Sentence examples for popular hostility from inspiring English sources

There is plenty of popular hostility to privatisation.

Reforms have met popular hostility not applause; voters seem to crave economic justice more than growth.

The result is a surge of popular hostility in Germany toward the country's ungrateful fellow Europeans.

Faced by popular hostility, however, he abandoned Anagni two days later, leaving the pope behind.

Popular hostility soon built up toward the seemingly ever-present Portuguese troops.

US-led forces are surrounded by popular hostility, and are operating completely outside Iraqi "sovereign" jurisdiction.

But America is not dealing with a fixed amount of popular Arab hostility: the level is rising fast.

British media expressed bafflement at popular Iranian hostility to Britain when the embassy in Tehran was trashed by demonstrators last month.

And the fact that this was not simply a zigzag in US policy was born out by popular and congressional hostility towards American involvement in another war in the region.

Ferry and a few enthusiastic colonialists, in the face of popular apathy or hostility, were largely responsible for France acquiring Tunisia (1881), northern and central Vietnam (Tonkin and Annam; 1883), Madagascar (1885), and the French Congo (1884 85).

Their influence explains why the government from which Shays demanded relief, and the government that Johnson tried to place more firmly in the hands of the people, has now become the object of popular suspicion and hostility.