Sentence examples for wide hostility from inspiring English sources

Despite wide hostility towards General Musharraf and admiration for Mr Chaudhry, the Pakistani masses have shown no inclination to rise up—so far.Almost all of those detained belong to the tiny, politically active portion of Pakistani society that tends to be arrested in such times.

The students have complained that the treatment of the dismissed students reflects wider hostility toward Asian-Americans at the school.

Another factor is the wider hostility of Conservative ministers and the board of the Charity Commission towards campaigning by British charities since 2012.

However, organisations that work on reproductive health and Aids argue that the decision betrays the Bush administration's wider hostility to abortion.

It was an attempt to reassure industry and finance that the populist assaults on unjustified pay, bonuses and share options – not least his own assaults – do not mean that Britain is going to embrace the wider hostility to capitalism entrenched in much of France.

The contest there is so close that any decision in London on military action might tip a vital fringe of Scottish voters into the "Yes" camp given the wider hostility to what some might see as "London's wars".

With that mission accomplished, Mullen gave serious thought to ways to prevent any unintended (or, for that matter, deliberately provoked) incidents in the crowded Persian Gulf that could lead to wider hostilities.

Surrounding the insurgency is the wider, implacable hostility between India and Pakistan.

This attitude resonates with a much wider American hostility to government: Confederates are seen as having been faithful to American libertarian traditions.

This week, the United Nations said that Ukraine's death toll had reached nearly 9,500, including as many as 2,000 civilians, and warned of a possible "re-escalation of wide-scale hostilities". And on Friday, the European Union formally extended economic sanctions against Russia for another six months amid mounting pressure to lift these, despite the failing peace deal.

They also started wider European hostilities by sending ultimata to Russia and France, and by declaring war when those ultimata were rejected - indeed fabricating a pretext that French aircraft had bombed Nuremberg.