Another seven of his 27 party members are known to be hostile to the latest deal.
Worse for Europe, the French had recently elected a socialist who was known to be hostile to wealth.
But the language seems to imply that the acquisition attempt is not only unsolicited, it could be hostile.
Regulators should be hostile to rent-seeking by the established, and hospitable to the companies whose names we do not know.
We should agree that conferences should not be hostile places where people watch their backs for surreptitious photos being taken of them.
Never be hostile, attack a client, or write a flaming goodbye.
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Our political editor says that with the Liberal Democrats less likely to be hostile to the possibility of statutory regulation, Mr Clegg could "take the extraordinary step of speaking in the Commons after the prime minister and in opposition to him".
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He has a large majority and public opinion may be less hostile than some of his critics suggest.
Where once Tory associations pushed their MPs to be more hostile to Europe, many have now had the chance to choose more Eurosceptic candidates.
It is perfectly possible for that same centrist to be instinctively hostile to the EU's institutions, associating them with waste, corrupt bureaucrats and meddling.
Public opinion, however, may be less hostile than the political elite.
Regional officer for the NUT, Martin O'Gilvie, said there will not be a "hostile picket line" and it will be "more of a celebration of state education".
But they might be even more hostile to any effort to kill the law.
The commandos boarded the ship armed with paintball guns expecting to be greeted by hostile, but non-violent humanitarian activists.
The union-dominated teaching corps can be expected to be just as hostile as college professors to moving K-12 to MOOCs.
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Their interest was sparked not merely by a liquidity surge generated by windfall oil revenues, but also by liberalising economic policies, strong corporate performances, a gush of public share offerings and a general wariness of investing abroad in what is perceived to be a potentially hostile West.
Worse still, if the majority was won at Westminster, the referendum would be organised by a hostile government.
Last September, Capt James Townley died in a shooting incident not thought to be the result of hostile action.
Their approach to the talks on the Free-Trade Area of the Americas is likely to be assertive but not hostile.
Although Ofcom recognised the comments were "intended to be humorous", it ruled they could reasonably be seen as "hostile and pejorative".
Mr Walker found the deaths had been "entirely avoidable" and blamed a series of "glaring failures" that led the plane to be labelled as a hostile missile.
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Yasser Arafat could unilaterally declare a Palestinian state, but this would be seen as a hostile move by Israel which has said it would respond by annexing parts of the West Bank.
But if they do end up revamping Mecca, they should be prepared for a particularly hostile reaction.
The issue of concentration will also be big, as the hostile bid would go against the trend of fragmentation in the stock market.
For Netanyahu, however, buying time with a hostile administration may be the best he can aspire to during his current term in office.
Typically, the more decisively the former is resourced relative to the latter, the more likely it is that hostile parties will be dissuaded from threatening us or our interests.
But that often proved impossible, either because a suspect could not be linked to a specific hostile country or because the ability to make that connection hinged on court-ordered surveillance.
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