6 sentences with 'hostile'
Example sentences and phrases with the word hostile and other words derived from it.
• « Both Greenland and Antarctica, always icy and hostile, hold innumerable data that would not only give us a better understanding of the earth's past, but also what is always the most cherished dream of mankind: to guess the future, at least as far as air pollution and "life expectancy" are concerned. »
• « The prophets were hostile to both the political power structure and the deviation from the exclusive worship of Yahweh. »
• « Byzantium was surrounded by hostile states and groups for most of its existence, and it slowly but steadily lost territory until it was little more than the city of Constantinople and its immediate territories. »
• « It was not just Catholic intolerance. While the Catholic Inquisition is an iconic institution in the history of persecution, most Protestants were equally hostile to Catholics. »
• « The English monarchy ran a kingdom with various ethnicities and divided religious loyalties, many of which were hostile to the monarchy itself. It was an unlikely candidate for what would one day be the most powerful "Great Power" in Europe. »
• « While many Protestants, including Luther himself, were as hostile as Catholics to new scientific ideas at first, in the long run Protestant governments proved more tolerant of ideas that seemed to violate the literal truth of the Bible. This had less to do with some kind of tolerance inherent in Protestantism than with the fact that Protestant institutions were less powerful and omnipresent than the Roman church in Catholic countries. »