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This is the female version of the Oedipal problem-the girl is hostile to her mother, in love with her father.

But some think Mr Bush would have been a better president with a hostile legislature to keep him on his toes.

The singularity lay in the hostile feelings with which the child regarded all these offspring of her own heart and mind.

"It was a bit of a miscalculation on their part because it exposed them to a hostile takeover, which is exactly what happened, " he added.

There was no sign at this moment of any hostile action or intent upon the part of Japan.

However, I've also seen him portrayed in the media as a hostile and radical person, and that aspect of him doesn't appeal to me.

It has no troops on the ground and is not exchanging fire with hostile forces (unless you count the odd drone strike).

Had finally decided to come to this point they began to hate each other's hostile rhetoric.

Don't be so hostile to me. I'm here not to quarrel with you but to explain the whole matter to you.

You're flying solo in a hostile environment, trying to take out one of the world's most elusive terrorists.

In the 1960s, Paul was caught up in the Cultural Revolution, a chaotic attempt to root out elements seen as hostile to Communist rule.

Public opinion, however, may be less hostile than the political elite. NATO seems to be little known and little understood.

Finally, it had to be secure, even in the hostile hacker --and virus filled environment of the Internet.

As if Israel's predicament in a region that may soon become more hostile is not bad enough, two more fears are nagging away.

She added that Kraft hoped to engage in friendly negotiations with Cadbury but did not rule out a hostile offer.

As he happily treated Israeli women and made friends with fellow doctors, he saw medicine as a bridge between the two hostile people.

And a few days later, there they all were with hands in the air, being sworn in now in front of the very hostile Congress.

If you look down on people and treat them badly, they'll retaliate and appear just as annoying and hostile as you expected.

It was quite hostile, they put us under a bit of pressure in the first and second halves. The pitch wasn't great but we dealt with it.

North Korea said the South Korean government "is still adhere to the anti-DPRK hostile policy, " the situation, not summit.

The other school sees gossip more as a hostile endeavor by individuals selfishly trying to advance their own interests.

After you deal with your hostile feelings, recognition of the temporary nature of culture shock begins.

How much access to sensitive information should he grant to an apparently hostile reporter?

Frieda: This operation's about to have a hostile takeover. Just call it a little power play.

Hostile letters poured in, mostly from people who did not think the subject worth talking about. Mr Franklin took them in his stride.

He said the threat of hostile takeovers would keep South Korean companies alert to the constant need to become more efficient.

Once the strip was under Hamas's total control, Israel declared it a hostile entity, and prevented movement to and from the territory.

This may be enough to deter hostile governments, but insurgents and militias might be less worried.

She opened her eyes and a hostile, Piao Lepiao him.

Modernism, with its macho ideal of the artist, seems to have provided a particularly hostile environment.

At the time, he said, it had seemed wiser to kill them than leave them alive, because of the possibility that they might be hostile.

Even one of his most hostile critics acknowledged that he described London "like a special correspondent for posterity" .

He does not seem to enjoy his visits to testify in Congress, often tensing visibly in the face of hostile questions.

Something of a know-it-all, he comes across as slightly hostile, even if only through verbal argument, or jokes targeted at others.

He looks as if he has emerged unscathed: from a brush with a hostile American president.

Their relationship is so hostile and anger between them of such long standing, that there is no way to patch them up.

The Fezzan reveals thousands of years of life struggling against change, of humans adapting to a hostile environment.

It said the key to settling the nuclear issue is to bring an end to what the agency calls the U. S. "hostile policy" towards North Korea.

It also shows guides warning the group that hostile locals make it dangerous to leave their hotel unaccompanied.

Hostile advertising seems to work not so much by firing up a candidate's own supporters but by suppressing the turnout for the other side.

"Robots are people, too, " reads a hostile badge, across a picture of him in a suit.

If they cannot insist on this, they say, there is nothing to stop their group from being taken over by people hostile to its principles.

Another large investor also voiced concerns that BHP could be lured into overpaying due to the hostile nature of the deal.

Well, I did not take it easy until I felt the dog was no longer hostile to me.

Were immutable , then such hostile code would not be able to modify our program state in such a confusing and dangerous way .

Since most people dislike being pushed to see any sort of adviser, I expected Boris to be reticent, if not downright hostile.

Ministers were quickly bogged down in an attritional struggle with a "machine" they saw as hostile to many of their reforms.

People have talked about the 'hostile' reception. But I'd say the fans just took the mickey out of me.

Richard Nixon has so far shown himself hostile to any sweeping efforts to help blacks catch up with whites.

Even the business community, which normally sticks up for Beijing, complains of a more hostile atmosphere.

Groups of men in leather jackets brandished guns. Some of them were apparently members of Alawite gangs, hostile to the protesters.

Parts of the Democratic Party, in particular, are hostile to the war and the White House is nervous.

But the only really hostile feedback I've received was prompted by an offhand characterisation of Canadians as "nice" .

He noticed Star was panicked when he started doing a manic "waddling dance" in an attempt to escape his hostile siblings.

Buck struggles bravely against the hostile environment in the Northland and rapidly gets accustomed to it with its great adaptability.

Unlike India, it has no insurgents, no ethnic and religious conflicts nor hostile neighbours.

A hostile takeover is when the target company did not invite or approve an offer to its shareholders.

The failure in Vietnam produced a new metaphor: Fighting a Third World country on hostile terrain was to be avoided at all costs.

If you can't seem to get them to stop their hostile behavior, you can try gently but firmly telling them "stop, you can't do this" .

And the North Americans weren't just passively resistant to the charms of the game. For a time, they were downright hostile.

The Taliban claimed it shot down the helicopter, but the official said there was no sign of hostile fire.

The irony is that, even if the court were to find against the Kosovars, Serbia would be quite unable to absorb 2m hostile Albanians.

They are ready to break any hostile action of Insulting china's national dignity.

A company subject to a hostile takeover will generally require a third party Fairness Opinion that independently values the company.

Trying to gain influence in a country which is otherwise hostile and aiding those attackers was pretty much a given.

If she's a few minutes late coming home, he leaves increasingly hostile messages on her mobile phone.

But then the American neighbours, who seem generally hostile, complained about noise and threatened to call the cops.

Swapping lab coats during the experiments did not confuse the pigeons and they continued shun the researcher who had been initially hostile.

It's not easy to remotely control a piece of machinery in hostile conditions 450 meters below ground.

The Environmental Defense Fund is now neutral on the nuclear issue & they used to be hostile.

The other good news is that if any hostile bidder had been eyeing up the Times, they would be crazy to be still contemplating it.

The next president will also have to deal with a resurgent and increasingly hostile Russia.

That part could get some traction this year, even if the next Congress turns out, as expected, to be hostile to comprehensive reform.

that would have been political suicide. But he saw anti-Soviet slogans and hostile workers who refused to talk to the Russian visitors.

If managers and directors do not maximizevalue, there is always the threat of a hostile takeover.

Golda Meir was the inspirational leader of Israel, a nation surrounded by hostile Arab neighbors that refused to concede its right to exist.

The Bank of England was particularly hostile to Barclays going ahead without a guarantee.

When President Obama took office in January of two thousand nine, he had a message for nations hostile to the United States.

then in my anger I will be hostile toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over.

Nothing was to be seen, but the hostile chill of the water and the stale odor of the wet stones could be felt.

There was no hostile reaction from the ski patrol at Niseko on the snow- covered northern island of Hokkaido .

To what extent should companies be allowed to protect themselves from hostile bids or creeping takeovers?

Until recently the general attitude toward daydreaming remained hostile. Daydreaming was viewed as a waste of time.

The building of socialism and communism is accompanied by an acute struggle against hostile elements and the imperialists.

Mr Schultz remains hostile to unions, but has decided to maintain the firm's popular health benefits, while cutting his own pay.

To her own consciousness, the flowery fields of her reason had rarely been ravaged by a hostile force.

What if the new one eventually delivers the greatest of the Arab nations into the patient hands of a hostile Muslim Brotherhood?

He treated the strategy of the hostile general like a citadel, and made a breach in it.

Prayed for the soul of a little boy grown up, rejected by life's rudeness and striving for acceptance in a hard, hostile world.

It was a delicate moment; I had to be conciliatory without seeming weak, strong without looking hostile.

In a world that is often hard and hostile, I need to guard against being suspicious of everyone I meet.

President Jefferson ordered a ban on trade with Europe. But it failed to end the hostile acts against the United States.

The Iraq war was a strategic decision by the Bush administration to remove a hostile government and a potential threat.

He angrily denied "hostile" questions by Afghan journalists that his staff had failed to go out on the ground.

It was very strange how hostile she was to all the beautiful girls approaching her husband.

What they, much to our surprise, we discovered that the Bendix Corporation had decided to take over our company, a hostile take-over.

Back in May 1940, we in the UK awoke to find facing us across the Channel a wholly hostile continental force about to invade.

"You have to go into a real hostile environment and try to win a game, " Bryant said.

In the light of this statement, a loving person lives in a loving world, a hostile person lives in a hostile world.

I myself will be hostile toward you and will afflict you for your sins seven times over.

He looked round the room again, where all those books gave him a feeling of something incomprehensible and hostile.

This kind of hostile reaction has only convinced the Greeks that this crisis is a two-way tug-of-war.

'Iran has never bowed and will never bow to hostile actions' and will continue to 'defend its rights, ' he said.

In fact, I may have been a bit hostile.

Hothouse flowers can not withstand the wind and rain is always baptism, the hostile environment is virtually honed our will.

Mr Hollande did not have to take on a war-weary or doubting public opinion, or hostile political opposition.

With the national mood so hostile to incumbents, it probably did not help that he is the fifth-oldest senator, and sounds it.

But as big a worry for the Vatican as a hostile greeting from some quarters must be an indifferent one from mainstream Britain.

But they might be even more hostile to any effort to kill the law.

strange how hostile she was to all the beautiful girls approaching her husband.

In Venezuela, currency exchange controls and a leadership hostile to free markets make it difficult to do business.

Most the British people and most Americans, mostly people from the allied powers were very hostile to German after the war.

But now that Rio is the subject of a hostile takeover bid from BHP, it has taken the lead on aggressive pricing.

This was the crown prince already continues the position, equally was hostile toward with the old elder the alien race.

William Hague, the shadow foreign secretary and former Tory leader, said naming him as president would be seen as a "hostile" act.

Randy balked. According to a brief Augusta later filed, he was concerned that she was "hostile to God" .

In the US, a minority seem to believe the federal government represents a hostile occupying power.

It is conceivable that the lack of love could make the children from the single-parents family become more hostile and cynical.

Mr Bush, who faces a hostile Congress, must pick his moment to battle for a renewal of his trade-negotiating authority.

As an archaeologist of discourse, Foucault disbelieved it and was strongly hostile to this kind of historicism and its basic subject.

But China's internet firms may not be much of a guide to the broader potential for hostile takeovers . They are a rare breed.

Jack stared through the windshield at the dozen hostile faces surrounding the car with what he hoped was a neutral, nonthreatening gaze.

I guess it was just the way I trained and the photos they ran of me looking so hostile.

That Mitt Romney is changing tells us that the popular mood towards China in the United States is now very hostile.

Any such group would have to include France, yet this is now one of the countries most hostile to the European project.

The military said the likely cause was mechanical problems, not hostile fire.

The two once hostile countries are now trying to cooperate with each other.

The Principal examines Denise with a silent and hostile attitude for a moment. He knows she's got him.

The posters here, (most of them), would NEVER understand what it means to fight for your place in hostile waters.

how hostile she was to all the beautiful girls approaching her husband.

To be sure, hostile takeover attempts still represent a minority of the record-breaking number of mergers today.

In Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905), he argued that gay sons are the result of dominant mothers and absent or hostile fathers.

Goethe was once strolling on a narrow path in a park in Weimar. As luck would have it, he met with a critic who was hostile to him.

Would one really want a fund run by the Russian authorities, say, deciding on the fate of a hostile banking takeover in Europe?

Thus, when faced with a hostile confrontation with a person, one will be able to speak, fight, or flee.

The houses should be built of mass-produced materials tough enough to protect their inhabitants from a hostile world.

The writer of Hebrews wants to keep hope alive as Jewish Christians try to live the Jesus life in a hostile world.

It could engage the enemy beyond the range of hostile torpedoes.

Democrats have become increasingly hostile to further trade liberalisation in the last two years.

They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse , either amicable or hostile, must continue between them.

Congressman Artur Davis of Alabama demanded. When Falcon tried to answer, Davis acted like a prosecutor grilling a hostile witness.

To exist within the hostile environment of the herding culture, vegan communities must be strong and committed.

A happy marriage apparently is good medicine, but hostile spouses may be harmful to one another's health.

Rest assured this hostile takeover of our legal system by Big Money interests is not going to stop.

I'd have him off it, if he was still a hostile like he used to be.

But the Pentagon termed the Iranian actions "careless, reckless and potentially hostile" and said Tehran should provide an explanation.

In the present climate, hostile to Mr Koizumi'slegacy if not the man himself, such a reformist grouping would have its work cut out.

The files of reconciliation have been compiled by the versatile man with a hostile tackle in the fertile wrinkles.

The Conservatives, who won a majority in May after five years of minority government, have long been hostile to unions.

US and allied pilots have flown thousands of combat missions over hostile territory since the Gulf War.

Two hours ago, a violent insurgent group hostile to the Panamanian government attacked the Office of the Interior Minister.

White knight " is an informal term that refers to a business that prevents a hostile takeover of another company by offering better terms. "

The kids were kind of talking, but it was all friendly, nothing hostile.

Many Taiwanese remain deeply hostile to Beijing and the idea of any reunification with mainland China.

Edelweiss and gentian are two of the best known Alpine flowers , but many others are also perfectly adapted to this hostile environment .

Hostile forces realize that so long AS we of the older generation are still alive and carry weight, no change is possible.

We spent most of our time determining whether the hoard of dismounts we saw were hostile or not.

They must remain face to face. And relations -- friendly or hostile -- must continue between them.

It's as though Mexico and Canada were hostile neighbors to the United States, which they're not.

It may face a hostile reception by lawmakers if it tries to tap the second half of its promised $700 billion.

Since then, its members have had a hostile relationship with foreign aid groups.

an attempt to prevent a hostile takeover in which a targeted company bids to take over the hostile firm.

Goods are shipped thousands of miles out of the way simply to avoid hostile territory.

ON concedes that building new nuclear plants in Germany would be inconceivable, since public opinion is so hostile.

They encroached on hangar space in return for a very dubious contribution to the ships' defence against hostile cruisers.

Afghanistan, to the north, has long been a hostile neighbour.

The center is located at Balad, an enormous American base in one of the most hostile parts of the country.

Joe Biden was right. Hostile forces will test him in the first few months.

Their extraordinarily circuitous route reflected uncertainty about their ultimate destination, as well as the need to avoid hostile forces.

Chinalco's original 2008 investment strengthened the company's defence against the hostile approach from BHP.

They are hypothetical human beings modified for life in a hostile or alien environment by the substitution of artificial organs.

North Korean government propaganda has always portrayed the United States as a hostile aggressor.

Of or relating to the preservation of peace, especially the supervision by international forces of a truce between hostile nations.

They were sentenced in June to 12 years of hard labour for entering the country illegally and engaging in "hostile acts" .

He suggested that Egypt would not be hostile to the West, but would not be as compliant as Mr. Mubarak either.

Big dogs like the * in Anatolian shepherd or great p Great Pyrenees can guard guard them from hostile animals.

' Paris and Berlin have been openly hostile to the U. S. president's calls for more fiscal stimulus.

Foreign residents now complain of increasing visa problems and a more hostile tax regime.

The team explained that two tests were carried out in an urban park, with two feeders - one neutral and one hostile.

However , this friendly alliance had been unsoldered by a hostile bid for both companies by BNP, a French rival .

People who organise protests judged hostile or subversive are routinely detained, jailed or, in the case of foreigners, deported.

Many were hostile to the new government, but See says others, especially among the young, were sympathetic.

It was a chemical-rich, turbulent, well-mixed, neutral-to-oxidizing world that was extremely hostile to the proposed organic soup.

Rio is currently the subject of hostile takeover interest from rival BHP Billiton, meaning voting interest on Rio's shares could be crucial.

If the fund belonged to a government deemed potentially hostile, the concern must be bigger.

She claims series creator Marc Cherry created a hostile work environment, "behaving in an extremely abusive and aggressive manner. "

Even the United States, which under George Bush adopted an implacably hostile attitude to Mr Assad, has retracted some prickles.

Raymond: I think one of the things you can learn from this book is why UNIX programmers have historically been hostile toward IDEs.

Jesus faced the cruel injustice of a hostile world, but perhaps His deepest pain came when His closest friends deserted and betrayed Him.

A company that was trying to repel a hostile takeover.

The American public, already skeptical of free trade, is becoming increasingly hostile to it.

Rather, LGB individuals are often raised in communities that are either ignorant of or openly hostile toward homosexuality.

You might expect a rapid feedback loop that's friendly to the developer experience to be hostile to production applications.

I am not an expert on HR law, but I would put your situation in the category of a potential hostile work environment.

It's symbolic of an attempt to cling on to an identity that is being eroded in a hostile environment.

The first clue that your behavior in a situation is hostile can be gleaned from your answer to the question.

It took swift decisions and went hostile early in the process, although the deal was subsequently recommended.

This data exchange in the military field is based upon encrypted signals which cannot be analyzed or jammed by hostile forces.

But for some drivers that emotional reaction can burst out of control and result in hostile reactions toward other drivers.

It would provide new proof that the court is hostile to campaign finance laws without good reason.

The fact remains, however, that if his comments bother you, he is creating a hostile work environment, whether purposely or not.

The idea of a British army ever again confronting a national army of a hostile state, or groups of insurgents, in the open is anachronistic.

Cadbury, a venerable chocolate-maker, is just the latest household name to be swallowed by foreigners after a hostile takeover bid.

Pair of Iranian Westpolitik are big suddenly turn hostile, one has changed Hatami times mildness , has embodied out everywhere flinty.

Pyongyang claims that foreign broadcasts are part of the Obama administration's 'hostile policy' toward the North.

And even if he could somehow be portrayed as wildly hostile to Israel, the Democrats on the Hill cannot be.

Nobody came close to shooting one down, even as it flew deep inside hostile territory.

Players take the role of spaceship pilots seeking fame, fortune, and adventure in a huge, complex, exciting, and sometimes hostile galaxy.

That does not mean relations are destined to be hostile although they could be if mishandled.

For most tumors of the adult, cancer cells result from the rewiring of control circuits in response to a hostile environment.

The relations between the DPRK and the US must be turned from being hostile to peaceful through bilateral talks.

Ur first reaction would be a bit hostile.

Magic serves a very hostile role of catering itself to teenagers and early twenty-some things around the world.

The Chinese perception that the US is hostile to Chinese buyers of hard assets can only be a bad thing.

Hostile references to Wal-Mart and Starbucks outnumber those to any Wall Street firms.

Military operations directed against hostile shores and characterized by attacks launched from the sea by naval and landing forces.

Heavy Facebook users show signs of being more gregarious, but they are also more likely to be anxious, hostile or depressed.

Governor Burns later sent a delegation to the Canton Trade Fair, as the political climate was complicated and hostile at the time.

Hostile feelings are usually caused not so much by dislike as by wounded pride.

Henry's modesty has seemed to hostile critics a form of conceit on a gigantic scale.

Potash said that BHP had made unsolicited contact with its customers as part of BHP's $39bn hostile bid for the Canadian company.

Previous attempts by the Dubai-based billionaire to visit Japan and other major nations have been stymied by a hostile Thai government.

Its last Lord it here seeketh: hostile will it be to him, and to its last God; for victory will it struggle with the great dragon.

Simply put, the existing C-runtime functions are not good enough in light of today's hostile environment.

Similarly, some vendors who are active in closed-source markets tend to be hostile to open source.

Many Europeans may view the U. S. as an arrogant superpower that has become hostile to foreigners.

It has squandered its oil wealth in an effort to promote its hostile, anti-American vision.

"The majority of Americans are more ambivalent than hostile [to undocumented immigration], " says Massey, a professor at Princeton.

Flouting its hallowed doctrine of "non-interference" , it has nudged them into slightly less hostile stances towards the West.

A merchant dealing in minor magic items and rare spell components needs escorts for a caravan that must cross hostile territory.

Mr Obama's lawyer choked on his water, faltered in his opening statement, then endured a battery of hostile questioning.

If new regimes emerged that were more hostile to outsiders, that might have a lasting effect on production.

Out of all the feedback I have received over the last three years very, very little has been hostile, angry or nasty.

To deal with hostile takeover, some listed companies have passed some amendments to the constitution adopting anti-takeover measures.

This may mean more hostile rhetoric and possibly actions in the former Soviet republics which Russia considers its own sphere of influence.

The company insisted that the offer for GPA was not hostile.

The French are almost uniquely hostile to the capitalist system that has made them one of the world's richest people.

People should not be hostile to any change .

Mr Hague told EU ambassadors that choosing Mr Blair would be interpreted as a hostile act.

To organized activities, or arise from some personal derive or gregarious instinct, it may be friendly or hostile.

Hildegard received a fax informing her that her son planned a hostile buyout of her 25% equity stake.

Well, as I said, it's partly they're both hostile to India, more or less.

or they can be hostile, mean, and dangerous - just to name a few of the many behaviors they're capable of.

The recommendations of this report not surprisingly produced a hostile reaction from academic libraries.

This lack of humility could cost moneymen dear as it whips politicians and the press into an increasingly hostile alliance.

If relations between India and China were to become hostile, the world--and especially the region--would suffer.

Some of the president's allies in Congress are sceptical or even hostile towards it.

It remains to be seen whether this wave of hostile bids will turn out any better than those in the 1980s.

Though he was a scourge of the Bush administration, he has been critical, if not hostile, to the Obama White House.

But that lack of a large holding in the group left Bouygues SA vulnerable to a hostile bid.