hostile, and he appeals for a fair hearing both in the beginning of his remarks and later when he speaks of the price of grain; but he shows himself a man of fearless courage both in defending himself and in upbraiding his fellow townsmen.

But just the act of quietly protesting Waldheim's candidacy suddenly draws a hostile backlash in a gathering crowd, creating ugly reactions that refuse to go away.

It's hardly news that the Obama administration is intensely and, in many respects, unprecedentedly hostile toward the news-gathering process.