'manifest hostility' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a visible or apparent hostility or aggression. For example: The protestor's chants and raised fists indicated a manifest hostility towards the government.
In this vexing dispute, Eden Kodio, the OAU General Secretary at the time, manifested hostility toward Morocco.
Often, though not always, they manifest overt hostility to the very notion of mental representation.
Kmiec defended himself in a statement he emailed to AP. "I must say that I am troubled and saddened that a handful of individuals within my department in Washington seem to manifest a hostility to expressions of faith and efforts to promote better interfaith understanding," he said.
Such guilt often manifests as hostility.
A woman in bloomers was spotted on Sixth Avenue: " 'Conservatives' manifested their hostility to this progressive movement by derision".
"Only if any persons manifest any active hostility will I deal with them summarily".
Survey data show that while France manifested the strongest hostility towards the United States in the post-war period, it is now probably the least hostile of the European countries.This was Ezra Suleiman, a political scientist at Princeton and astute observer of France, writing some 20 years ago.
Then with breakneck speed we get a history of the ways that anti-Semitism has manifested itself — the hostility of early Christians, the Holocaust, mounting attacks on Jews by Muslims in France, and the call by Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for Israel to be "wiped off the map".
The incident sparks hostility that manifests itself throughout the film with ethnic digs.
Clearly, the seeds of hostility that are now manifest in the present crisis between the West and Russia over Ukraine have been gestating for some time.
