In every country with American bases, any outrage by American servicemen the rape of a Japanese child, the running over of two South Korean girls, the severing of an Italian cable-car's wires tends to strengthen latent hostility.The vigour of anti-American feeling varies strongly even among peoples who, to the casual observer, seem to have no good reason for their differing reactions.
A mobilization of anti-annexation forces in the North strengthened both major parties' hostility toward Tyler's agenda.
Instead, hostilities have strengthened the militia's resolve while undermining that of the government.
What happened on Bloody Sunday strengthened the Provisional IRA, increased nationalist resentment and hostility towards the army and exacerbated the violent conflict of the years that followed.
"We don't have any intention to go to war again, but it is now up to the southern government to either strengthen its state without hostility, or to disturb us," said a Sudanese government spokesman, Rabie A. Atti.
"So the problem," they write, "is this: the kind of rewards that might reduce the Kim regime's hostility will strengthen that regime and will therefore prove unpopular among democratic donor states".
If people think British workers' rights will be strengthened by leaving the EU, they should consider how much the Eurosceptic arguments have involved hostility to the EU social chapter's protection of workers.
But attempts to encourage the squatters to leave and hostility from the residents of the neat lines of houses below them—have only strengthened their determination to stay where they are.
There's a strong case to be made that Republican hostility to legal abortion was the main reason that Democrats not only retained but actually strengthened their hold on the Senate.
However, as the hostility between the East and West developed into the Cold War, especially after the issuing of the Truman Doctrine in 1947, Turkey strengthened its ties with the West.
