hostile party
Example Sentences
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Presidents had had to contend with at least one branch of Congress controlled by a hostile party.
From Time Magazine Archive
This threat was implicitly raised last week by Iraqi Foreign Minister Saadoun Hammadi, who warned that Iraq would consider the U.S. a "hostile party in the gulf conflict" if it sent supplies to Iran.
From Time Magazine Archive
A hostile party, having formed the design of making themselves masters of the city, waited until the people, attracted by curiosity to see the execution, should have gone out of it.
From Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers by Valentine, L. (Laura)
But, though the flames revealed every object for a considerable distance around them, no traces of the hostile party could be discerned.
From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by Ainsworth, William Harrison
Turning to take departure, the young officers again look across the saloon, to learn how the hostile party has disposed itself.
From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Reid, Mayne
