Sentence examples for international hostility from inspiring English sources

Because of domestic opposition, internal demoralization, and international hostility, Gaddafi assumed a more conciliatory attitude following his defeat.

Mr Blatter won re-election on May 29th, in a closer-than-expected vote, but international hostility apparently grew intolerable.

"We delude ourselves about the degree of international hostility to military action if we imagine that it is all the fault of President Chirac," he said.

We delude ourselves about the degree of international hostility to military action if we imagine that it is all the fault of President Chirac.

Colin Powell, the secretary of state, is routinely confronted about his country's use of the death penalty when he meets his counterparts around the world.Such international hostility is proving a problem for Mr Bush, who presided over 152 executions in his six years as governor of Texas.

Already banned from travel for several years and facing a series of charges, including "disobeying the rightful ruler" and "inciting international hostility against the kingdom," he was remanded in custody on April 15th.These two cases are among a string of arrests and prosecutions of human-rights defenders, would-be reformers and various other critics.

International hostilities can result, and the way to prevent them and to mitigate projected global warming is to substitute nuclear energy for fossil fuels.

This notice serves to illustrate the fact that tension between lefts and rights throughout the continent is so near the snapping point that the least incident might precipitate international hostilities.

International hostilities could provide a shot in the arm to the missile business, whatever the collateral damage that comes with it, though nobody in the book is saying, à la "Dr. Strangelove," that we wouldn't get our hair mussed.

The Olympic idealists tend to confuse the Olympic truce— the temporary setting aside of international hostilities — with the old End of History, that peaceable kingdom achieved after the world's gradual evolution toward decent liberal democracy.

But it proves a fascinating complement to two works written by Handel to celebrate the Treaty of Utrecht, heralding the end of many decades of widespread international hostilities, in England in 1713: the "Utrecht Te Deum" and "Jubilate," both in English.