Sentence examples for inimical and from inspiring English sources

Poland's international position between an inimical and revisionist Germany (which constantly denounced the "corridor" separating it from East Prussia) and the Soviet Union was dangerous from the start.

Soviet repression, he writes, "taught the Russians that hope and trust are dangerous, inimical and treacherous," which in turn has led to social breakdown — the current "epidemic of alcoholism, the collapsing birthrate, the crime and the misery".

If Lee wanted to avoid the appearance of making advertisements on behalf of the excluded, he could confront inimical and offensive realities with overt polemics — in his best work, such as "Do the Right Thing," he does exactly this.

Stragglers would sometimes make predatory excursions into barnyards and dairies belonging to the persons who were disposed to be inimical and unaccommodating — this was unavoidable; but I did not hear of a single instance of a citizen being insulted or his property damaged.

Societies and political structures can be both inimical and favorable to the development of integrity, sometimes both at once.

Ultimately, shutting out the public like this is inimical and will eventually exaggerate the public's view of scientists as cryptic, egotistical, and cold.

In reference to the Combined scores for the case companies, respondents scored company reputation (i.e., the need to procure, protect and promote company reputation), pre-emptive anti-regulationism (i.e. the need to pre-empt inimical legal and regulatory regimes) and pre-existence of [compatible] development) among the strong drivers (Scores: 5.6 – 7.0).

He's alienated, adrift in an inimical universe, and subject to bouts of existential depression and to fits of larky lunacy.

He loathed the Yankees as baseball tyrants, the inimical forces, and from him I learned to do the same.

In this way, they are a lot like environmentalists, up against the inimical forces and inevitably beaten down by smug, businesslike men wearing pinstriped suits.

And if you go down to St. Mark's Place in the East Village today, you can still see Nico's blond inimical sheen and predilection for black pants suits exercising its influence on the kind of young women who prefer to be seen but not held.