Sentence examples for hostile to making from inspiring English sources

He soon found that the city's bureaucracy was hostile to making a tough enforcement effort.

Besides the fact that this over-hyped environment can become hostile to making good work, it also ignores the fact that most theater is not an event.

The Scots took until October 14th, almost two weeks after launching their £21 billion ($35 billion) hostile bid, to make a formal offer.Still, NatWest was in no doubt that battle had been joined.

The regulation of products ranging from tape recorders to computer chips was intended to keep American technology out of the hands of potential enemies, who might use it for military purposes or sell it to hostile countries to make nuclear weapons.

Much of the work could be considered survival art, rough pieces created in a hostile environment to make sense of the artists' conflicting desires and unstable worldviews.

In the south of the country, parties more openly hostile to foreigners made gains in local elections.Messrs Blair and Persson are not easy ideological bedfellows but over the next year they will be sharing an agenda as they both try to persuade their compatriots to agree to adopt Europe's single currency, the euro.

While there appears to be no evidence directly linking Putin to the murders, press freedom advocates emphasize that a political climate that is hostile to journalists makes it far more likely that they will be killed with impunity.

Williams never fully committed to making a hostile and now appears to have faded away.

Some gun-rights advocates have claimed the treaty would allow a hostile U.S. administration to make an end-run round the Second Amendment.

Perched on the edge of the Mojave desert, and notoriously among the hottest, driest places on the planet, Death Valley would appear to be one of the most hostile environments possible to make a film.

"Obviously, particularly in Soviet times, but even nowadays, Russia still has a large amount of red tape and bureaucratic systems that are parasitic and hostile, almost designed to make you pay bribes," said Prof. Mark Galeotti, an expert on Russian organized crime at New York University.