Sentences with phrase «increase public hostility»

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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.

While we can see firsthand some of the trajectories mentioned in these essays» for example, an increase in liturgical sobriety within Christian churches and an increased hostility toward religion outside them» the endpoints of those trajectories form the world in which we begin our engagement with public life.

They're in a tough spot and I think, while this precise move might not be that significant, it shows a general increasing awareness that their public positions of hostility to a lot of the current reform ideas are hurting them more than helping them.»

There is no question that, in an atmosphere of increasing irrational public hostility toward our breed, the presence of our dogs in performance venues is a strongly positive example of their stable and hard working temperaments.