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Discover LudwigThe phrase "hostile support" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to support or assistance that is given begrudgingly or with ill intentions. Example: Despite their proclamations of friendship, the country's actions showed only hostile support towards their neighboring nation's economic crisis.
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Later, fighters sprinted towards a suspicious jeep parked on the beach while the sea was scanned for hostile support vessels, but it turned out that again the men had stumbled upon people just trying to have a good time: a group of women drinking sparkling wine out of plastic cups on the beachfront.
Equally, in befriending Syria he smudges over decades of hostile support by Damascus for separatists and leftist terrorists in Turkey.
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When America broke off diplomatic relations with Taiwan in 1979 and recognised China instead, Congress passed a law obliging the administration to "provide Taiwan with arms of a defensive character" to guard against a hostile mainland.That support seems to be wobbling.
Perceiving hostile intent, supporting aircraft engaged".
The government was forced to halt the sale of the National Aluminum Company, the state-owned concern that had attracted the most foreign bidders so far, after bidders and their advisers traveling to the eastern state of Orissa to inspect its main plant were met with hostile protesters supporting the calls of Mr. Fernandes and Mr. Naik for a halt to privatization.
But while U.S. and western European Catholics have become more tolerant of gays, church officials in Africa, Asia and Latin America remain hostile, sometimes supporting anti-gay laws.
Voters were massively hostile to his support for the war in Iraq.
The third phase is to deal with those hostile states that support terrorism and seek to acquire or trade in weapons of mass destruction.
A second trip was even less productive, and the Administration returned to a hostile posture, declaring support for establishing a U.N. commission of inquiry to investigate war crimes in Burma.
In November of 1965, the American military command ordered Rescorla's unit, Bravo company of the Seventh Air Cavalry's 2nd Battalion, to the center of a hostile area to support a battalion surrounded by three regiments of hardened enemy troops — more than two thousand soldiers.
Although paracrine effects of MSCs on residual cardiomyocytes have been discussed, the amelioration of fibrosis was rarely studied as the hostile environment cannot support the survival of most cell populations and impairs the diffusion of soluble factors.
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