The companies already face hostility from politicians and consumer groups, yet, thanks to recent and present energy policy, huge rises in bills are inevitable.

Agents face hostility from many of the people they encounter in the desert.

Investing in oil and gas has become increasingly sensitive for universities, which face hostility from the green lobby and their own staff and students.

She now faces hostility from within her adopted party, some of whose members have been trying to get her deselected.

Some people from traditional faith backgrounds faced hostility from families and community.

This discretion resembles a survival strategy: just one of many needed in the jungle, where her pregnancy was greeted with intense hostility by her fellow hostages.

They were the subject of intense hostility on the mainland into the 1940s.

The family was met with intense hostility by local residents.

How long before the mutual hostility leads to the appeal with 20 toes, we yawn.

Inevitably their initial mutual hostility turns to attraction, and both characters end up questioning their lifestyle choices.

Such reckless ignorance simply nourishes mutual hostility and dodges the real issues at stake.

The tale of the past thousand years has been a saga of mutual hostility punctuated by invasions, battles, sieges, insults, deceptions and the occasional - very occasional - outbreak of peace.

Out of the chaos, an atmosphere of mutual hostility arose between the judge and attorneys.

Passive aggression can show itself both verbally and non-verbally and be just as destructive as overt hostility.

There was none of the overt hostility manifested towards the prime minister.

Though all the characters were designed to be neutral, showing neither overt hostility nor friendliness, the volunteers interpreted the same characters in very different ways.

Following this event there was no overt hostility between the two powers for many years.

Nonetheless, the approach later became a clich and led to a widespread hostility towards the style.

The commission, however, composed as it was by a large number of government officials, provoked widespread hostility and had to be abandoned.

It was met with widespread hostility from heritage activists and the general community, which submitted more than 3,300 signatories in a petition against the scheme.

The joke was met with widespread hostility from fans.

The commissioners were paid $4 a day for their work, and were empowered to enter onto private property to undertake their duties; this was greeted with widespread hostility from property owners.