Sentence examples for hostile without from inspiring English sources

Like a roaring contagion that burns itself out, Islamic State will eventually succumb, but the Sunni constituency it has championed will remain hostile without a shared stake in running the country.

The Obama administration has appropriated it as a major tool of foreign policy, a new way to go to war with nations it considers hostile without relying on planes, missiles, and troops.

"I think there's a danger when you adopt an immediately hostile position without having the goods, without having the smoking gun.

The political leaders now pouring into the area are flying into hostile territory without a plan.

ʿUmar perennially had to defend his conquests and foil hostile coalitions without giving up the principle of the jihad.

Under the conventions of war, soldiers may attack combatants of a "declared hostile force" without being shot at first.

Last week, Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama engaged in a dispute over whether they would agree to meet with hostile rulers without preconditions.

Men, women and children struggled to eke out an existence in a beautiful but hostile landscape – without any assistance from doctors or nurses," Thomas told Broadcast.

The thrust of the directive was to make it harder for European corporate bosses to ward off a hostile bid without first consulting shareholders.

The players Price and Williams find and mentor would enter a world that is largely unfamiliar, often uncomfortable, initially intimidating and hostile — often without intending to be.

"What kind of transparency can you call it, if management is allowed to fight hostile bids without asking shareholders?" he said.