mutual hostility

Example Sentences

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He used secret negotiations to restore ties between the United States and China, ending decades of isolation and mutual hostility.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 29, 2023

Ministers from Edinburgh and London have toned down their mutual hostility over independence and much else to present a more united front on tackling global warming.

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2021

“Pamela Geller,  Robert Spencer, Geert Wilders and the perpetrators of yesterday’s attack all seek to provoke a downward spiral of mutual hostility and mistrust in America and around the world.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2015

At times it seemed that the most virulent pathogen in biodefense was mutual hostility, and everybody had it.

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2011

In the first period, which witnessed the construction of the great monuments and the reigns of the great kings, both Brahmanism and Mahayanist Buddhism nourished, but as in Java and Champa without mutual hostility.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 by Eliot, Charles, Sir