hostile party
Example Sentences
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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
Presidents had had to contend with at least one branch of Congress controlled by a hostile party.
From Time Magazine Archive
She had defended herself too successfully against such persons as Godet, Brisacier, and others of the hostile party.
From Priests, Women, and Families by Michelet, Jules
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
He seemed overjoyed that there was no longer any sign of the hostile party which had come in pursuit of him.
From The Young Alaskans by Hough, Emerson
