Sentence examples for standard hostile from inspiring English sources

If Coty wanted to follow standard hostile operating procedure, it would have begun a tender offer and complemented it by nominating its own slate of new directors to be elected at Avon's upcoming annual meeting.

Mr. Alterman said he suspected that The Standard would remain "hostile to Obama and will make people inside the administration angry, and what's the upside to Murdoch?" The News Corporation executive close to Mr. Murdoch said the sale of The Standard to Mr. Anschutz was about handing off the publication to "someone even more enthusiastic about perpetuating that voice".

In a dangerous twist of globalization, these litigants are taking the illiberal standards of environments hostile to free expression and projecting them into those countries that permit free and open inquiry.

The committee recommends that the U.S. work with allied countries to create international cyber standards to deter hostile nations from taking advantage of current gray areas in cyber policy, making it clear that attacks on election systems are "hostile acts".

This was the point at which a lot of folks suddenly realized that the hostile environment standard was a huge wild card.

The online Weekly Standard, which is not usually hostile to unilateral action, lectured the Canadians on the importance of not letting short-term rage run away with the long-term good.

The proposed legislation in any event represents a further retreat from international legal standards by an administration already hostile to them, some scholars said.

In its submission to the Making Prisons Work review, the University and College Union told ministers its members were struggling to maintain standards in an environment increasingly hostile to learning, blaming the competitive retendering system.

This relentlessly hostile rhetoric has become standard issue on the right.

His language remains not merely sloppy or incendiary but openly hostile to the simplest standards of truth and decency that have governed American politics.

Charles Wolf, an analyst at Needham & Company, said: "The competitive environment is becoming increasingly hostile because of the move to standards.