hostility

Example Sentences

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Over the past decade, this event coincided with disease, geopolitical hostility and even the occasional threat of nuclear war.

From The Wall Street Journal

It protects people who are not or are no longer participating in hostilities and restricts the means and methods of warfare.

From Barron's

These new arrivals were greeted with hostility and fear that they would transform America and its culture beyond recognition.

From Salon

"A partnership would likely prove unstable given their open hostilities in the past," BMI said in an outlook note.

From Barron's

I think there is at least a potential for Mahan to tap into a desire among voters to lower the hostilities just a bit and ease up on our constant partisan war-footing.

From Los Angeles Times