Sentence examples for show of hostility from inspiring English sources

That early show of hostility set the tone for lasting mistrust.

On Saturday, a forum of five Democratic mayoral candidates on the topic of public housing turned into a startling show of hostility toward the woman regarded as the front-runner in the New York race, Christine C. Quinn.

I don't think he sees anything to be gained yet by making a show of hostility; better for him to let the Republicans take the political fall for not cooperating.

This treaty was rejected by the Whigs, mainly as a show of hostility toward the Tyler administration.

Still, the campaign was accompanied by sporadic shows of hostility.

Other stout denials may also be revised.The government also still shows signs of hostility to Sri Lankan Tamils.

Previous studies have identified that women with addictive behavior show high levels of hostility, when compared with women from the general population [ 50] and show no differences in the levels experienced by males [ 51].

"They are certainly going to show a lot of hostility to renewables and Britain is going to get left behind".

Until now, Popcorn, a captive male deer in a little zoo near Atlantic City, had been a docile sort, typically roaming his one-acre wooded pen without showing any sign of hostility toward his keepers, local officials said.

Wessel's reporting shows how years of hostility to government oversight — taken to extremes by Bernanke's predecessor as Fed chairman, Alan Greenspan — left the institutions designed to check financial irresponsibility so unequal to their task.

"But when I was on foot patrol, I'd start thinking, the people who are smiling at me, who aren't showing any signs of hostility, will they be the ones who try to kill me?