Sentence examples for hostile step from inspiring English sources

The Russian foreign ministry denounced the new sanctions as "another hostile step in line with the confrontational course" taken by the US.

Kershaw argues that Stalin knew a showdown with Hitler was coming but didn't want to risk any hostile steps that might precipitate a German invasion before the end of 1942, when Soviet rearmament would be completed.

And the logical consequence of this has been that the PRC has taken ever bolder and more hostile steps against Taiwan.

This will be Netanyahu's legacy: A deeply divided Israel which will have either a hardline government that will continue to take hostile steps provoking Palestinians and further frustrating peacemaking efforts or a weak and dysfunctional centrist government that will be incapable of acting decisively for peace.

Martin suggests that three things must happen if we are to avoid radical and talent-hostile steps imposed through the ballot box: (1) Talent must exert some self-discipline and lower its expectations.

The answer is that the merger will come last in a chain of hostile acquisition steps.

Into this hostile world stepped one brave-hearted immigrant priest.

At check-in, when the police officer at immigration wordlessly gestured me to one side with a hostile glare, Kivits stepped in and exhibited some kind of official supercard that magically gave me passage through immigration and out of my own country.

The first step in reducing hostile tendencies is to recognize how hostile you may be and the distorted thoughts and beliefs that give rise to angry outbursts.

Bristling at Democratic complaints that the plan was too light and that the administration was fundamentally hostile to taking bolder steps, he declared, "I am not antiregulation".

"Hostile Western forces have stepped up their strategy of imposing Westernization on our country and splitting it up, and they are doing their utmost to fence in and contain our country's development".