He gave military officers the power to arrest civilians believed to be hostile to the Union.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

In other words, you can win people to your side more easily with gentle persuasion than by hostile actions.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

Some women who answered the questions were found to be cynically hostile, or highly untrusting of others.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

"So what we're trying to do is give tools to allow people in countries that have hostile regimes to circumvent,to go around, the blockage or the filtering that their own governments do."

VOA: special.2011.06.20

Since then,North Korea has cooled its hostile rhetoric and offered to engage with the United States and South Korea.

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

Many of these and there are more than 225 and the number is growing will have to be investigated on location in a country with rugged and hostile terrain.

VOA: standard.2009.08.23

While calling the Cuban statement hostile and reminiscent of the Cold War, Susan Rice said the Obama administration is committed to trying to write a new chapter in relations with Cuba by engaging the Havana government.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

The general said that attitude among most alliance members makes it impossible for NATO's International Assistance Force in Afghanistan to pursue an effective counterinsurgency campaign, involving clearing areas of hostile fighters, and holding those areas so economic development and governance projects can proceed.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

"The draft resolution is nothing more than a document of political conspiracy of hostile forces, to put the veil of a unanimous message of the international community on the U.S.-led human rights campaign against the DPRK in a bid to deny and obliterate the state and social system of the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.20