Sentence examples for rather inimical from inspiring English sources

The debate between Rawls and his cosmopolitan critics points to the issue of the proper role and status of states: are they indispensable instruments in the pursuit of justice (ideally embodying the principle of the democratic self-determination of peoples), or are they rather inimical to it, because they entrench state interests at the expense of individuals in need?

He was right to emphasize the aspects of Hamas's ideology that are inimical to peace, rather than calling on it to abandon its (radical) Islamic identity.

The lesson of the commission vote is not that the U.N. is inherently inimical to American interests, but rather that Washington has to do a better job of working with other nations if it wants to retain its authority at the U.N.

The virtue of so much of the programme makes it all the more irritating that the scheme is tarnished by association with a policy that relies on style rather than substance - with the little substance it contains being inimical to the interests of responsible democracy.

The Audit Commission has been accused of sending overbearing diktats to local government – inimical to the coalition's dislike of regulation – such as telling councils to carry out fortnightly rather than weekly bin collections.

"I do find literary parties or meetings," he once told Ian Hamilton, "or anything that considers literature, in public, in the abstract rather than concretely, in private, not exactly boring -- it is boring, of course -- but unhelpful and even inimical".

The two things are not inimical.

Disaffected means "ill disposed, unfriendly, inimical".

The sea is violent, dangerous, inimical.

Islam is often held up as inimical to economic progress.

First, they claimed that a "culture" inimical to women existed.