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
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
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
A shaggy-headed monster, apparently the leader of the hostile party, again addressed Conolly in his own language.
From The King's Own by Marryat, Frederick
