Sentence examples for state of animosity from inspiring English sources
They have just been told that the US is not at war with Iraq but rather, in the surreal phrase of Thomas Pickering, the US undersecretary of state for political affairs, in a "state of animosity" with Baghdad.
It is also a reminder that Pakistan is itself a declared nuclear power, in a perpetual state of animosity with India, and has not renounced first use of the bomb.Nevertheless, in a sign of Pakistan's continued importance to America, Paul O'Neill, the Treasury secretary, was in Islamabad this week, holding out the prospect of the cancellation of $1 billion of Pakistani debts.
It is also a reminder that Pakistan is itself a declared nuclear power, in a perpetual state of animosity with India.Nevertheless, in a sign of Pakistan's continued importance to America, Paul O'Neill, the treasury secretary, was in Islamabad this week, holding out the prospect of the cancellation of $1 billion of Pakistani debts.
"I believe there is nothing more important than having Iran as our ally," he said, "because if we fell into a state of animosity with Iran, the whole of Central Asia could be lost to the influence of the Islamic world".
"Racism is a war on reason, so in my state of animosity I wrote Skid Row," Ferraro explains.
Asked whether the rivalry could have developed out of underlying philosophical differences born early on, Miller said it's possible, but not a real excuse for the state of animosity that exists today.
They see potential for bipartisan cooperation on reducing the deficit, passing stalled free-trade pacts and revamping the education bill known as No Child Left Behind — work that Arne Duncan, Mr. Obama's education secretary, says could go a long way toward repairing "the current state of anger and animosity".
The goals stated by Cuba and the U.S. after decades of animosity include elevating diplomatic representations in both countries to full embassies rather than the limited "interests sections".
Ms Colavito says that last year someone "drummed up a bit of animosity", culminating in a protest by some state school pupils.
Considering the level of animosity on either side toward the other, arriving at a one-state solution would be nothing short of miraculous, even by Holy Land standards.
But, rather more unexpectedly, the accords ignited a groundswell of animosity from right-wing Israelis, who feared that Rabin intended to give the Palestinians their own state and carry out widespread evacuations of settlements.
