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
Garnet darted up the steps; but Catesby lingered to make fast the door, and thus oppose some obstacle to the hostile party.
From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by Ainsworth, William Harrison
Dismounted and accompanied by Bela Moshi Wilmshurst made his way along the side of the track until he came in touch with the hostile party.
From Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force by Prater, Ernest
The commons stood firm on the main issues, and the hostile party in the lords, who had vowed to mar this reform, flinched at the last moment.
From The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) by Brodrick, George C. (George Charles)
