When it comes to getting ahead at work, when does being assertive cross into hostile territory?

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Those on low incomes often regard banks as hostile territory, the preserve of the wealthy.

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Yet even with all this going for them, the Democrats are operating in hostile territory.

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These are not states with well-trained Rapid Reaction Forces, nor the airlift or support to inject a sizeable presence into hostile territory.

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Joining the CIA during the heyday of spy vs. spy, Mendez's specialty was exfiltration -- getting friendly agents out of hostile territory.

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Brazil was built in a hostile territory larger than Europe.

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It's just not safe to be in a hostile territory.

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And, in the gay community, we're too shy about being who we are, especially if we find ourselves in seemingly hostile or unwelcoming territory.

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It has moved south and west, into territory traditionally hostile to unions.

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