Sentence examples for proved hostile from inspiring English sources

And Nepal, much the bigger and trickier of the two, has proved hostile to Indian investment and political interference.

In the pen, David Weathers, Grant Roberts, Scott Strickland, and Armando Benitez have proved hostile and unflappable.

But constitutional government was never restored; the amnesty granted on the pope's return was riddled with exceptions; and to all expressions of national sentiment the papacy proved hostile.

But Republicans proved hostile to McConnell's idea, precisely because it would deprive them of most of their leverage, and he quickly abandoned it.

Although critics proved hostile, with César Cui calling the symphony "routine" and "meretricious", both works were received with extreme enthusiasm by audiences and Tchaikovsky, undeterred, continued to conduct the symphony in Russia and Europe.

Local Oxford opinion proving hostile to such views, Faulkner in 1957 and 1958 readily accepted semester-long appointments as writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

Now, if the law makes it through two more readings — which it certainly will — it will no longer be necessary to prove hostile intent to sentence someone to 12 to 20 years behind bars.

Mr. Clinton hoped to keep scientists and engineers of the former superpower occupied in peaceful activities rather than selling their expertise to countries that might prove hostile to American interests.

Again, the iron hand on the tiller, concentration on the outer ring, and careful curbs on his candidate, protecting him from territory that might prove hostile as well as journalists who might cause problems.

Time and time again, our regulatory structure proves hostile to innovation challenging the status quo; attempting to regulate this technology by drawing legitimacy from laws old enough to remember the Model-T.

Tech companies large and small compile data on their customers, and the specter of all of that private cloud-based data looms larger than ever under the Trump administration, which is widely expected to prove hostile to many forms of privacy, both online and offline.