"hostile" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They were glaring at him in a manner he deemed distinctly hostile.
- A takeover is deemed hostile when the target company's management objects to the deal.
- Its activities were deemed hostile toward the government and led to the prosecution, exile, imprisonment and even murder of people associated with it.
- Judge Hand threatened at the time that if reversed, he might outlaw textbooks he deemed hostile to religion.
- The witness will be deemed hostile," says Radovich.
- After the 1989 government crackdown in Tiananmen Square, avant-garde art was often banned from being shown here because it was deemed hostile or anti-authoritarian.
- As the paper is opposed to the EU it has referred to foreign leaders who it deemed hostile to the UK in unflattering terms.
- A security official claimed police found documents deemed hostile to the nation in his apartment, AP reports.
- In 1931, United passed a number of economic measures which Labour deemed hostile to workers, and the agreement between the two parties collapsed.
- Strangers who approach closer than this may be deemed hostile, belligerent, or sexually motivated.
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