Sentence examples for so inimical from inspiring English sources

A result so inimical to both majority rule and individual civic equality was bound to inflict damage on the fabric of comity.

Yet Mrs May leads a party in which a substantial minority view such a practical move as so inimical to their identity that it borders on treason.

It wasn't so long ago that private foundations could be established only by an act of Congress, in part because they were considered so inimical to democracy.

Finian's Rainbow, for instance, is much the best horse in the Amlin Chase but giving 10lbs to CAPTAIN CHRIS (2.10) in conditions so inimical to his brilliance will not be easy.

A few inland aquatic ecosystems such as hot springs and highly saline lakes have conditions so inimical to life that biological diversity is restricted, trophic levels are correspondingly simple, and energetic and biogeochemical processes are compressed.

When Raff goes to Harvard, he is amazed at the confrontational behavior of its radical environmentalists, so inimical to Southern culture, just as Dr. Wilson was when attacked by left-leaning Harvard colleagues over his book "Sociobiology".

Few ideas can be so apparently inimical to the spirit of our age.

On the face of it, working within the parameters of opera might seem inimical to so belligerently anti-bourgeois an outfit as La Fura dels Baus.

"When liberty is construed realistically, not merely a minimum of civil and political rights but securities that the economically weak will not be at the mercy of the economically strong … a large measure of equality, so far from being inimical to liberty, is essential to it".

If anything, the soil seemed inimical to life: there was so much iron in it that any whiff of oxygen was quickly bound into rust.

So exercises of power tend to be inimical to moral development, and governments should use their power mostly to minimize the degree to which power gets exercised elsewhere.