Sentence examples for worst hostile from inspiring English sources

To us, the South Vietnamese population seemed at best indifferent and at worst hostile to their central government.

At worst, hostile disruptions of the Iranian program could accelerate it by pushing the country's leaders to abandon the restraints Iran has already accepted.

It's an environment that's at best indifferent and at worst hostile to traditional media brands; but for this new breed of page operator, it's mostly upside.

All represent attempts to find a home in an environment at worst hostile, at best indifferent, a terrain which resists the shapely categories of European pastoralism and romanticism.

Like most major orchestras, the New York Philharmonic has a segment of subscribers who are at best wary of, and at worst hostile to, new music.

This realisation pushes us, as urban practitioners, to rethink the roles of architects and planners in a context where the government is at best indifferent and at worst hostile to the local development of neighbourhoods.

Each year tens of thousands of unaccompanied migrant children cross the southern border of the US to confront an immigration system that is at best ill-prepared and at worst unapologetically hostile.

"Many same-sex couples are raising children in states that have a legal environment that is at best not supportive and at worst openly hostile toward them and their families," Ghaziani writes.

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.

We're served by a shockingly under-resourced education system and we have a mass culture at best indifferent to change and at worst openly hostile.

At worst, they sound hostile to democracy.