Sentences with phrase «viewed as a hostile»

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.

«It slices the vocal cords,» complained Jeffrey Henson, who ran the Facebook page, calling for a boycott of Target over its $ 150,000 donation to a group supporting a candidate some view as hostile to the gay community, Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer.

The $ 4.4 - million study, which was launched in 1983 by an Administration widely viewed as hostile to native - language instruction, apparently will bolster the position of bilingual - education advocates, observers of the field predict.

They funded three insurgent state Senate candidates, only to see them lose by huge margins to incumbents viewed as hostile to charter schools: Sen. Bill Perkins in Manhattan, Sen. Velmanette Montgomery in Brooklyn and Sen. Shirley Huntley in Queens.»

Their unwillingness to accept strangers, who they might view as hostile, has led to so many places subjecting them to breed specific legislation.

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Many businesses view Russia as a hostile market because of its much - publicized moves to restrict foreign investment in economic sectors considered strategic to the state.

After all, she said, Amazon won't benefit if its workers can't find places to live, or if they are viewed by existing residents as a hostile force.

Netanyahu's office has repeatedly denied wrongdoing over the investigations, portraying the accusations as a witch hunt against him and his family by a hostile media opposed to his hard - line political views.

Floods, earthquakes, and the Santa Ana wind further support her view of nature as blind or hostile to human needs.

Mitchell's hostile interrogation of Ambassador Nancy Brinker, Komen's CEO and founder, was widely viewed as a key moment in Planned Parenthood's campaign against Komen.

Both are constitutional ideals which should be approximated as nearly as possible while respecting other important principles, Separation should be viewed as a development friendly to religion in a heterogeneous society rather than as a hostile turn of events.

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?

And I suppose that you are using the word «comrade» as some sort of reference to Communism, which you associate with every person or idea that does not fit in with your ignorant view of the world, however during the Cold War the minority of the Middle Eastern Muslim cultures that hated the US tended to be even more hostile to the Soviets (who where officially Atheist).

Ezzo takes a dim and even hostile view of attachment parenting, having referred to it as «neoprimitivistic» and redolent of «third world maternal disorder.»

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.

Each side views its own military preparations as defensive and the other's as hostile.

UPDATE 3: The governor urged reporters not to view the fact that three legislators abstained from today's vote as a «hostile» act, suggesting that they all would vote at the «appropriate time» — in other words, when they vote on the budget.

And, according to a new study, running your hand over sandpaper may make you view social interactions as more hostile and competitive.

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.

Just by electing these three candidates to the school board, Riverside went from a county with a reputation of being hostile towards charter schools to one that is viewed as much friendlier.

Although many of us may increasingly view the world as a hostile place in which to raise children, a place in which even Beaver Cleaver would be at risk, the solution of constructing taller walls around our families and double locking the front door in order to keep out a seemingly toxic culture is unrealistic.

Yet he bristles at being labeled a «raider,» despite the fact that he is widely viewed as a founding member of the clan that roamed Wall Street in the 1980s, occasionally pursuing hostile takeovers with ruthless abandon.

The rich assemblage of reviews is highly revealing, with its juxtaposition of hostile and favourable notices... The juxtaposition of these reviews with detailed information about the exhibitions offers valuable insights into educated and popular views on contemporary art throughout the period... This book will serve as a text - book, as an invaluable resource for scholars and as a rich source of browsing.»

Early in Mr. Rauschenberg's career, hostile critics accused him of advancing «the de-definition of art,» as Harold Rosenberg called it, by encouraging the view that anything goes with anything.

Although her subjects vary from French painter Henri Matisse to American critic Dave Hickey, Fendrich views her essays collectively as «a polemic to defend painting against hostile forces.

As a psychological tendency, past research shows that among those most strongly committed to a position on an issue; even objectively favorable coverage is likely to be viewed as biased and hostile to their goalAs a psychological tendency, past research shows that among those most strongly committed to a position on an issue; even objectively favorable coverage is likely to be viewed as biased and hostile to their goalas biased and hostile to their goals.

Past research shows that individuals more heavily involved on an issue, such as climate scientists, often tend to view even objectively favorable media coverage as hostile to their goals.

From my point of view, the ritual of swearing the affidavit is a mildly pleasant experience against the otherwise unfriendly and often hostile environment in the court system, and that seems as good a criteria as any for allocating wealth.

2011 saw a discipline proceeding being permanently quashed by an Ontario court in Lim v. Assn. of Professional Engineers of Ontario, 2011 ONSC 106 (Divisional Court), where the regulator's Manager was acrimonious and hostile to a respondent, and where the Chair of the Discipline Committee improperly adopted the Manager's views on an issue as his own, thereby bringing the Committee's impartiality into question.

Secondly, the Segwit2x hardfork which is expected to go through in November is being viewed in the cryptocurrency space as a hostile attack on Bitcoin Core which some miners and businesses think have too much control over Bitcoin.

Unfortunately, vigorously defending yourself, no matter how right you are, is often viewed as you being the hostile and uncooperative one.

Common beliefs, such as viewing women as incompetent, are the underpinnings of both hostile and benevolent sexism.

Divorce mediation has been viewed since the 1980s as a promising alternative to the more traditional courtroom method of resolving issues between two co-parents engaged in hostile conflict.