Sentence examples for invite hostility from inspiring English sources

He was not sure why he was attacked: Syrians say that these days, their accent is enough to invite hostility.

Any time you try to change a difficult ex-spouse you inadvertently invite hostility or a lack of cooperation in return.

The rhetoric leading to the decision invited hostility to foreigners and gave tacit approval to those who wanted something to kick.

Invasion invited worldwide hostility, divided (and still divides) Europe, weakened the UN and, above all, provoked precisely the confrontation with terror that the war was supposed to alleviate.

It is a much repeated banality that comedians are tortured souls, either guarding some enduring melancholy, or going out of their way to invite ridicule and hostility so they can confront their demons.

"I'd be afraid that it would invite the same derision and hostility that I associate with the rape," she said.

In 1983, after years of hostility, the College Board invited him to speak at its annual convention.

Mrs. Boggs championed racial justice at a time when doing so invited the resentment if not hostility of most Southern whites.

They arrived assuming they had been invited and were greeted with open hostility.

I think most people believe that any use of nuclear weapons in hostility would, first of all, invite an exchange, and that in the exchange the scale of death and devastation and environmental degradation and illness would be vast.

This week, hundreds of mosques and Islamic organizations across the country have been encouraging their members to invite non-Muslims to attend prayers, discussions and tours of Islamic centers as a way to defuse hostility toward the Muslim population.