Sentences with phrase «as hostile»

I'd walk into rooms that were just as hostile as any rooms I have ever been in — and I worked at a railroad — so it was pretty significant.

We can be sure that such licensing will be seen as a hostile act.

But, due to modern diets and lifestyles, the good guys can drop in numbers, allowing for what you might want to think of as a hostile takeover.

The theological term for this is: you can see reality as gracious — not as hostile, not as indifferent, but as gracious.

Past research shows that individuals more heavily involved on an issue, such as climate scientists, often tend to view even objectively favorable media coverage as hostile to their goals.

The report makes some key points which are sometimes overlooked as the hostile press and media attempt to paint as bleak a picture as possible.

The president - elect has taken what is widely seen as a hostile stance toward the scientific community.

The tide of the blind continued to rise, at the same rate as hostile gossip about them.

Though it reads as hostile, it does leave the door open to eventual implementation.

Even then the department was seen as hostile to improving efficiency and using alternative energy.

Democratic Senate lawmakers tried — and failed — to force a vote on gun control via a parliamentary gambit, attaching proposals to an existing bill, a move known as a hostile amendment, trying to make the Republican leadership to formally vote them down in an election year.

The women who described the army environment as hostile — a place where they felt targeted by sexual comments and unwanted advances — were six times more likely to have been raped over the course of their career.

Before Paige can free Jakob from what she perceives as hostile environment, she falls victim to a horrific assault at his hands.

ADM unsuccessfully tried to buy GrainCorp for $ 3 billion in 2013 after initially raiding the company's register in a move previous managing director Alison Watkins viewed as a hostile act.

For example, the Vice-owned creative agency Carrot is said to have fostered what many described as a hostile work environment for women.

Although many of us may increasingly view the world as a hostile place in which to raise children, a place in which even Beaver Cleaver would be at risk, the solution of constructing taller walls around our families and double locking the front door in order to keep out a seemingly toxic culture is unrealistic.

As financiers funding going concern operations as well as resource conversions such as hostile takeovers, mergers and acquisitions, going privates, starting up new activities; and also restructuring capitalizations for either healthy or distressed companies

This is known as hostile work environment harassment.

They are just as hostile as the prohibitionists towards Santa Claus and other Christmas fads.

The poisoning, in southern England, has united much of the West in taking action against what it regards as the hostile policies of President Vladimir Putin.

«I think you're going to see more performances like that from the White House briefing room because it sends the message that, basically, the press office has done all it can to get its message out to the media, and that they're being treated as a hostile witness by aggressive reporters,» he said.

I do think customers should stop perceiving DRM as a hostile act and an accusation against them personally.

A question like that wouldn't be asked by his own lawyer, it would be asked on cross-examination or on a direct treated as a hostile witness, both of which would allow leading questions.

That reasoning did not stop Senate Democrats, who are in the minority in that house, from attempting to place the bill on the Senate floor for a vote, in what's known as a hostile amendment.

She also writes that as a result of the fracas «the authorities have come across as hostile and the faithful no longer have their place of prayer.»

He may misinterpret others behavior as hostile or aggressive leading him to act out in response to the aggression with aggression in return.

Silicon Valley is often described as a hostile place for women.

Litigators got ta litigate, and in a deal as hostile as this one, if you have a clever lawsuit idea you run with it.

In response, my conference brought the APPLE Plan as a hostile amendment to the bill, suggesting it be added to their non-comprehensive and limited bill.

The problem was that Rubio's speech was preceded by Clint Eastwood's Oscar - worthy performance as a hostile satire of a confused, irritable, out - of - touch, elderly white Republican.

Niebuhr comments, if you do see reality as hostile and threatening, of course what you will try to do, then, is to protect yourself as much as you can from this hostile and devouring force that's going to get us all.

Though the rivalry between the Red Sox and Yankees is not quite as hostile as it has been in years past, the talent on the field is as good as ever.

The Democrats are (not so) secretly planning to force their Republican colleagues into voting on the issue today — by introducing the stalled proposals as hostile amendments.

Democrats in the New York state Senate say they will push harder for gun control bills in the wake of the Florida shooting that left 17 dead and are even considering proposing the measures as hostile amendments.

In June, Stec presented a bill as a hostile amendment that would have made the dueling senate and assembly forfeiture bills that were being debated at the time match each other.

Stefanik also supports a East Coast Missile Defense Site at Fort Drum, calling it «reckless» to leave the East Coast open to attack as hostile foreign powers advance their military capabilities.

Respondents who held firmly to traditional gender roles and can be described as hostile sexists perceived a man whose wife retained her surname as being disempowered.

Something we'd like to see in Red Dead Redemption 2 is a version of that cheat which globally sets all animals to regard you as friendly, but other NPCs as hostile.

(4) This objection smacks to me of the kind of allergy that a people habituated to thinking of science as hostile to its principles can manifest even to legitimate advances.

For instance, the neural - activation patterns elicited by Black male faces in this region were more similar to those elicited by objectively angry faces, even when such faces did not display any actual angry features (e.g., due to stereotypes of Black individuals as hostile).

Here are five of the major moves many see as hostile toward science — and as sobering indicators of the world the scientific community could be facing after January 20:

The inherent problems with MBO go - shops include the fact that «incumbent management has the best insight into the company's value, or at least is perceived to,» and many prospective buyers are reluctant to outbid an insider, like Michael Dell, out of fear of being branded as a hostile takeover artist.

Transgender - rights activists remain wary, depicting Vice President - elect Mike Pence and some members of Trump's transition team as hostile to their causes.

Many businesses view Russia as a hostile market because of its much - publicized moves to restrict foreign investment in economic sectors considered strategic to the state.

After all, she said, Amazon won't benefit if its workers can't find places to live, or if they are viewed by existing residents as a hostile force.

Analysts said the Turkish president was using the crisis to show voters that his strong leadership was needed against a Europe he routinely presents as hostile.