Sentence examples for potential hostility from inspiring English sources

"Not making an issue of it or wearing a badge is the best way to break down potential hostility".

Another failed scholar named Lu Liuliang, whose writings showed evidence of nostalgia for the defeated Ming dynasty and thus of potential hostility to the Manchu dynasty, is treated more harshly.

"The legislature of the state of Texas has not only decided that university classrooms should be less safe than they were before, because they're basically inviting accidents, misjudgments and potential hostility, but they've also decided that the classroom is a potential battlefield instead of a place for contemplation and deliberation".

He received a reminder of the potential hostility he could face to any deal as MPs said his proposals "will not deliver the legally binding and irreversible agreement leading to reform of the EU, nor a fundamental change in the UK's relationships" he had pledged.

The three-level architecture proposed by Wells and Matthews is applied to understanding individual differences in adaptation to the challenges posed by everyday life events, by demanding tasks, and potential hostility in other people.

You'd face the same issue of balancing starvation with satisfied docility, easy distraction via decoy food, and potential hostility towards each other if over-hungry or over-crowded.

Donald Trump on Saturday told a crowd of thousands he was sanguine about potential hostilities between North Korea and its neighbors.

American officials and a Pentagon report from 2009 warn of potential hostilities with Chinese civilian vessels, based in part on two separate incidents last year in which American warships had tense encounters with Chinese boats.

Many captains specialised in this small Sierra Leonean island (including John Newton, who later wrote the hymn "Amazing Grace"), but this area of Africa, known as "the white man's grave", was replete with dangers, not least of which were contagious diseases and potential native hostility.

"During the worst years of confrontation, we still built up a series of treaties and arms agreements and various other agreements to try to tamp down the potential for hostility," said Senator John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who is chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.

The harsh criticism by the Syrian Islamic Liberation Front, however, appeared to portend the potential for hostilities, possibly even armed confrontation with Nusra fighters.