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
In the end the hostile party was repulsed, though with severe loss on our side, and we retreated to the main body of our party.
From The Indian Captive A narrative of the adventures and sufferings of Matthew Brayton in his thirty-four years of captivity among the Indians of north-western America by Brayton, Matthew
She had defended herself too successfully against such persons as Godet, Brisacier, and others of the hostile party.
From Priests, Women, and Families by Michelet, Jules
The hostile party of the natives precedes us.
From Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. II by Mackenzie, Alexander
