Sentences with phrase «described as a hostile»

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

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.

Prior to the Court's ruling, his attitude toward Arizona could best be described as hostile.

Not exact matches

The agreement has yet to be ratified by the U.S. Congress, and it has often been described, especially by the Chinese press, as the economic component of U.S. President Barack Obama's pivot to Asia and hostile to Chinese membership.

The complaint describes the «conspiracy» as «an act of previously unimaginable treachery: the campaign of the presidential nominee of a major party in league with a hostile foreign power to bolster its own chance to win the presidency,» adding that WikiLeaks «disseminated the information at times when it would best suit the Trump campaign.»

U.S. government leaders and an «objective» press described the Sandinistas in Nicaragua as «communist,» «Marxist,» «Marxist / Leninist,» «totalitarian,» «Cuban - backed,» or «Soviet - backed» so often that few U.S. citizens knew that Sweden was giving more aid to Nicaragua per capita than to any other country or that while Nicaragua does have both a Communist party and a Marxist - Leninist party these two parties together received less than 3 percent of the vote and are distinct from and hostile to the Sandinista party.

Micro-aggressions are described by Chester M Pierce as: brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults toward people of other races.

Micro-aggressions are described by Chester M Pierce as: brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults toward people -LSB-...]

[17] The following month Loughton tabled «hostile» parliamentary questions to the Department of Education on the subject of complaints by staff, which the Independent described as «a significant escalation of hostilities» between Loughton and some of his old colleagues.

Napo, the probation union described the move to agency status as a hostile prison «takeover.»

Gavin Williamson has been described by one hostile Tory MP as «a real slimeball» and by another as a «self - serving c ****.

Cuomo since taking office has sought to exert a more business friendly attitude than his immediate predecessors, seeking to turn around a business climate that has been described by the fiscally conservative as hostile due in large part to the state's taxes.

A lobbyist for a left - wing organization that pushed the bill described Mr. Wright as» dismissively hostile» toward the 2014 legislation.

Benjamin described Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who supported the idea of a constitutional convention during his 2010 campaign for governor, as «not hostile, but not engaged» more recently.

Both sources described the trip as a «private humanitarian mission» to free Gomes, a 31 year - old Boston resident who was sentenced in April to eight years at a hard labor camp for illegally crossing North Korea's border with China and for an unspecified «hostile act.»

He also insisted today that he would not describe government policy on illegal immigrants as a «hostile environment» - despite Mrs May championing the stance.

I'd probably describe it as «user - hostile,» actually.

That marks a sharp change in tone from previous superintendents, which local charter school founder Earl Phalen described as flat - out hostile to charter schools.

A former student described her school's relationship with the local district - run high school as «indifferent to slightly hostile».

The AKC describes the ideal German Shepherd as having a distinct personality marked by direct and fearless, but not hostile, expression, self - confidence, and a certain aloofness that does not lend itself to immediate and indiscriminate friendships.

Described by Sony as an unnerving VR space adventure set on a hostile alien planet, your mission is to to pick up scientists studying an anomaly near Jupiter, before a rupture transports you to an unknown alien world.

Then there are the superb images by South African photographer Zanele Muholi, a gay woman in a country that's still worryingly hostile to the LGBTQ community: as recently as 2009 the country's then Minister of Arts and Culture Lulu Xingwana described Muholi's portraits of nude lesbian couples as «immoral» and «against nation - building.»

Invisible Adversaries was chosen as a touchstone for the exhibition because the condition it describes, where a hostile force (what EXPORT in her film describes as «Hyksos») circles around the protagonist and also infiltrates her mind, connects with the ways artists approach their adversaries: not as obvious enemies to overthrow but as complex relationships that are a profound part of our history and personal lives.

Instead of the hostile and vitriolic reception originally accorded The Dinner Party by the mainstream critics, it was hailed by Roberta Smith in the New York Times who described the piece as ``... almost as much a part of American culture as Norman Rockwell, Walt Disney, the WPA murals and the AIDS quilts.»

I know that earlier Forster & Gregory inconsistently describe the conclusion as the «suggestion» of a relatively small climate sensitivity, but in the light of their aforementioned subsequent statement about robustness I see that as likely to have been a sop to a reviewer who was hostile to their conclusion.

Kirleis describes the workplace environment at the firm as «pervasively hostile towards women.»

The investigators describe gender harassment as «a broad range of verbal and nonverbal behaviors not aimed at sexual cooperation but that convey insulting, hostile, and degrading attitudes about women.»

He was described as having a hostile attitude towards the government.

Overall, the system is perhaps best described as a proposal for how the Lightning Network could manage trade - offs between performance, scalability and centralization while offering a network model that does not assume hostile behavior.

There's the obvious form of sexism, «hostile sexism», as they describe.

I received a copy of this proposal, which briefly described parental alienation as follows: The essential feature of parental alienation is that a child — usually one whose parents are engaged in a hostile divorce — allies himself or herself strongly with one parent (the preferred parent) and rejects a relationship with the other parent (the alienated parent) without legitimate justification.