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
By this time we had finished most of our preparations, and were busily engaged in constructing a mine at the extremity of the wharf, for the benefit of any hostile party that might land there.
From Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 by Doubleday, Abner
The hostile party was triumphantly beaten off with great loss to itself and Henry and his friends pursued their journey leisurely and triumphantly.
From The Young Trailers A Story of Early Kentucky by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)
They had neither seen nor heard of the hostile party; and perhaps we may hope that all this is a rumour.
From Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by Richardson, James
