The sense of besiegement by "foreigners" with hostile values has also intensified in Europe as globalised financial markets restrict nation-states' autonomy of action; globalised labour challenges dominant ideas of citizenship, national culture and tradition, and globalised terrorism provokes the curtailment of civil liberties and a draconian regime of surveillance.
Among these, he said, would be barring "preachers of hate" from visiting Britain to speak in mosques and community centers; stopping Muslim groups that propagate views hostile to values of gender equality, democracy and human rights "from reaching people in publicly funded institutions like universities and prisons"; and cutting off government support for such groups.
That the challenge has been initiated by a network financed by a nation from a part of the world that has been hostile to the value of a a free press or free expression is, in a sense, something to arouse skepticism.
They were weak on, and sometimes privately hostile to, the values of tolerance and equality.
Billions of human beings have been hostile to liberal values, and there is no reason for thinking matters will be any different in future.
This mistreatment of a vulnerable population, which advocates for immigrants trace to the roundups of Muslims after 9/11 and the subsequent clamor for tougher immigration laws, is hostile to American values and disproportionate to the threat that these immigrants pose.
Directors of Ulster Petroleum Ltd. of Calgary, Alberta, have rejected a hostile takeover bid valued at 512 million Canadian dollars ($353 million from the privately owned Hunt Oil Company of Dallas and have hired financial advisers to find a better offer.
"What is the point of having a defence budget, if we don't at least try to prevent the establishment of a terrorist 'caliphate' that is profoundly hostile to civilised values?" he wrote.
So today, gasoline costs twice as much at the pump, with most of that increase going to countries hostile to our values, while China is rapidly becoming the world's leader in wind, solar, electric cars and high-speed rail.
They know all too well they serve a mid-sized, declining power that only intermittently sways American policy.What is more, Britain's upper echelons are not theologically opposed to working with Europe, nor hostile to European values.
