And with the rise of the far right, civil society itself is more hostile.
The "Tuareg question" remains unsolved, with southerners now even more hostile to Tuareg separatism.
But they might be even more hostile to any effort to kill the law.
Even as Saunders grapples with a receding economic tide, the competitive landscape around him is becoming more hostile.
Hold on, because yet another new idea, much more hostile to minimum wages, has now been put forward.
Viewed from this angle, libertarianism is actually far more hostile to knee-jerk plutocracy than either Krugman or Kotkin might think.
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Critics take a harsher view, saying Mr Karzai is worried about a more hostile parliament dominated by an enlarged block of opposition MPs.
What was not known was that Mr Fastow's recollections over time became more hostile to Mr Skilling and more helpful to the government.
Though the incoming Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, might be prepared to accept a temporary surge, others among the Democrats are more hostile.
Even in California, a state more hostile to Wal-Mart expansion than others, the company managed to convert more than 30 old-style stores last year.
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Where once Tory associations pushed their MPs to be more hostile to Europe, many have now had the chance to choose more Eurosceptic candidates.
Chairman Bernanke seemed to take the upper hand over Rep. Ryan in what was the first of many more hostile interactions between Congress and the Fed.
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Although some states, such as Texas and Virginia, ban collective bargaining and others restrict it, in Ohio the reaction to this proposition has been far more hostile.
The closer we look, the more hostile the planet seems: parched and frozen in every season, its atmosphere inert and murderously thin, its surface scoured by solar winds.
She also said the party had to understand that "people are much more sceptical and much more hostile about the idea of the state spending money on their behalf".
In which case they will be driven, by a coalition of government budget-minders and populist scolds, into failure, thanks to a political process ever more hostile to profiteering on the sick.
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And a sharp catch by Alastair Cook to end the Little Master's innings forced Sourav Ganguly to come out and face some more hostile bowling as England refused to accept defeat.
If you own stock in a company that is the object of one or more hostile takeover bids it could mean that it is viewed as financially weak and a good "buying" opportunity for a larger entity.
For a start, the board's worries about the large bonuses that Messrs Kozlowski and Swartz were stuffing into their pockets appear to have materialised well after the payments took place and in a more hostile and threatening legal climate.
Former Labour minister Caroline Flint said a minister had suggested the reason for allowing defendants to stay anonymous was because of the "stigma" attached to rape - yet evidence suggested the public were "far more hostile" to paedophiles and murderers.
That means the moderate Democrats in the House and Senate who are up for re-election this fall will be wading into an even more hostile political climate than when they initially bit the bullet to back their party last year.
Instead, Tony Blair seems to have become more hostile to it either because he is accused in Britain of sacrificing the Thatcher money or, as France's Jacques Chirac suggested this week, because his chancellor, Gordon Brown, has insisted on a tougher line.
Add up all the coded messages and it is pretty clear that Mr Blair is even more hostile than he was last January, when the government published a white paper on the Lords, towards direct election to the reformed upper house.
Yet recent events in the financial markets add some weight to Mr Skilling's story though today's credit crunch creates a far more hostile environment that the one Enron faced and nobody is (yet) alleging the sort of fraudulent behaviour on Wall Street that apparently took place at Enron.
Lib Dem supporters who voted Labour last time to ensure a Tory defeat will, the theory goes, be less inclined to do so next month, partly because they feel more hostile towards the government because of Iraq and partly because they no longer fear a Tory recovery.
An unfriendly government in Egypt would deprive Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of his only ally in a region that has grown more hostile toward Israel over the past several years, with the growing influence of Iran, the armed takeover of Gaza by Hamas, the rise of Hezbollah as a major political force in Lebanon, and Turkey's tilt away from Israel and toward Syria.
But late Tuesday, it faced a more-hostile reception at a town park in northern Uganda, where Mr. Kony based his two-decade insurgency until 2005.
Did your view of MPs change in terms of how favourable you were or against MPs you were, did you become more favourable the more you looked in to it, or more kind of hostile to MPs, the more you looked in to it.
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