Sentence examples for hostile lines from inspiring English sources

They sat staring straight ahead, mute and glum, their faces in cramped, hostile lines.

A little later, with ammunition critically low and the supply lines cut off, Sgt. BASILONE, at great risk of his life and in the face of continued enemy attack, battled his way through hostile lines with urgently needed shells for his gunners, thereby contributing in large measure to the virtual annihilation of a Japanese regiment.

On Europe, he insisted he had urged on Thatcher, unsuccessfully, a less hostile line.

If it gains control of Taiwan's legislature and the presidency in 2016, it is likely to take a more hostile line towards the mainland.

Rouhani and foreign minister Javad Zarif sometimes take a less hostile line, along with warnings and criticism about American and Israeli actions.

The attacks already seem primed to exacerbate the tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia, which in turn could lead the U.S. to take an even more hostile line toward Tehran as it defends its ally in the Persian Gulf.

Simultaneously, the hostile battle lines opened a tremendous fire upon each other.

Riffing on the joy of snow, Stuart Jefferies writes: "It's a scene one barely witnesses in London: one of innocence, albeit momentary; of snow in a city that doesn't do extremes of weather; of hostile battle lines suspended and replaced – just for the day – by playful ones; of gratutitous wonders that fall from the sky and blindside you.

Regional officer for the NUT, Martin O'Gilvie, said there will not be a "hostile picket line" and it will be "more of a celebration of state education".

On principle, Cheney and his aides are hostile to regular lines of authority set up to enforce professional standards and a responsible chain of command.

In the Shchusev collection's image of the 1926 headquarters for the Soviet newspaper Izvestia, you can see the old Russia that the Bolsheviks feared would overwhelm them crowding round the building, hostile – the clean lines abutted by squat Tsarist pallazos, crenellations and Orthodox domes.