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hostile English
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Topics hostile topics
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Simple sentences
Tom feels hostile towards his neighbours.
The Soviet Union took a hostile attitude toward us.
I met with a cool, not to say hostile, reception.
The police tried to separate the two hostile gangs.
Many of us are hostile to the consumption tax.
I don't feel hostile toward you.
She is hostile to me.
Moreover, the sweeping change brought by modernity and globalization led many Muslims to view the West as hostile to the traditions of Islam.
Make sure every hostile has been neutralized.
I've got a visual on a hostile.
I've got a visual on a possible hostile.
This submarine can operate in the most hostile conditions on the planet.
Venus has a hostile environment.
Tom has a hostile attitude.
Movie subtitles
We found a few rocky planets with hard surfaces, but they're many times more massive than Earth and contain the most hostile environments you could ever imagine.
Amazingly, this life thrived in an extremely hostile environment, which meant we needed to expand our narrow view of where life might be found.
We have to understand that life will evolve under conditions which seem horribly hostile, horribly alien.
You're being very hostile.
A snowball in his hands could become as hostile as the knives of Spain.
Only to find either barren rocks or hostile inhabitants.
Newspapers hostile to Zola are permitted to threaten and intimidate the jury.
She's hostile to all the guards.
To the gallant officers and men of the silent service to our submarines, now on war patrol in hostile waters good luck and good hunting.
I'll not be treated as a hostile witness by my own flesh and blood.
You're apparently going to be a very hostile witness in this case.
Very good, My Lord, if I'm not to be allowed to show one of the reasons for the witness' hostile attitude towards my client.
I submit that I cannot hope to argue this line. before minds hostile to and prejudiced against the female sex.
Are those hostile Indians?
A hostile tribe.
I don't understand, Sir, why these northern tribes are so hostile.
But during the war hostile Indians massacred our settlers there.
This is a hostile country.
I think it's within your Lordship's discretion in the circumstances.. To allow me to cross-examine her, as a hostile witness. Any objection, Sir Alan?
At the guardianship proceedings. I shall testify that your intentions are not only unsympathetic. to my grandnephew's best interests, but hostile to them.
Are those hostile indians? - Rejoin the column. - Captain Brittles!
Why so hostile?
Would he find people hostile?
These characters are very hostile indeed.
Why is he so hostile to You?
That's your privilege, and it's quite correct but for the sake of our country let's not air our dirty linen here, before an often hostile press.
Why are you so hostile?
I heard that a band of hostile Comanches came through less than a week ago.
The majority of the Cossacks are hostile to us.
Lieutenant Grigory Melekhov, hostile to the Soviet government.
She is always hostile to me.
You're so quiet, almost hostile.
Hostile Indians, I expect.
It was courage, skill and speed against hostile Indians, bandits, hell and occasional high water.
Andre must be hostile.
Andre is not hostile.
Forgive me This house gives me a strange feeling, I don't know, I'm scared. I feel everything is hostile, even the cat.
They are hostile, these Sensorites, but in the strangest possible ways.
Otherwise, we shall know the Daleks are hostile to us.
Well, they didn't seem hostile.
News and current affairs
This dream quickly faded when the Cold War divided the world into two hostile blocs.
It is no coincidence that terrorism thrives in societies that are intrinsically hostile to today's modernizing values and belief in individual autonomy.
Israel and Iran, two non-Arab powers in a hostile Arab environment, shared fundamental interests that the Islamic revolution could not change.
As an anti-status quo power, Iran is not pursuing nuclear capabilities in order to destroy Israel, but to gain prestige and influence in a hostile environment and as a shield for its challenge to the regional order.
Moreover, Obama has been confronted with significant constraints, including the global economic crisis, domestic political polarization, a hostile Congress, and the rise of emerging powers that need the US but are unwilling to accept its dominance.
There must be a tipping point at which some combination of higher taxation, more burdensome regulation, and a hostile political climate causes financial firms to relocate.
It implies that whole territories and the populations living there are to be considered hostile.
The baroque structure of US government has always been hostile to the effective exercise of fiscal policy.
The Damascus meeting reflects Iran's view of Israeli-Arab peace as a major strategic threat, because it would condemn it to isolation in a hostile Arab environment free of its conflict with Israel.
So, could the fall of Bo lead to a more open society, less hostile to dissident voices?
But the government is caught between a rock and a hard place, hemmed in by a parliament that, strongly backed by a bank-hostile press and public opinion, is eager to enact reforms, and by EU directives to implement a tougher regime.
It fails, for example, to take into account the hostile strategic culture against the US--and against US strategic goals in the Asian and Pacific regions-- that has long been ingrained within the PLA.
And that becomes much more difficult in a world where governments find it hard to tell where cyber attacks come from, whether from a hostile state or a group of criminals masking as a foreign government.
A more useful definition of cyber waris hostile action in cyberspace whose effects amplify or are equivalent to major physical violence.
This dream quickly faded when the Cold War divided the world into two hostile blocs. But in some ways the 1945 consensus, in the West, was strengthened by Cold War politics.
It has created a more hostile environment for development.
In such a difficult domestic situation, North Korea's leaders may adopt more hostile policies to obtain economic aid from both South Korea and the United States.
Some blame Obama's own fears about repeating his predecessors' mistakes; others blame a hostile Congress for tying his hands.
As a result, the US Congress appears to be growing more hostile toward a deal; indeed, the longer it takes to conclude a final agreement, the more likely Congress is to scupper it.
Is poor economic development in much of the Middle East and Central Asia the result of cultural practices that are hostile to economic growth?
The clincher came when large deposits of natural gas were found in Burma, which, it was clear, would not be available to an India deemed hostile to the junta.
Western governments were typically indifferent, if not hostile, to African liberation movements.
Cohabitation could very soon become a problem even in the quasi-democracy of Hong Kong, if voters there on September 12 elect a legislature hostile to Tung Chee-hwa, the territory's Beijing-anointed chief executive, later this month.
Now consider fiscal policy. The baroque structure of US government has always been hostile to the effective exercise of fiscal policy.
Regional policymakers nowadays are loath to risk this progress through hostile behavior.