Last year, the Hawaii Supreme Court essentially ruled privatisation unconstitutional by finding that the state's civil-service act forbids moving to the private sector any jobs that have "traditionally and historically" been performed by public workers.Hawaii's powerful environmental groups are sceptical, if not hostile, to growth and development.
In terms of survival strategies, in a country hostile to growth?
Even in the absence of an accident, conditions are hostile to growth.
The draft poverty report "was read by some people as hostile to growth and reform," said Nick Stern, the incoming chief economist at the World Bank, who is charged with rewriting it.
He looked to the United States for support of his "democratic" regime and established his administration as uncompromisingly hostile to the growth of communist influence in Romania.
Often, the soils are hostile to plant growth either via low pH (with consequent aluminium and manganese toxicities), or via being highly alkaline, ex-marine soils that can be sodic, have toxic levels of boron and marginal zinc availability.
Contrary to the common view that regards sand dunes as infertile and hostile for plant growth while highlighting the positive role of biocrusts on plants, the current findings indicate that as far as annual plant productivity is concerned, the non-crusted dune may serve as a fertility belt for annuals during extreme drought years.
The opposition's confused and mistaken opposition to new rules on foreign investment in retail in India, and its bungled efforts in forcing a vote on the issue in parliament, make it look hostile to pro-growth measures just as India's economy slows to less than 6% GDP growth.
The lack of regeneration following spinal cord injury (SCI) is mainly caused by the presence of glial scarring, cystic cavitation and a hostile environment to axonal growth at the lesion site.
