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
At this instant, the natives reached the bank: he was soon joined by his own friends, and confronted the hostile party, who stood on the opposite bank flourishing their spears.
From The History of Tasmania , Volume II by West, John
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
Meanwhile the hostile party continued to advance up the dry channel before mentioned, and shouted on beholding these strange preparations, but they did not relax their speed.
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by Ainsworth, William Harrison
