Sentence examples for system of hostilities from inspiring English sources

HG Wells once said that British Liberalism was "a system of hostilities and objections that somehow achieves at times an elusive common soul".

While there were a few battles at Rich Mountain and Romney – large skirmishes, actually – in the mountains and in southwestern Virginia, McClellan, headquartered in Grafton, wrote: "To my great regret I find that the enemies of the United States continue to carry on a system of hostilities prohibited by the laws of war.

But the outbreak of hostilities in 1975 wrecked Lebanon's legislative system.

"This crisis stems from the prolonged occupation and recurrent hostilities, alongside a system of policies that undermine the ability of Palestinians to live normal, selfsustaining lives and realize the full spectrum of their rights, including the right to self-determination".

Hostility was measured using the 20-item Chinese Hostility Inventory Short-Form (CHI-SF) [ 38], which contained four dimensions of hostility: (1) hostile cognition (six items, α =.78); (2) hostile affection (four items, α =.78); (3) expressive hostility (five items, α =.76); and (4) suppressive hostility (five items, α =.73).

Devastated by the years of hostilities, the state had to be reconstructed of three parts with different political, economic, and judicial systems and traditions.

A question of hostilities.

There was no trace of hostilities.

That's the sad paradox of this renewal of hostilities.

That is unlikely to spell the end of hostilities.

Student activists were also predicting a resumption of hostilities.