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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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 .

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

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

But his instincts are plainly hostile to the free flow of goods, investment and people across borders.

First, secularization has been promoted by those whom have been hostile to traditional religion, especially Christianity.

Those set against the treaty also claim that Colombia's government is hostile to labour unions, citing union members' deaths as evidence.

Also hostile to a powerful presidential figure - apparently ruling out Mr Blair - are Austria and Sweden.

The Obama administration was viewed as hostile to business and that discouraged both hiring and investment. '

And the standard of the reasonable commercial person is hostile to technical interpretations and undue emphasis on niceties of language.

But none have been found. That means any oceans were cold or short- lived or ice - covered or otherwise hostile to carbonates.

Still, regime change will inevitably produce governments that are less compliant to Washington, and less hostile to Tehran.

Without the "oxygen elevator" in its mantle the earth would probably be a barren planet hostile to life.

Hostile to or disruptive of the established social order; marked by or engaging in behavior that violates accepted mores.

The public is hostile to that idea and the courts have been sceptical.

She was hostile to her colleagues .

That Vulcan was not permanently hostile to Juno is shown by the service that on various occasions he rendered her.

Slowly, we unfamiliar, did not have before the happy talk and laughter, were many has been hostile to.

Elevating a prominent Indian-American may help Mr Obama court America's medical lobby, which has traditionally been hostile to reform.

Hospitals are more frequently not hospitable but rather hostile to waiting patients.

Surprisingly, democracies are not necessarily more hostile to the practice than non-democracies.

It's hard to say that when or for what they have been so hostile to each other.

Most hosts are hostile to the foremost ghost captive about to the utmost.

Energy interests, never a fan of Democratic regulatory policies, have turned particularly hostile to Mr. Obama.

Arguing with people who are viscerally hostile to what you believe is a waste of time and energy.

He was aggressively anti-intellectual and hostile to east-coast preppy types like his father, sometimes cruelly so.

Yelling and shoving ensued after employees from the property management office turned hostile to the TV crew.

In a country hostile to flashy displays of wealth, he once declared, "I don't like rich people. "

A squeezed budget is one reason why Los Angeles County's DA, Steve Cooley, is hostile to three strikes laws.

Yet another is an Iraq in thrall to a nuclear-arming Iran that is increasingly hostile to Western friends and interests in the Middle East.

Some persons believe this constitutes evidence that inanimate objects are not entirely hostile to man.

Some of them were apparently members of Alawite gangs, hostile to the protesters.

The same majority back his drive to talk to foreign leaders hostile to the US.

Something in her was hostile to catholic, as to foreigners.

It reflects the aberrant personality of some American politicians hostile to China's development and becoming powerful.

Brazil's finance minister, Guido Mantega, insists that "it's not true that the government is hostile to regulatory agencies. "

India has grown unpopular among young Nepalis, and Prachanda's Maoist party is openly hostile to New Delhi.

The alternative view is sceptical of, or even downright hostile to, the modern food business.

The poles are permanently capped with ice. Nowhere is colder, windier or more hostile to life.

A 2006 study found that in Italy and Poland, practising Catholics were more hostile to euthanasia than their less devout compatriots.

In response, young samurai from feudal Domains historically hostile to the Tokugawa regime took up arms against the government.

People with bipolar disorder sometimes become hostile to those with neutral facial expressions.

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The case has often been cited as evidence that President Barack Obama is hostile to business.

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

They are all pretty much hostile to the idea of intervention in the domestic affairs of sovereign states.

Modern Chinese society hardly seems hostile to the idea of consumption.

Certain of my family members are hostile to other members.

It proceeded slowly because many scholars were hostile to the common people.

When Nato moved to intervene in Libya, Mr Putin in the prime minister's office was openly hostile to the idea.

Japanese companies are traditionally hostile to outsiders, and Aderans upholds the custom.

We had one warder at the quarry who seemed particularly hostile to us.

China should condemn Buddha and be hostile to his teachings for they are but principles of fairies or demons which live in the trees.

Iraqi public opinion is very hostile to the idea of foreign companies profiting from its oil, limiting the government's room for manoeuvre.

Ferocious, domineering, loyal to their masters, hostile to strangers guarding the house, is a good helper.

I have no time to tell you the whole story, in a word, they became hostile to each other.

I have no time to tell you the whole story, in a word, they become hostile to each other.

Their views have also generally been hostile to Indonesia's Christians.

Iran's government has long been hostile to neckties, which is seen as a symbol of Western decadence.

The Boomers are not hostile to the player in person when first encountered.

They began torturing animals, and the animals withdrew from them into the forests and became hostile to them.

Most hosts are hostile to the foremost ghost hostage almost to the utmost.

They are all hostile to globalisation and to immigration, particularly from the Muslim world.

The Poles, Slovaks and Czechs were also hostile to the Hungarian plan.

So the real question should be why so many of the British (and more specifically, the English) are so hostile to the European project.

Although Koguryo Dynasty tribute to the newly established, but in fact Quedui who harbor hostile to the Tang Dynasty.

And how do artists navigate a world that's largely indifferent (if not hostile) to their species?

even people , who had before been spiteful and openly hostile to him , became tender and affectionate.

M theory demonstrates that most of the predicted universes are unreconcilably hostile to life as we know it.

This is pushing Latinos away from the Republican Party, which they view as hostile to immigrants, and toward the Democrats by default.

China has grown increasingly hostile to the Dalai Lama after severe ethnic unrest in Tibet in 2008.

I neither complain for lacking money nor hostile to riches and honour.

This is in part because both have members who are sceptical or even hostile to the Libyan adventure, notably Germany and (in NATO) Turkey.

Ever since I got better marks than Parker, he has been hostile to me.

Critics argue this stunt is hostile to the Catholic Church.

He wasn't exactly hostile to facts but he was apathetic about them.

His supporters insist that he is detached from banks rather than hostile to them; but many in the City detect a grudge.

I wonder why koreans are hostile to Chinese? Why did you always create disturbances to heavily hurt us?

What is more, Britain's upper echelons are not theologically opposed to working with Europe, nor hostile to European values.

Generally speaking, the universe is hostile to man.

Britons were the most hostile to immigration.

But people who are cut offnot only from foreign tourists, but even fromtheir own countrymen can be hostile to travelers.

The trouble is that, although the Conservatives are in favour, the Lib Dems have traditionally been hostile to nuclear power.

[20] Many miners were also very hostile to journalists and reporters who came near pit heads.

I think they're right that evolution is fundamentally hostile to religion.

In polls they are far more hostile to free markets than Germans, Chinese or Russians.

Her image accompanied me even in places the most hostile to romance.

The natives are hostile to out-of-towners.

I must tell you: we don't want you have hostile to China affectively , but actually I can't believe you are kind.

This is one reason why the Democratic Party's core supporters are reflexively hostile to free trade.

Modern Chinese society hardly seems hostile to the idea of consumption. The problem is how little money so many people have.

accompanied me even in places the most hostile to romance.

France and Germany are hostile to the Commission, partly because it harries them for breaching single market rules.

Mr Obama must dispatch the canard that he is hostile to the Jewish state.

Conversely, if a criminal who has been very light equally severe treatment, make him more hostile to society.

but even from their own countrymen can be hostile to travellers.

At worst, they sound hostile to democracy.

The Chinese is hostile to the Taliban, as a muslin radical force.

Derro settlements are long term affairs, only moving when the local area becomes too hostile to live in.

But people who are cut off not only from foreign tourists, but even from their own countrymen can be hostile to travellers.

They hate the overseas Chinese even more, considered them as the people who discontent with their lot, and were hostile to them.

Am I hostile to working mothers?

The team manager was hostile to our proposals.

Any force trying to block assimilation is hostile to the highest profit of our country.

Horsepower was hostile to them.

The new government was hostile to them.

One is that the spirit of Islam is hostile to commerce.

If a future government, hostile to school choice, changed the rules, that would be the end of this nascent market.

She is hostile to people who go poking into her private affairs.

eg. I don't know why she is hostile to me.

Gen 26: 27 Isaac asked them, "Why have you come to me, since you were hostile to me and sent me away? "

Most dogs are hostile to cats. Why is that?

Most of us work and live in environments that are rather hostile to the development of conscience.

This is because him himself can not be hostile to reason long- termly either.

You need to remember who is allied with, hostile to, or lusts after whom, and act accordingly.

Eileen Chang's negative writing on mother image innate its reason: unusual family background has made her hostile to the parents;

Relationship with the members, the members of the former and more intimate group, the members of the group more hostile to outside;

In women, causes include ovulation or hormone problems, fallopian-tube disorders, and a chemical balance that is hostile to sperm;

"The Capitalist Production Is Hostile to Some Spiritual Production Departments" --A Consideration on One of Karl Marx'statements

Those people . . . in the parable . . . represent those who are actually hostile to Biblical truth