Sentences with phrase «seen as hostile»

The C.I.A. has a long history of so - called influence operations to help favored candidates in foreign elections with money or propaganda, and on a few occasions even helping overthrow elected leaders seen as hostile to the United States.

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.

Fourth was the U.K. where, despite a Conservative government often seen as hostile to green energy, investment in renewables rose 14 percent, much of it on offshore wind farms.

Any behavior that can be seen as hostile will be reason for our security forces to take action.

Even then the department was seen as hostile to improving efficiency and using alternative energy.

The president - elect has taken what is widely seen as a hostile stance toward the scientific community.

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

Indeed, Mattel's move comes at a time when the U.S. administration has taken steps that are seen as hostile to Muslim people, not least banning visitors from Muslim - majority countries.

In The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief (1994), Marsden offers an elegiac account of the way in which the effort by liberal Christians to identify Christian ideals with Western civilization may have served to make many church - related colleges and universities halfway houses on the way toward a secularity that Marsden sees as hostile to Christian influence.

The release notes that this isn't the first time Cuomo has moved to protect immigrants in the face of what he sees as a hostile atmosphere created by the Trump administration.

Here are five of the major moves many see as hostile toward science — and as sobering indicators of the world the scientific community could be facing after January 20:

Look at the thousands of black and brown parents who marched across the Brooklyn Bridge to protest what they see as hostile actions from Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Lindzen was there and asked a question of Emanuel that Susan saw as hostile.

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Monday, Tribune Publishing Co. said Soon - Shiong's Nant Capital had made a $ 70.5 million investment in the publisher, a move seen as an attempt to fend off a hostile takeover by Gannett Co..

While a hostile move for GM is seen as a long shot, Marchionne is trying to lobby investors to support his case that GM and FCA would be better off merged, the sources said.

Sources who have seen parts of it said the report chronicles an aggressive and fast - growing startup, resulting in a frequently chaotic and «hostile work environment» without adequate systems in place to ensure that violations such as sexual harassment and retaliatory behavior were dealt with professionally.

Now that I have learnt to see you as he who is «more me than myself», grant that when my hour has come I may recognize you under the appearances of every alien or hostile power that seems bent on destroying or dispossessing me.

He is indifferent to religious freedom (as opposed to being actively hostile to it, as was his erstwhile Democratic opponent), and we might therefore see a slowdown or even a halt to the last few years» trajectory on that issue.

Each sees the existence of the human race as just one particular episode in a vast non-human immensity and is hostile to the hubris which would tailor the universe to the human scale.

In an age where Christians are increasingly seen as intolerant, bigoted and out of touch, leading the charge in removing the ghosts of slavery from our public places would be a great step to reconciling with an increasingly hostile, mainstream culture.

Explanations for why I see some of your comments as supporting the abusers and heaping onto victims — is «hostile»?

The theological term for this is: you can see reality as gracious — not as hostile, not as indifferent, but as gracious.

A profoundly hostile secular culture wars against our efforts to achieve even a modest loyalty to the apostolic tradition, and, sadly, in the war we see the Church as a sometimes - unreliable ally.

But the following decade saw this European «bible belt» disappear as an unprecedented wave of prosperity would combine with the spiritual exhaustion that had set in after two world wars to produce a nihilistic consumerism largely indifferent, if not altogether hostile, to the traditional faiths.

funny thing is, I seem to see a lot of angry hostile christians on the airwaves and in the media as well.

(6) He saw psychopathology as rooted in undeveloped resources in persons: «Hidden in the neurosis is a bit of still undeveloped personality, a precious fragment of the psyche lacking which a man is condemned to resignation, bitterness, and everything else that is hostile to life.

As we shall see in due course, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have witnessed a growth of atheistic Communism and of a secularism which is less overtly hostile but is eroding the foundations of all religions.

All three factors were seen as necessary to establish and maintain the young church in suspicious and hostile Thessalonica.

It is also possible to see how those who thought, over the last generation, that something like liberation economics would be the wave of the future and who remain hostile to or puzzled by current developments, would be attracted to a vision such as this one.

Team Corbyn's view is that with such a large base of members — more than 600,000 identified supporters, three times as many as Ed Miliband could rely on — a newly energised Labour can simply route around what they see as a uniformly hostile media using social media.

Working people are increasingly seeing their rights eroded at work and being victimised by hostile employment practices as a result of the anti-trade union legislation introduced by successive Conservative governments, delegates at the TUC Congress heard today.

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, who is seen as a close ally of the mayor, walked a more cautious line, but said that Bloomberg's hostile relationship with the teachers union had become counter-productive.

«It is incredibly worrying to see the hostile environment being expanded to treat victims and witnesses of crime as suspects by the police.

The Business Secretary is expected to declare war on fat - cat company directors and hostile takeovers in what has been seen as the most aggressive assault on the excesses of capitalism by a minister since the 1970s.

«It is not unreasonable to see the Vote Leave campaign, with its central focus on immigration, as a continuation of this politically mainstream, hostile stance towards immigration and xeno - racist narratives.»

«We are trying to send a message and you're seeing the media send that message as well and it's that harassment and hostile work environments will not be tolerated,» Fahy said.

These types of incidents collectively create a hostile environment that women internalize and come to see as normal, she said.

«This creates an environment in which some members are fearful to take part in the party or raise their voice about any issue, as they see that meetings have become hostile and sometimes aggressive.»

This appetite for energy is at last being seen as a threat, though not to the environment: the top brass understands that relying on dwindling oil supplies from unstable or hostile countries is a bad idea.

German intends to see next if these materials might be good as a wound covering for hostile environments where 1) you want to be able to see the wound healing without removing the dressing, 2) you want to protect the wound from the sun and 3) you want to keep the wound in a moist environment, known to promote faster wound healing rates.

When, last year, Hope expressed these views in a blog post for the national newspaper The Guardian, he was the target of hostile comments from readers, some seeing his vision as a threat to job security or academic freedom, or maintaining that it is only applicable to a few fields.

The last time we saw Matt Damon in an existential crisis was just over 10 months ago, as he struggled to survive on the hostile landscape of Mars, in Ridley Scott's The Martian.

Something we'd like to see in Red Dead Redemption 2 is a version of that cheat which globally sets all animals to regard you as friendly, but other NPCs as hostile.

As witness the hostile or dismissive responses that greeted the film on its first screenings in Telluride and Venice — the tide turning on its recent U.K. release, which saw it acclaimed as a genuine wondeAs witness the hostile or dismissive responses that greeted the film on its first screenings in Telluride and Venice — the tide turning on its recent U.K. release, which saw it acclaimed as a genuine wondeas a genuine wonder.

A new still featuring Timmy from «Hostiles» has also been released and you can see that in the gallery as well.

Christian Bale, who will be next seen in Hostiles, says that he did not watch Ben Affleck's Batman or any of the Avengers movies as he is not a big fan of superhero films.

Chalamet, who you've also seen in other 2017 films like Hostiles and Lady Bird, delivers a beautiful performance as a young man attempting to make sense of his feelings while Armie Hammer shows new depth as the charismatic but vulnerable Oliver.

After the debate we see this argument isn't as hostile as it might have seemed as Carl and Pastor Dan are invited for a drink in Dr. Blaylock's office.

Hostiles is the brutal new film from director Scott Cooper, disturbing in many ways, but as Captain Blocker (Christian Bale) leads a dying Cheyenne chief (Wes Studi) through dangerous territory, we see Blocker transform from hating a man...

As one friend stated, you almost become a fan of the apes by the third act, if only to see just how they go about their hostile takeover.