Sentence examples for perceived hostility from inspiring English sources

India was criticised, notably by Barack Obama, for its perceived hostility to foreign investment.

When you started, in the eighties, the press was focused so much on the hostility, or the perceived hostility, of the band.

One reason is its perceived hostility to Israel, which led previous mayors like Edward I. Koch and Rudolph W. Giuliani to use it as a punching bag.

As Sajid Javid, a Conservative Treasury minister, points out, the Tories have to contend with a legacy of perceived hostility to minorities of all sorts.

Miranda had appeared to be in jeopardy, both because of that long-ignored but recently rediscovered law, by which Congress had tried to overrule Miranda 32 years ago, and because of the court's perceived hostility to the original decision.

Defence lawyers said the court would suffer a crisis of legitimacy if Mr Robertson stayed, because of his perceived hostility to some of the defendants accused of atrocities in the west African country's decade-long civil war.

Children with reactive behavior present information-processing deficits and therefore tend to perceive hostility in their peers' actions even in ambiguous situations in which there is no clear provocative or aggressive intention (Crick & Dodge 1996; Dodge & Coie 1987).

Avicenna had argued in his On the Soul (the De anima part of The Healing I.5 and IV.3) that human beings and animals share an internal sense called estimation (wahm, aestimatio), which perceives so-called "intentions" (ma'ânî, intentiones) in an object, such as hostility and friendliness: The sheep perceives hostility in the wolf and judges that the wolf is to be fled from.

But when they believe their needs as an employee are not being met, or they perceive hostility from other employees or management, these workers feel left with no other choice.

The first has been suggested by past research, showing that children engaging in reactive aggression tend to perceive hostility from others, even when no hostility was intended (Crick and Dodge 1996).

But guild members provided a copy of a June 28 memo outlining the more recent report of perceived subtle hostility, submitted to the county clerk by one of her employees.