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Hostile meaning
Not friendly; appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence or a desire to thwart and injure. | Aggressive; antagonistic. | Unwilling.
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Iran: European Proposal to Escort Tankers ‘Hostile,’ ‘Provocative’ (Yesterday) - “Hostile” and “provocative” is how Iran labeled a proposal to form a European coalition to.
The company also announced it had reached a good faith agreement with Green Growth Brands Inc. — the U.S. retailer that launched a hostile bid on Aphria earlier this year — to bring forward the expiry date on the hostile bid to April 25.
Asked about turning hostile during Special CBI court trial and Punjab and Haryana High Court making scathing remarks against him in the verdict on Tuesday, he said, “Yes I did turn hostile during a couple of hearings.
Furthermore, the presence of any armed guard in a synagogue may create a hostile environment for some, if not all, Jews — it would definitely create a hostile environment for people of color who are Jewish.
An extended range torpedo delivered by parachute from the air would allow warships the stand-off capability to attack hostile submarines with very little advance notice to the hostile submarine.
Hostile takeovers seeAlso A "hostile takeover" allows a bidder to take over a target company whose management is unwilling to agree to a merger or takeover.
Tactics against hostile takeover There are quite a few tactics or techniques which can be used to deter a hostile takeover.
Though he was always quite hostile to slavery, nearly to be point of being an abolitionist (although he doubted the abolitionists could successfully end slavery), he grew even more hostile to it later in life.
With Boeotia in hostile hands, Phocis and Locris became untenable and quickly fell under the control of hostile oligarchs.
A background report prepared on the rapist said he had shown negative and hostile attitudes to women.
According to police, Neely began acting in a “hostile and erratic manner” while asking commuters for food and something to drink.
According to reports, the meeting was ‘extremely hostile’ towards the director-general, who was told by one member of staff that ‘he was not in a position to make decisions on this issue, because he’s not trans’.
A Commander of the Androrian Imperial Guard in the mid-22nd century, the once hostile Shran grew into a trusted ally of Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) of the NX-01 Enterprise.
Add in the fact that Chinese brands spent the last several years sapping up industry know-how from joint ventures with US brands, and the Chinese market suddenly becomes a much more hostile place for American companies.
A few outraged faculty members later wrote an condemning the speaker as antisemitic, biased, and disrespectful, further claiming that the remarks created a hostile environment for Jewish faculty, staff, and students.
After all, the foreign ministry was created as a new Communist government tried to establish its control over the country and its legitimacy in a largely hostile world.
After decades of being a lone-wolf comedian in an industry hostile to my politics, it's strange, but wonderful, to work with so many people on my side of the aisle.
Against the odds, she vaulted to pop stardom–only to discover an industry and fanbase often hostile to women of colour.
A group of progressive organizations and other individuals have filed with the town of Northfield calling for the removal of Police Chief John Helfant, arguing he is unfit to serve because of “hostile” behavior to marginalized communities.
A hostile Lovett was found by police outside of the hotel about 10.20pm the same day.