Sentences with phrase «even hostility»

Then, what began as low - level insecurity and apprehension may have been transformed into an empty pit of fear, jealousy, and perhaps even hostility.

Sleep deprivation, depression and anxiety which can lead to emotional distance and even hostility.

liz: It is unsupported that «loving fathers» are in an environment in which they are regarded with «suspicion and even hostility.»

In parallel to the feeling of support, there has been a deep sense of surrounding indifference, even hostility.

This is because, by the nature of child custody disputes themselves, it has been demonstrated that there is a certain degree of animosity and even hostility between the parties to the case.

All of the aforementioned problems have created a culture of public apathy, indifference, or even hostility towards the justice system.

Australia is already viewed with exasperation, sometimes even hostility, by the international community, and it is unlikely to be sympathetic to our claims when we decide to re-enter the process later on.

We know states are changing their tests to align to the new standards, and those changes have inevitably bred uncertainty, anxiety, and even hostility, especially when results could carry high stakes someday.

Feelings of loneliness, isolation, discouragement, and even hostility, towards the host culture could be experienced.

Bonding social capital that increases distrust on people outside one's social group results in more exclusivity and even hostility; it works against planetary stability and peace.

Sometimes people who embark on over 50 dating as a new thing — whether as a result of bereavement or divorce — encounter some doubt, even hostility from their loved ones.

I used to try, like her and almost all young theologians and ministers, to reform the church to become more open - minded, less discriminatory and more inclusive, only to be met with stubbornness and even hostility.

Certainly the most obvious pitfall is that of reluctance to, and even hostility toward, listening to the vital components of the community, the residents themselves.

[22] It is clear that the process of responding to the BEM document, and the insights that it contains, has not been free of friction and even hostility.

This Christian theism had so permeated the colonial mind that it continued to guide even those who had come to regard the Gospel with indifference or even hostility.

These changes often have been driven as much by Chinese bankers» need to please a varied group of regulators — whose own institutional biases are exacerbated by the competition, and even hostility, that exists among them — as by economic and financial factors.2

But we can, along with the authors of this document, thank God that «we have come a long distance from the disunity, suspicions and even hostilities that characterized our relationships for generations.»

Not exact matches

As tensions rise, the arbiters of global finance are reluctant to even entertain the possibility that financial hostilities could escalate.

Russia, whose relations with the West have deteriorated to levels of Cold War - era hostility, has denied any gas attack took place in Douma and even accused Britain of staging it to whip up anti-Russian hysteria.

Even as hostilities return, Nigeria is unlikely to support an output freeze that would strangle its already struggling oil sector.

When this happens, even the best attempts to offer further insight, share another viewpoint or offer gentle instruction is met with hostility.

Reading the comments to this article, it's clear that Christianity provokes a lot of mocking and hostility, even in the supposedly tolerant west.

Oddly, CNN will happily use the label «persecuted» when it suits them in reference to even the perception of hostility among other groups:

«Even the Foreign Office,» Northcott informs us, «now believes that the rhetoric of «war on terror» has advanced Islamic hostility toward Britain around the world.»

But even though European government and social hostility toward religious groups grew in 2015, the region still falls far below the Middle East — North Africa.

There was no weakening of the power of Rome and hostility to Jesus and His message seemed to increase; even the disciples began to doubt whether God's kingdom was going to come or not.

I repeat: I hope I am wrong; but I am, all the same, beginning to wonder if the warm support with which even quite unexpected people in our hierarchy (like Bishop Hollis) greeted the establishment of the Ordinariate this time round (you will remember the hostility with which they squashed a similar but less radical basic idea in the Nineties) was really as wholehearted as it seemed at the time: or were they simply saying what they knew the Pope wanted them to say, but without any real belief in the idea itself?

In a concurring opinion, Justice Arthur Goldberg warned that an «untutored devotion to the concept of neutrality» can lead to a «pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious.»

It certainly wasn't all or even a majority of the people... but they were quite vocal... kind of embarrassing... and any attempt to disagree with their fantasies was met with a kind of paranoid hostility.

Even my own magazine, the United Church of Canada Observer, has made use of readers» antiestablishment hostilities to force them to notice some otherwise dull report on Sunday schools, salaries or organizational restructuring.

And in a review in Eternity magazine he criticized the book for its «spirit of suspicion and hostility» while finding it «intellectually superficial» — even though he would still find himself to the right of Jewett and others at Fuller.

Even granted that this is mainly due to hostility toward Britain generated by the Revolution itself («The British,» said Jefferson, «are in our bowels and we must expel them.»)

There is no family relationship that is not subject to feelings of anger, hostility, or even hatred.

In 16:1 - 4 the hostility of the Jews is made even more definite: it will involve excommunication from the synagogue and even death for the disciples.

Much of the weakening of religious certitude in the Christian West can be laid at the door of science; even people whose religion might incline them to hostility to the pretensions of science generally understand that they have to rely on science rather than religion to get things done.

Where Plinio Correa de Oliveira focussed on an enemy which put itself forward in open hostility towards the Church and civilisation as traditionally understood, Trower takes aim at a vague, ill - defined and chameleon - like philosophy which is hard even to identify clearly, a philosophy which does not really have a name, a philosophy which is frequently embraced by Catholics and other Christians all unawares that it is not compatible with their faith.

«Polemics,» as I use it here, does not denote or connote simple hostility, or opposition for its own sake — even though the term has come to mean something like this in ordinary English usage.

One might even say that they are indifferent to the point of hostility.

He laments the way that age separates the elderly from young people and even provokes hostility between the generations.

This aroused disbelief and hostility in the crowd, even amongst many who had become his disciples.

Process theism, such as that of Lewis Ford and his colleagues, seems the best present means to provide interpretation (at once theistic and naturalistic) that extends to all events, including major evolutionary developments — and might even provide adequate theological and philosophical basis to moderate some culture - war hostilities.

Unfortunately, even by the end of Elizabeth's reign the dynamics of London theatrical economics and increasing Puritan hostility were undermining theater's unique public role, unprecedented since the days of Periclean Athens.

I've encountered enough religious types who respond with hostility, arrogance, and condescension to know that they simply do not know either, and are afraid to admit to there even being non-blasphemous curiosities about the subject.

For after the shock of discovering just how completely the entire civilized world had averted its gaze from what was happening to their fellow Jews in Europe, they would find not only that they were now being welcomed to hitherto restricted precincts but that all the traditional expressions of hostility to Jews had been banished from polite, and even largely from impolite, society.

He continued to fight for his ideals, even in the face of hostility and opposition.

The Internal Security Act bristles with direct hostility toward even the most gentlemanly versions of press inquiry.

But even these two «moderates» made major steps toward a sensible Establishment Clause jurisprudence, stripped of the old hostility to religion (and especially to Catholic institutions).

Hostility creates hatred and contempt; the necessity of either killing or being killed obliterates humaneness; and even those who in times of peace have been cosmopolitans, with international interest and goodwill, become under the spell of war intense group - loyalists with no sense of moral obligation to the enemy.

It did not seem matter to him even if the party had to end in hostility.

But as it rises above this rationalized common platform it becomes charged with a thousand differing potentialities, elastic and even fluid — indivisible, one might say, by the expressions of hostility to which Thought, in its gropings, may temporarily subject it.