hostile party

Occidental this month said it would issue a shareholder rights offering, often known as a “poison pill” because it is designed to discourage takeovers by diluting the ownership interest of a hostile party.

“Labour will borrow the money and my son and his children will pay for it. We’ve already ruined the planet and left them a massive debt to inherit. And since Momentum joined Labour, I find it a hostile party for moderates.”

The prime minister held a conference call with local association chairmen on Friday afternoon as she fought to head off a coup and sell her hard-won Brexit deal to a sceptical and partially hostile party.

In 2016, California-based Republican consultant Mike Madrid gave a presentation about the Latino vote, warning that the GOP was “viewed as a hostile party” and that “people do not come to this country to get on welfare.”

Business and Energy Secretary Greg Clark told the BBC's Today programme: "We had a national security risk assessment in 2015 which pointed out the increasing threats from overseas. "It identified particular pieces of chip technology where it is possible to embed aspects of its operation that would allow a hostile party to disrupt a system into which it was embedded.