(n.) State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity.
(n.) An act of an open enemy; a hostile deed; especially in the plural, acts of warfare; attacks of an enemy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some of their most cherished objectives, such as parliamentary reform, have been left as roadkill by the juggernauts of Tory and Labour hostility.
(2) Mars is a much more hostile environment than people realise, they point out.
(3) It's an attractive idea, and yet pride in Europe appears to be giving way to populism and hostility within the union.
(4) But even among the most hostile voters, only a third put Europe among the most crucial issues facing the country.
(5) Afghan officials in the past have expressed fears that soldiers sent to Pakistan could be recruited as spies or that their careers would be stunted by the deep hostility that Afghans harbour towards Pakistan.
(6) Michael Holroyd, in his biography of George Bernard Shaw , gives an illuminating example of myopic hostility to Russia by the right even when we desperately needed allies.
(7) Overall, these results suggest that future research should investigate variables in addition to hostility in regard to risk for and protection from CHD.
(8) As important, if not more so, as his ambition to make exams tougher is his hostility towards other measures of ability, such as course work and controlled assessments.
(9) Journalists are being told to speak to public affairs office, but the public affairs office doesn't call them back or is hostile."
(10) Green groups were hostile or reacted cautiously to the report.
(11) To assess physiological and psychological states accompanying anabolic-androgenic steroid use, male weight lifters 1) were interviewed regarding their physical training and the patterns and effects of any drug use; 2) completed a written physical and medical history questionnaire, a Profile of Mood States questionnaire, and the Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory; and 3) were physically examined, including a blood sample and urinalysis.
(12) The sugar tax was greeted with hostility by the industry and Wright argues that the levy, introduced by the chancellor in the budget , will be undermined by flawed analysis of its impact.
(13) Murdoch had one on his, of course, but because he was facing hostile interrogation he looked (unfairly) as if he were wearing it in self-protection as a symbol of his own virtue.
(14) Tory MEP Nirj Deva was one of several deputies to subject Mr Nielson to hostile questioning.
(15) Yet, the long list of allegations included no statement from Kenneth Bae, other than claims that he confessed and didn't want an attorney present during his sentencing last week for what Pyongyang called hostile acts against the state.
(16) We are effectively now placed in co-sovereignty with a hostile power.
(17) The inquiry’s chairman, Sir Thayne Forbes, a former high court judge, concluded in 2014 that the most serious claims were “deliberate lies, reckless speculation and ingrained hostility”.
(18) Faced with ever growing hostility to the EU, and to immigration, Clegg has decided to present the Liberal Democrats unambiguously as the party of "in" and of openness.
(19) The aim of this study was to determine how individual differences in cynical hostility and defensiveness interacted with situational demands to affect cardiovascular responses in a natural setting.
(20) The Saudis and other Gulf states still support rebel fighting formations – as much because of inertia and hostility to Iran as anything else – but western backing is on a downward trajectory as concerns mount about the risks of blowback from al-Qaida-linked groups.
Warpath
Definition:
(n.) The route taken by a party of Indians going on a warlike expedition.
Example Sentences:
(1) This will anger Washington, which is already on the warpath over what it perceives as partial targeting of the big US digital companies by the EU.
(2) But for now, wheels are in motion and tensions are bubbling over: Elsa is surely about to be outed as the devil woman she truly is, one of the twins looks sure for the chop, Del is on the warpath, and Dandy has just invited Jimmy into his house, which probably won’t end well for anyone.
(3) This was partly because Crow was wont to warn negotiators that his executive was on the warpath and he would need concessions to keep them happy.
(4) Clooney is not the only star on the warpath against the title.
(5) Its most heralded passage, as the ACLU quickly pointed out , did nothing more than call for the "ultimate" repeal of the AUMF; "the time to take our country off the global warpath and fully restore the rule of law is now," said the ACLU's executive director Anthony Romero, "not at some indeterminate future point."
(6) Declaring he hated ragwort, the Tory MP said he was “on the warpath for those who let this vile weed spread”, prompting anger from experts who said at least 30 insect and 14 fungi species are entirely reliant on ragwort.
(7) Throughout the election, Trump – via social media and the new rightwing online media – went on the warpath against the established press.
(8) It may not be the issue of the moment but I am on the warpath for those who let this vile weed spread.
(9) "[He] is right to say that we cannot be on a war footing forever – but the time to take our country off the global warpath and fully restore the rule of law is now, not at some indeterminate future point."
(10) He has been on the warpath lately talking up the dangers of cyberattacks, yet this push for encryption backdoors is handing cybercriminals a giant gift.
(11) The meaning there seems plain – no more guaranteed bonuses – but the Financial Services Authority has been on that warpath for some time.
(12) Within days of being elected, several of the new intake were on the warpath against their government's plans to render rape defendants anonymous, and a handful are now serial rebels.
(13) And this week, economics students from Kolkata to Manchester have gone on the warpath demanding radical changes in what they're taught.
(14) With the Americans on the "warpath", says Dotcom, there seems little chance of the dispute ending amicably.