Sentence examples for the hostile position from inspiring English sources

Realizing the danger to the column as it lay motionless, Lt. Col. Page fought his way to the head of the column and plunged forward into the heart of the hostile position.

As the citation put it, "His dauntless leadership and personal courage so inspired his men that they stormed into the hostile position and used their bayonets with such lethal effect that the enemy fled in wild disorder".

While Trump won praise from some quarters for the speech, not everyone is convinced by his words, saying he needs to show concrete action before they believe he has really changed from the hostile position he repeatedly expressed on the campaign trail.

That was no easy task given the hostile position of some of our own Member States, not least the United Kingdom, to any mention at all of core labour standards in the final declaration.

Instead, you'll be playing "the other side"—the predatory force scouting out the hostile positions and trying to remain hidden until you're ready to strike.

One postcard quoted former Mayor Edward I. Koch, who endorsed the Republican candidate, Bob Turner, as saying that if voters in Brooklyn and Queens turned against the Democratic favorite, David I. Weprin, "it might very well cause President Obama to change his hostile position on the State of Israel and to re-establish the special relationship that presidents before him had supported".

Just to give you a taster, here is Lord Mandelson on the role of the media: "It is very striking that the combined effect of News International, Daily Mail newspapers, the Telegraph, but in the middle of that the figure of Rupert Murdoch more importantly than any other has driven the media to a more hostile position than it was when we went into the then European Community in the 1970s.

Legrand's management retained a consistently hostile position towards the takeover effort, regularly rejecting planned merger efforts between the two companies.

Newly elected and facing staggering economic problems at home despite the country's oil wealth, Maduro appears to have made a high-pitched, openly hostile position against the Obama administration a cornerstone of his government's foreign policy.

"I think there's a danger when you adopt an immediately hostile position without having the goods, without having the smoking gun.

JERUSALEM — Israeli authorities on Monday expelled Richard Falk, a United Nations investigator of human rights in the Palestinian territories, saying he was unwelcome because of what the government has regarded as his hostile position toward Israel.