Sentence examples for uncongenial from inspiring English sources

But even if his company is uncongenial, the boarding house will soon be left far behind.

I'm sure she'd understand that obscure and tangential efforts to deter the PA from adopting negotiating strategies that are uncongenial to US interests trump such peripheral issues as feeding starving kids.

The likelihood is that such elections will be carefully manipulated to ensure that nobody uncongenial to the authorities in Beijing gains any power.

In fact, Senator Pinochet may find uncongenial a life in which others talk back rather than obey orders.

He wrote that the spirit which informs "the vast stream of European and American civilization in which we all stand", and especially its dependence on technology, was "alien and uncongenial" to him.

The male has a four-headed penis; the offspring (known as a puggle) hatches from an egg and lives in its mother's pouch until its growing spines make it an uncongenial companion.

But that does not prove that their voters cannot grasp the democratic idea, only that voters' choices can be uncongenial to the few who have power and are prepared neither to yield nor share it.

It may be harder in the second term for Mr Blair to bridge the gap between the EU and an American administration with uncongenial views on climate change, missile defence, China and the Middle East.

Mr Muis says that once he started to say things that were uncongenial, he was subjected to "a certain amount of arm-twisting".

Really looking for a job often means facing the terror of a move to some far, alien and uncongenial place when one would much rather remain nestled among family and friends in a familiar cosy burg where there are no jobs.

The imperialism of the Liberal prime minister, Lord Rosebery, was totally uncongenial to young pro-Boer Liberals like Lloyd George.