hostile
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unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company ( used of attempts to buy or take control of a business) "hostile takeover","hostile tender offer","hostile bid" -
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hostile
not belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally "hostile naval and air forces" -
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very unfavorable to life or growth "a hostile climate","an uncongenial atmosphere","an uncongenial soil","the unfriendly environment at high altitudes" -
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characterized by enmity or ill will "a hostile nation","a hostile remark","hostile actions" -
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impossible to bring into friendly accord "hostile factions" -
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troops belonging to the enemy's military forces "the platoon ran into a pack of hostiles"
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Hostile
An enemy; esp., an American Indian in arms against the whites; -- commonly in the plural.
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Of or pertaining to an enemy: as, hostile ground. -
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Of inimical character or tendency; having or exhibiting enmity or antagonism; antagonistic: as, a hostile manifesto; hostile criticism. -
hostile
Synonyms Averse, Adverse, Inimical, Hostile; unfriendly, warlike. Averse applies to feeling, adverse to action: as, I was very averse to his going; an adverse vote; adverse fortune. Inimical expresses both feeling and action, generally in private affairs. Hostile also expresses both feeling and action, but applies especially to public affairs; where it applies to private matters, it expresses either strong or conspicuous action or feeling, or both, or all. -
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An enemy: specifically, in the United States, a hostile Indian; an Indian who is engaged in warfare against the whites.
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hos′til belonging to an enemy: showing enmity: warlike: adverse
Hostile takeover - If a company is bought out when it does not want to be, it is known as a hostile takeover.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary L. hostilis—hostis.
Fueling some of the latest outrage is the overt hostility of Bloomberg, a former smoker himself, to today's puffers. brooklynpaper.com
In interviews and attack ads, the presidential candidates have taken increasingly hostile swipes at each other as their nominating conventions approach and Mitt Romney prepares to select a running mate. pbs.org
They blast NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko, calling him "intimidating," "hostile". cnn.com
As any good soldier will tell you, it's important to be prepared before entering a field of battle or dangerously hostile territory. coloradostatesman.com
SALT LAKE CITY — A judge has ruled against a Utah construction company accused of creating a hostile environment for black employees. standard.net
As Jay-Z brings the traveling road show known as Blueprint III to Baltimore's 1st Mariner Arena Oct 27, he does so at a time when he is literally carrying both hip-hop and it's hostile captor—Rap Mu$ick, LLP—on his back. citypaper.com
For ages, nations have dreamed of building invulnerable shields to protect themselves from hostile forces. nytimes.com
Peachtree City is looking at yet another EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) filing by city employee Lisa Ficalore over what her complaint is calling a retaliatory and hostile work environment. thecitizennews.com
The high court said that while incidents that occurred before the law took effect cannot be retroactively remedied, they can be used in an overall hostile workplace case if the actions continued after June 2006. union-bulletin.com
Institutions should address bad behavior to prevent hostile work environments and protect patient safety, a new study says. ama-assn.org
The First Boston Corporation assured Salomon Inc yesterday that it would not help Revlon Inc in what many think could develop into a hostile takeover bid for the nation's biggest investment banking house. nytimes.com
The melvins little chudas congo hostile ambient takeover ipecac. prb.com
"In hostility to American history, the radical secularists insist that religious belief is inherently divisive and that public debate can only proceed on secular terms," ... cbsnews.com
It is hostile to books, hostile to people, hostile to the city of Paris. nybooks.com
Hostility to Israel is widespread and rising. spectator.org
Next we turn to an alternative local update rule termed hostile merging.
Models and average properties of scale-free directed networks
This is the basic idea underlying the concepts of GHZ (Gonzalez et al. 2001) and of the Rare Earth (Brownlee and Ward 2002): complex life in the Universe may be rare, not for intrinsic reasons (i.e. improbability of development of life on a planet), but for extrinsic ones, related to the hostile cosmic environment.
On the "Galactic Habitable Zone"
It should be noted that these measurements need to be done “in the field”, which in the case of millimeter radio telescopes generally means the hostile environment of a high mountain site.
Near-Field Radio Holography of Large Reflector Antennas
The implementation is not created in an hostile environment and any implementation error is only an unintended bug such as use of poor pseudo-random generators.
Statistical Analysis of Privacy and Anonymity Guarantees in Randomized Security Protocol Implementations
If the implementation is hostile, it can contain bugs which can not be easily detected by random sampling.
Statistical Analysis of Privacy and Anonymity Guarantees in Randomized Security Protocol Implementations
He was broken by debauchery and torn this way and that by two violently hostile parties in his own camp. "A History of Sea Power" by
Strange to say the first to suffer from the outbreak of hostilities was Poland. "William Pitt and the Great War" by
He did not grow therefore the less hostile. "Sir Walter Ralegh" by
Open hostilities began in June, 1763. "The Political History of England - Vol. X." by
He saved the French garrison at Detroit from an attack by hostile Indians. "Four American Indians" by
Onward they marched against that strong city, heedless of the hostile portents which they met on their way. "Historic Tales, vol 10 (of 15)" by
A thrill of hostility shot through him. "The Kingdom Round the Corner" by
The author of the Acts, true to his hostility to the Jews, of course brings them in as the persecutors. "The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03" by
It was just possible that the ranchers might perpetrate some hostile act. "Desert Conquest" by
I seen him lookin' hostile at you when you was quizzin' him in Balleau's. "'Drag' Harlan" by
While hostile armies take their toll.
On these dark days I toil and brood
With starless midnight in my soul.
On hostile cliff, in desert drear,
Cast with less joy his glance below,
When came some friendly warrior near;
What rumor from the battle's verge,
Where sun and sun their chariots urge
To leaguers of the hostile Deep?
And fair the darker velvet of your ear,
Ragged and scarred with old hostilities
That never taught you fear.
Through hostile seas resistless sweeping,
Led in her wake her battle prize,
To port her course triumphant keeping.
Vanquished, tilling a soil
Hateful and hostile grown;
Always wearily, warily,
Feeding deep in the heart
Passion they dare not own---