Sentences with phrase «treated as a hostile»

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The prospective borrower is treated as a «counterparty» — itself a rather hostile term.

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

«It is the same hostile environment all over again, shutting our fellow citizens out of public life, treating communities who made Britain their home as second - class citizens.

Even though Abitz had been invited by the Committee staff to give a «technical presentation» on groundwater impacts of ISL mining, Committee members treated him as something of a hostile witness.

Among his greatest weapons was an immaculate dignity; a poise which dared a hostile world to treat him as an inferior.

The publishing landscape of 2012 looks similar to the music landscape of 1998, crossed with the web designs of 1996: it's encumbered by DRM and proprietary formats, it treats customers as criminals, it's fragmented across platforms, and it's hostile to authors who want to distribute their work through independent channels.

The Australian player who posted that article on his blog was assumed to be a «Chinese gold farmer», treated as such, and inadvertently perpetuated the production of the stereotype that «Chinese gold farmers» are hostile.

I asked Wink founder and CTO Nathan Smith to elaborate on that last point, and he explained that Wink's philosophy is to treat every home network as a hostile environment, not a trusted one.