Sentences with phrase «hostile acts»

Overt, hostile acts of rejection are not the child's preferred strategy.

TOKYO, June 4 — Facing perhaps 10 years in a labor camp, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, TV reporters accused of illegally entering North Korea and committing unspecified «hostile acts,» were scheduled to go on trial Thursday afternoon in Pyongyang in a case that has become part of a nail - biting face - off between North Korea and much of the rest of the world.

The committee recommends that the U.S. work with allied countries to create international cyber standards to deter hostile nations from taking advantage of current gray areas in cyber policy, making it clear that attacks on election systems are «hostile acts.»

The United States has fundamental homeland security interests in preventing terrorist attacks and criminal or hostile acts in or via the Arctic region.

The Panmunjom declaration to achieve «peace, prosperity and unification in the Korean Peninsula» also pledges to resume family reunions and «halt all hostile acts».

«If Russia considers this a hostile act rather than an error, we could see a crisis that invokes the charter of NATO, given Turkey's status in the multilateral organization.»

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.

The sacking of Winterton has been seen by some Labour MPs the most hostile act of Corbyn's leadership.

provided that in any of these cases he abstains from any hostile act and does not attempt to escape.

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

This was regarded as a deeply hostile act and fed suspicions that Hammond is looking to become chancellor in a post - Cameron government or even to make a play for the Tory leadership.

He added: «If the measure announced in the British official communication is enacted, it will be interpreted by Ecuador as an unacceptable, unfriendly and hostile act and as an attempt against our sovereignty.

The hostile act put the PM in the extremely awkward position of having to reject the president elect's proposal.

Driscoll said withdrawing the resolution rather than holding it was a hostile act and could delay implementation of the bureau by about a month.

The comments reiterate deeply - held Conservative opposition to the idea, with some reports suggesting shadow foreign secretary William Hague said it would be «a hostile act» against an incoming Tory government for the EU to select him.

Will Cameron repeat the Hague phrase that it would be a «hostile act» for Europe to pick Blair?

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.»

That second nature is expressed in the unreported «10,000 acts of kindness,» as the late Stephen Jay Gould memorably styled the number of typically benevolent interactions among people for every hostile act.

If they didn't realize that it was a meteorite and thought it was a hostile act by the United States, it could start a nuclear war.

Spitting on another person — which often is a hostile act that can cause considerable distress to the target — is a different matter, of course.

Editor's note: This blog describes a hostile act and contains language that some might find disturbing and offensive.

Trying to leverage readers and enveloping them into your own ecosystem is considered by many, to be a hostile act.

«This exhibition is a hostile act towards communities on the front lines fighting tenant harassment, cultural appropriation and erasure,» the Chinatown Art Brigade wrote in an open letter.

This exhibition is a hostile act towards communities on the front lines fighting tenant harassment, cultural appropriation and erasure.

In a statement on October 2, CAB urged the gallery to close the show, writing, «This exhibition is a hostile act towards communities on the front lines fighting tenant harassment, cultural appropriation and erasure.

Discussing these concerns is not a hostile act; neither is pointing out the contributions of the coal fleet to grid reliability and resilience.

A more accurate model is: politics is a system that 1) selects against skills needed for rigorous thinking and for qualities such as groupthink and confirmation bias, 2) incentivises a badly selected set of people to consider their career not the public interest, 3) drops them into dysfunctional institutions with no relevant training and poor tools, 4) centralises vast amounts of power in the hands of these people and institutions in ways we know are bound to cause huge errors, and 5) provides very weak (and often damaging) feedback so facing reality is rare, learning is practically impossible, and system reform is seen as a hostile act by political parties and civil services worldwide.

«The U.S. government should clearly communicate to adversaries that an attack on our election infrastructure is a hostile act, and we will respond accordingly,» the committee's Republican chairman, Senator Richard M. Burr of North Carolina, and Democratic vice chairman, Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, said in a statement.

Not exact matches

For example, when one account executive at Synergy was perceived as acting a little too hostile toward her support staff, Gordon sat down with her and her graph.

While President Obama has supported a few proposals that benefit high - growth, high - tech entrepreneurs (like the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, most of his policies have been hostile to the interests of Main Street business owners, particularly those running labor - intensive businesses with low - wage employees.

Rockwell has a staggered board of directors and no ability to act by written consent to call a special meeting, making a hostile approach more difficult.

And it must act consistently and holistically with its support and the elimination of economically hostile policies and laws, such as restrictive labor laws, ever - changing tax policies and an almost exclusive emphasis on funding the government for one more month instead of growing the economy.

He called the alleged conspiracy «an act of unprecedented treachery: the campaign of a nominee for President of the United States in league with a hostile foreign power to bolster its own chance to win the presidency.»

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.»

The selective willingness to act on trend - following measures even when our market return / risk estimates are negative (but only in the absence of hostile syndromes of market conditions) is one of the two adaptations we've introduced to our investment approach in the recent market cycle.

The signatures of Ministers to the GATT Final Act must be reconsidered because it is hostile to human rights.

And then, Lord, at that point where all things are set ablaze, do you act upon me though the united flames of all those internal and external influences which, were I less close to you, would be neutral or ambivalent or hostile, but which when animated by an Energy quae possit sibi omnia subjicere7 become, in the physical depths of your heart, the angels of your triumphant activity.

How come some people on here claim to possess a logical and fact based mindset, yet can't explain their point of view without acting hostile and demeaning toward «religious people».

Is it the Promethean or Faustian spirit: the spirit of autonomy and solitude; Man with his own strength and for his own sake opposing a blind and hostile Universe; the rise of consciousness concluding in an act of possession?

They are too busy looking for people who believe in God to act hostile toward.

If that SeeVak guy honestly believes I've been brainwashed, why does he act so hostile and ridicule me?

As Jonas Barish points out in his sharply observed monograph The Anti «Theatrical Prejudice (1981), terms such as theatrical, operatic, melodramatic, and stagey tend to be hostile or belittling, as do phrases like play «acting, putting on an act, making a scene, making a spectacle of oneself, playing to the gallery, and so forth.

And if so, how does her hostile views towards Christianity, doing acts of charity, caring for the least of these and individualism intersect with your understanding as a follower of Jesus?

-- Afghanistan as of 10/23/2013, 2,151 US troops killed, 1,782 from hostile fire, 369 from non-hostile activities, Over 40,000 Afghan civilians killed due to the dark - age, koranic - driven Taliban acts of horror

She didn't act as if hostile powers would somehow defeat the Holy Spirit, and she never allowed an ungodly culture to shake her: «Truth does not depend on the people around us, or the place we are in.»

Or go onto religion blogs and act hostile toward... oh wait.

Look at Daenerys: ever since she hatched some dragons, she's acted like a queen — even when dying of thirst in the Red Waste, even when captured by a hostile Dothraki horde — and that faith in herself convinces others to believe in her claim to the Iron Throne.

The sensible fans are the ones who realize Wenger is on his way out, but rather than act like children and be hostile towards him, we see that he can still continue to contribute towards the club in a huge way and that is why we support until he retires.

«When your child gets upset, angry or hostile and acts out, talk about his feelings with him.»

And the Times quotes one Labour MP fuming: «This is the single most hostile and divisive act that there has been in all of this.