Sentence examples for serious hostility from inspiring English sources

[Ferguson stoically backed the Glazers in the face of serious hostility from the supporters.

It's that quality that informs serious hostility – you want to kill somebody for whatever reason, or invent a reason, that's where that comes from".

* * * There was a time when Betty Wright felt serious hostility toward hip-hop, a result of repeatedly hearing her music get sampled by artists who had not sought permission to do so.

ONE of the popular stereotypes about Scotland is that it remains, along with Northern Ireland, one of the last places in Europe where members of rival Christian groups view one another with serious hostility.

"Though forceful with Tibetans whom he worked with on his social projects, Akong Rinpoche was very judicious in political matters, avoiding any public assertions in either direction, and is very unlikely to have attracted serious hostility from any side," Professor Barnett said in an e-mail.

Benitez arrived virtually unnoticed in his technical area before kick-off and while he was the target of some chants throughout the first half - and jeers when he picked up the ball to speed up play - the atmosphere never rose to anything approaching serious hostility.

After nearly a decade of playing grand peacemaker, the United States is now trying to simply prevent more serious hostilities, which was its main role in the region at the height of the cold war.

The stages have been animated, as French cycling slang has it, by escape after fruitless escape and one rip-roaring bunch sprint after another, but the serious stuff has been suspended since Wednesday's team time trial and will not begin again until tomorrow, when the 31-mile individual time trial will mark the opening of serious hostilities.

The mayor requested that "all Roanoke Valley governments and non-governmental agencies suspend and delay any further Syrian refugee assistance until these serious hostilities and atrocities end, or at the very least until regarded as under control by the US authorities, and normalcy is restored".

David Bowers, the Democratic mayor of Roanoke, said in a statement that he has asked local agencies to suspend any assistance to Syrian refugees "until these serious hostilities and atrocities end, or at the very least until regarded as under control by U.S. authorities, and normalcy is restored". .

The incident was considered one of the most serious episodes of hostility between North and South in years.