But on Thursday, in the teeth of a huge, unusually hostile crowd at Camden Yards, they did the improbable in the eighth inning.
Or consider the huge family of hostile emotions akin to anger: rage, fury, hatred, resentment, contempt, loathing, and scorn, to name just a few.
It is a huge country with hostile neighbors where several armies have access to diamonds and other minerals that give them a long-term motive to fight.
German companies also have vivid memories of the huge and successful hostile bid by Vodafone P.L.C. to acquire Mannesmann A.G., which owned one of the biggest collections of wireless telephone companies across Europe.
"They've created a huge public that is very hostile to the United States and believes that America is promoting core values that are in conflict with their own".
This tripartite pressure of an increasingly hostile built environment, huge reduction in state budgets, and a hardening attitude to poverty can be disastrous for people sleeping rough, both physically and psychologically.
With the ban on the Baath Party and, a week later, the disbandment of Iraq's very sizable, well-trained, and armed army, President Bush, through his man in Iraq, Paul Bremer, essentially acquired a volatile, hostile opposition — a huge number of Iraqis and their dependents who had nowhere else to go and were being told they had no place in the new Iraq.
Kirk Kerkorian, who owns 12percentt of Chrysler, suffered a huge flop after making a $20 billion hostile bid for the automaker.
Hedges have been uprooted, wetlands drained, heaths ploughed up and pesticides such as DDT sprayed copiously to eliminate hostile insects thus also eliminating huge quantities of bird food.
