The word
"hostile" means showing or expressing unfriendliness or aggression towards someone or something.
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Many people who work in
hostile environments enjoy their jobs, but they don't enjoy the way that they are being treated.
Consequently, how interactive video learning platforms are pioneering a digital approach to traditional methods
of hostile environment training.
Often these teams begin the year
in hostile environments against the best teams in the country.
The note argues that shareholders of companies that have successfully «just said no» to
hostile takeover bids have incurred «profoundly negative» returns.
In addition, women frequently have to deal with
hostile work environments.
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.
The researchers found that, for men, entitlement was associated
with hostile views of women.
Mechanical bird continues its journey through mysterious
hostile worlds.
Imagine waking up decades into the future on a foreign planet surrounded
by hostile green aliens.
Could there be a
more hostile environment for introducing yourself to a lovely lady?
Not to mention the distractions that come
from hostile work environments.
If you are not leaving
on hostile terms, also promise that you would be in touch.
Research shows that when parents remain openly
hostile toward each other, their children are likely to suffer long term emotional harm.
Contact with potentially
hostile aliens does not seem to be any closer.
Yet it is clear that since 1997, public opinion has become more
hostile towards private ownership of the utilities, especially rail.
Negative real short rates have historically been among the
most hostile of all market conditions.
But there is another reason — the
increasingly hostile relationship between the governor and the legislature.
I sense I am working behind enemy lines in
very hostile territory.
When parents and teachers are
openly hostile toward each other, the child almost always becomes the loser.
And sometimes it's easy for us parents to get caught up in our children's negative or
even hostile feelings toward their teachers.
They can also give the message to other states that
hostile acts in their territories will be responded to.
Every such road separates the Israeli force from
hostile territory, and they too are a kind of border.
His medical missions
into hostile territory save many lives, but not without a tragic loss.
The bipartisan committee offered a set of measures to defend domestic election infrastructure
against hostile foreign nations.
This is a claim where the case put forward by the defendant met a very
hostile reception.
We also found that some deep relationships — sometimes
hostile relationships — existed in some of our large state affiliates.
It is an artist's job to make art, not to negotiate an
often hostile media onslaught in which any serious consideration of the work itself can take a back seat.
Those who have already started to look at these issues report weary, indifferent or even
hostile reactions to their work.
I've
faced hostile investigations by politicians, demands for me to be fired from my job, threats against my life and even threats against my family.
Even our «friendly debates» end up sounding pretty
hostile at times.
This changes the properties of his saliva, to make the mouth a more
hostile place for plaque to develop.
Anger management skill - building techniques can be very beneficial in relationships, the workplace and other stressful situations that have prompted
hostile responses in the past.
To get there you will travel
through hostile terrain and fight against those who stand in your way.
This creates the opportunity for
hostile governments to «play off» the different organisations.
Your point about leading questions being allowed for
hostile witnesses makes the point of this question even less clear to me now.
He does a lot of outreach about climate change and takes special delight in engaging
hostile audiences.
But it also offers unprecedented opportunities to criminals, terrorists, and
hostile states.
What do fathers need to know
about hostile aggressive parenting, particularly when trying to manage custody relationships after a divorce?
An agreed resolution to a divorce is far more effective than a judge - imposed one in turning round what can be a potentially
hostile situation.