Sentence examples for met hostile from inspiring English sources

In his new original series Treme, the New Orleans police department aren't painted in quite the same favourable light – so far we've met hostile cops, violent cops and tonight, we meet a particularly flaky ex-cop, as Toni's investigation into Daymo's disappearance continues to throw up unpromising leads.

The companies had to be prepared for such challenges as crossing rivers and mountains and meeting hostile Indians.

But the group was met by hostile militiamen.

A letter sent by the Congress to the workers of the Soviet bloc, encouraging them to form trade unions, met with hostile official response throughout the bloc.

These plans have met a hostile reception from TriBeCa neighbors who fear that an equipment-laden 32 Avenue of the Americas will emit intolerable noise.

He said that when he testified to the Senate's cultural commission last week, he was met with hostile questions along the lines of "Why don't you speak to national values?

The Titan proposal met a hostile reception from the chief inspector of prisons, prison governors and penal reform organisations who claimed the prisons would be huge US-style penal "warehouses" that would have higher reoffending rates than smaller jails.

Occasionally, I met people hostile to westerners (in the context of Saharan history, it would be odd if you didn't), but the desert is mostly governed by a code of kindness to strangers, the positive values of Islam.

A soldier who took part in the ground-floor operations inside Westgate said Kenyan forces were providing covering fire but had met no hostile fire in return as they searched the vast complex room by room.

The administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Asa Hutchinson, met a hostile audience later in the day at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco as he explained the Bush Administration's stepped up drug war.

His claim that a creature with an ape-sized brain could have dental and postural characteristics approaching those of humans initially met with hostile skepticism because his theory entailed the principle of mosaic evolution, or the development of some characteristics in advance of others.