Sentence examples for traditional hostile from inspiring English sources

Among them are a poison pill, which makes a traditional hostile takeover prohibitively expensive, and a staggered board, which prolongs proxy fights.

As patent disputes have effectively taken the place of traditional, often hostile business negotiations, a veto of this ban would be a message to take these proxy battles out of the courtroom and back into the boardrooms where they belong.

New skills: America still may have to fight traditional wars against hostile regimes, but future conflicts are at least as likely to involve guerrilla insurgencies wielding terror tactics or possibly weapons of mass destruction.

Protesters have created their own political space online that is chilly, sometimes openly hostile, toward traditional institutions of the elite.

"If you decide to become a Muslim, this won't save you either, because they think that traditional Islam is also hostile to their goals".

Like the prophets before him, he is at best indifferent and at worst downright hostile to traditional forms of protection against defilement – washing, ringfencing the Sabbath from work, and so on.

Mr. Romney, describing Mr. Obama as hostile to traditional energy sources, repeated his assertion that all of the increase in domestic oil and gas production in the past three years had come on private, not public, lands and that the Obama administration had cut the number of oil and gas drilling permits on public lands in half.

The same range of commentators who lament the passing of traditional styles are as hostile to the styles and modes of independent filmmaking as to the content of the big-budget superhero or action or comic-book movies that take up the bulk of studio investment.

Our agencies suddenly needed to do far more than the traditional mission of monitoring hostile powers and gathering information for policymakers – instead, they were asked to identify and target plotters in some of the most remote parts of the world, and to anticipate the actions of networks that, by their very nature, cannot be easily penetrated with spies or informants.

The significance of the Sisyphus fragment is rather as further evidence of the fact that in the late fifth century the rationalistic approach to the natural world, including human nature, provided the intellectual foundation of a range of views hostile to traditional religion, including explicit atheism.

The population looks up to them as representatives of the 'State', representing a different culture and often perceived as hostile to traditional values [ 57].