Sentence examples for hostile settings from inspiring English sources

But they also illustrate the ways city planners have tried to revitalize what had been viewed as cold, hostile settings.

They may be hard pressed to identify the Chiefs' exotic blitzes and to communicate at Arrowhead Stadium, one of the league's most hostile settings.

But now he must maintain his often fragile focus and composure in one of the most hostile settings possible, Oklahoma City's Chesapeake Energy Arena.

This is still important, but we also need those who put their heads above the parapet in overlooked communities and in more hostile settings, in an effort to change hearts and minds.

These capabilities help to make an MP robust for use in a variety of hostile settings.

From a mechanistic point of view, our results indicated that p70S6K signaling was able to activate Gli1 and up-regulate the anti-apoptotic protein Bcl2, thereby activating a survival response in breast cancer cells challenged in hostile settings.

Justice Antonin Scalia, who in other settings has been hostile to government regulation of speech, said there was value in holding the line here.

Moreover, in critical negotiations in international settings, Team USA is rabidly hostile toward harm reduction and syringe exchange at a time when Australia, Canada, Iran and most European Union countries embrace them as important drug policy tools.

Bearing in mind the expected high solubility of Fe2+ ions in the primeval waters of 10-5– 10-6 M [ 90, 221, 420], we believe that Fe-rich, illuminated settings would have been hostile for pre-cellular life forms that, unlike modern organisms, had no protection from hydroxyl radicals (see also the accompanying article [ 226]).

Though his press reception was hostile, Wilde was well received in diverse settings across America; he drank whiskey with miners in Leadville, Colorado and was fêted at the most fashionable salons in every city he visited.

In an earlier paper, we had argued that maternal competence in childcare, which is likely to be negatively affected by depression, probably plays a greater role in the child's physical well-being and development in impoverished settings, as the environment is frequently more hostile than in the more resourced settings.