Last December, the Intelligence Science Board, an advisory panel to the U.S. intelligence community, released a report declaring that "most observers, even those within professional circles, have unfortunately been influenced by the media's colorful (and artificial) view of interrogation as almost always involving hostility".
Four out of 5 of the former detainees have returned to a pacific way of life not involving hostility towards their former captors.
War, in the popular sense, a conflict among political groups involving hostilities of considerable duration and magnitude.
In Europe and America, this has involved racist hostility to immigrants and minorities (whether ethnically or religious defined).
The Israeli human-rights organization B'tselem has documented seven hundred and seventy-three cases in which Israeli forces killed civilians not involved in hostilities.
It is the very fact that doctors treat on the basis of need – and are not involved in hostilities – that they can claim protection under international humanitarian law.
From 1701 to 1714 Austria was involved in hostilities with France the War of the Spanish Succession over the heir to the Spanish throne.
The Obama Administration has, for a couple of months now, been arguing that our country is not even involved in "hostilities" in Libya.
The percentage of Palestinian civilians killed who were not involved in hostilities also declined in 2007, to 35percentt, from 54percentt in 2006, Btselem said.
The company became involved in hostilities in India both with the French and with Indian rulers, and under Robert Clive its army was able to depose the nawab, or Indian governor, of Bengal at the Battle of Plassey in 1757.
