Unfriendly Sentence Examples

Her unfriendly gaze shifted to Katie.

Some unfriendly lowlife put a bullet in each of his pretty blue eyes.

The Church, it is true, in council after council, passed decisions unfriendly to the Jews.

His earlier volumes of poems, dealing with romantic themes, received little but unfriendly comment.

Do not approach your neighbor with an unfriendly attitude.

But Benjamin's management of the paper, and particularly his free-thinking, displeased the authorities; the relations of the two brothers gradually grew unfriendly, possibly, as Benjamin thought, because of his brother's jealousy of his superior ability; and Benjamin determined to quit his brother's employ and to leave New England.

Relations with England were now unfriendly, and parliament, in March 1482, denounced Edward IV.

If France, for example, permitted in Tunis or other protectorates operations of an unfriendly character to any power, the injured power would no doubt look to France for redress.

Menno's writings in Plattdeutsch, printed at various places, are numerous, with much sameness, and what an unfriendly critic would call wool-gathering; through them shines a character attractive by the sincerity of its simple and warm spirituality, the secret of Menno's influence.

The presence or absence of useful minerals, plants and animals rendered some congenial, others unfriendly; some areas were the patrons of virile occupations, others of feminine pursuits.

Thirdly, the signatory powers agree that it shall not be regarded as an unfriendly act if one or more powers, strangers to the dispute, on their own initiative offer their good offices or mediation to the states in disagreement, or even during hostilities, if war has already broken out.

He ran as fast as he could through the unfriendly forest, cursing Death for stripping his power.

Stephen's relations with Henry became unfriendly, and in January 1138, in pursuance of Henry's claim to Northumberland, David again invaded.

He advised his fellow-townsmen to send Helen back to her husband, and showed himself not unfriendly to the Greeks and an advocate of peace.

Moreover it is very improbable that he could ever have shone as a public speaker, and to this fact unfriendly critics have attributed, at least in part, his abstention from debate.

Richards one ruling passion was now to punish Philip of France for his unfriendly conduct during his absence.

The alliance arranged at Tilsit was seriously shaken by the Austrian marriage, the threat of a Polish restoration, and the unfriendly policy of Napoleon.

I'd have to disagree with the " not unfriendly " part of that statement.

A conflict between Corcyra and Corinth, the second and third naval powers of Greece, led to the simultaneous appearance in Athens of an embassy from either combatant (433) Pericles had, as it seems, resumed of late a plan of Western expansion by forming alliances with Rhegium and Leontini, and the favourable position of Corcyra on the traderoute to Sicily and Italy, as well as its powerful fleet, no doubt helped to induce him to secure an alliance with that island, and so to commit an unfriendly act towards a leading representative of the Peloponnesian League.

But why do churches become so unfriendly, and how can we create a culture of welcome?

Williams ' statement has upset the Europhiles because of its tone, which they see as essentially unfriendly toward Europe.

But when spiritual and secular interests come into unfriendly contact and entanglement; when controversy in regard to them becomes inevitable; from which sphere, the spiritual or the civil, is the final decision to come?

On one point, however, this description was not accurate; Russia sulked so far as Austria was concerned, for she could not forget that the emperor Francis Joseph, by his wavering and unfriendly conduct towards her during the Crimean War, had ill repaid her assistance to the Habsburg Monarchy in 1849, and had fulfilled the cynical prediction of Prince Schwarzenberg that his country would astonish the world by her ingratitude.

The absence of direct testimony can be partially supplied by later events which presuppose the break-up of no inconsiderable state, and imply relations with Samaria which had been by no means so unfriendly as the historians represent.

At a higher stage the spirits of dead kinsmen are no longer unfriendly, nor yet all non-human spirits; as fetishes (see Fetishism), naguals (see Totem), familiars, gods or demi-gods (for which and the general question see Demonology), they enter into relations with man.

Friendly bacteria constantly compete with unfriendly bacteria to maintain healthy balance.

Of course, not every body or every nation can manage to survive and sustain in unfriendly environment.

The internet is an unfriendly place for women wanting to write about politics.

These batteries are environmentally unfriendly, and disposing of them has become an increasing problem.

Any long-locked gal who has ever been caught in a decent breeze knows the annoyance of having strands of hair blow forward and abruptly stick to her mouth thanks to an unfriendly gloss now working as glue.

Some of these microorganisms are harmful, so the health of an individual depends on maintaining the correct balance of friendly and unfriendly bacteria.

Rubber mulch prevents sunlight from touching the weed seeds and also creates an unfriendly barrier for searching weed roots looking to retain a foothold.

Clay makes it hard for water to drain, and creates an unfriendly environment for plant roots because it's difficult for air to circulate.

An invasive, unfriendly tongue is not attractive.

There is a bounty hunter in the barn who is considered mean and unfriendly.

Kids also like the durability, pointing out that the shoes hold up well to foot-stomping of both the friendly and unfriendly variety.

The amount of expectation that comes onto a girl when she's approaching home plate with a bat, expected to hit a high-velocity object hurled at her by a very unfriendly pitcher, is almost as bad as public speaking.

Pilots of both kinds of ship wore Battlestar Galactica helmets for a number of reasons including protection when fighting, and if by chance they were shot down, and found themselves grounded on an alien world with an unfriendly atmosphere.

In fact, only hosts that either insist you use their web design interface, or those that are specifically designed for other programs (usually Microsoft's FrontPage), will be unfriendly toward Dreamweaver.

Unfortunately, the early web was fairly unfriendly to graphics, and often art contributions ended up being simple background GIFs and little more.

Jule's smiles were less reserved than those of the other men despite his unfriendly appearance.

Given his guard of four warriors and his unfriendly gaze, maybe she should be grateful someone wrenched her arm off to get her away from him.

More likely Clara wanted to ask questions, but if she said no it might be construed as unfriendly.

For this unfriendly act he was deposed and replaced by Biren, who had previously been duke of Courland (1737-40) and had since been an exile in Siberia and Yarosla y.

During the campaign many prominent labour leaders opposed the election of Mr Taft, on the ground that his decisions while on the bench had been unfriendly to organized labour.

He magnanimously pardoned his brother, and they lived on not unfriendly terms for the next five years.

A strong party in the Provinces were unfriendly to the Commonwealth, and insults were offered in the Hague to the English envoys.

But even in censure Johnson's tone is not unfriendly.

The new emperor proved unfriendly to the Venetians and made difficulties about renewing their privileges.

He was in deep poverty, the Estates were chary of supplies, plotters in Scotland had been offering to Cecil to kidnap the king (1598), and his relations both with the English government and with his own subdued but struggling preachers were bitterly unfriendly.

His efforts to secure a permanent fixed salary for himself (of 1000) were unsuccessful; and his attempt to prevent the further issue of paper money also involved him in a controversy with the General Court; but their relations were not unfriendly after 1743.

The Indians saw with alarm the movement of so many whites through their hunting grounds and became increasingly unfriendly.

Although in 1540 the English king made another attempt to win the support, or at least the neutrality, of James for his religious policy, the relations between the two countries became very unfriendly, and in 1542 Henry sent an army to invade Scotland.

With the king unfriendly, and Newcastle, whose corrupt influence was still dominant in the Commons, estranged, it was impossible to carry on a government by the aid of public opinion alone, however emphatically that might have declared itself on his side.

It dwelt at length upon such topics as the premature recognition of belligerency, the unfriendly utterances of British politicians and the material assistance afforded to the Confederates by British traders.

To be dropped into a lake while shady Immortals and an unfriendly Death argued silently nearby?

Even conventional systems can struggle with the unfriendly loads imposed by a number of xenon beacons operating together.

The cleaner does not contain any cyanide or environmentally unfriendly detergent compounds.

Lots of booming and multiple reflections from the hard perimeter walls made the room very unfriendly in terms of sound quality.

I only found the office staff unfriendly, ever time we have used this we have found the bus drivers a lot nicer.

He was a man of about fifty, rather unfriendly, who was in the process of having all his teeth out.

We do have to lift over some particularly unfriendly ones.

The King of the island proved very unfriendly to them.

Sometimes inviting a friend to fish and then leaving them alone can seem unfriendly.

Cute security - razor wire doesn't have to look unfriendly.

Even in someone with a healthy lifestyle, the cholesterol profile sometimes remains so unfriendly that it raises risk to an unacceptable level.

Both armies were very indifferently supplied with information, as both were without any reliable regular cavalry capable of piercing the screen of outposts with which each endeavoured to conceal his disposition, and Napoleon, operating in a most unfriendly country, suffered more in this respect than his adversaries.

From that day he became an acknowledged power in the House, and though addressing a most unfriendly audience, he compelled attention by his thorough mastery of his subject, and by the courageous boldness with which he charged the ranks of his adversaries.

I 'd have to disagree with the " not unfriendly " part of that statement.

Cute security - razor wire does n't have to look unfriendly.

When you do visit, make sure to take an official tour or use a guide lest you run into any unfriendly spirits that wish you harm.

Although at first unfriendly to the Federal Constitution as drafted by the convention at Philadelphia, he was finally won over to its support, and in 1788 he presided over the Massachusetts convention which ratified the instrument.

Valdemar's skilful diplomacy, reinforced by golden arguments, did indeed induce the dukes of Brunswick, Brandenburg and Pomerania to attack the confederates in the rear; but fortune was persistently unfriendly to the Danish king, 1 Rostock, Greifswald, Wismar and Stralsund.

But, owing largely to the unfriendly attitude of Great Britain to the northern side during the war, the United States cancelled the treaty, when its first term of ten years ended in 1865, and it has never been renewed.

His administration as finance minister of Canada was important, since in 1897 he introduced a new tariff, granting to the manufactures of Great Britain a preference, subsequently increased; and later he imposed a special surtax on German imports owing to unfriendly tariff legislation by that country.

Fed up, he drunkenly steals his unfriendly wifes (an uncredited Courtney Cox) luxury car and drives it into a multi-car pileup.

The reports of the earlier wise men, men of practical sagacity in political and social affairs, have come to us from unfriendly sources; it is quite possible that among them were some who took interest in life for its own sake, and reflected on its human moral basis.

Kruger telegraphed that " this annexation cannot be regarded by this government otherwise than as directed against this republic. They must therefore regard it as an unfriendly act, against which they hereby protest."

Buchanan's severe epigram, perhaps the only unfriendly words in the flood of contemporary praise, may be explained as a protest against the compromise which Major appeared to offer rather than as a personal attack on his teacher.

Not until 1770, after O'Reilly had established Spanish rule by force at New Orleans, did a Spanish officer at St Louis take actual possession of the upper country; another on the ground, in 1768-1769, had forborne to assert his powers in the face of the unfriendly attitude of the inhabitants.

P. Schreiner was one, and a protest was then sent by Mr Chamberlain stating that the government would regard the closing of the drifts as a breach of the London Convention, and as an unfriendly action calling for the gravest remonstrance.

But the relations between the two sects were not unfriendly previously to the Russian campaigns in Persia and Turkey.

He was indeed bound by consistency to withstand what his own government, by the words of Sir Edward Grey, had declared would be an unfriendly act on the part of France.

His later years were clouded with many sorrows and disappointments; his relations with Governor Joseph Dudley were unfriendly; he lost much of his former prestige in the Church - his own congregation dwindled - and in the college; his uncle John Cotton was expelled from his 8 8 4 _ Mather, Increase charge in the Plymouth Church; his son Increase turned out a ne'er-do-well; four of his children and his second wife died in November 1713; his wife's brothers and the husbands of his sisters were ungodly and violent men; his favourite daughter Katherine, who "understood Latin and read Hebrew fluently," died in 1716; his third wife went mad in 1719; his personal enemies circulated incredible scandals about him; and in 1724-1725 he saw a Liberal once more preferred to him as a new president of Harvard.

By this declaration Servia abandoned all its demands as against Austria-Hungary, while the Austro-Hungarian foreign minister made simultaneously a public declaration that the Dual Monarchy harboured no unfriendly designs against Servia.

In 1858, when the Supreme Court, after the vote of Kansas against the Lecompton constitution, had decided that Kansas was a " slave " territory, thus quashing Douglas's theory of " popular sovereignty," he engaged in Illinois in a close and very exciting contest for the senatorship with Abraham Lincoln, the Republican candidate, whom he met in a series of debates (at Ottawa, Freeport, Jonesboro, Charleston, Galesburg, Quincy and Alton), in one of which, that at Freeport, Douglas was led to declare that any territory, by " unfriendly 1 Her death in 1853 was a great blow to him and embittered him.

The French chose to view this as an unfriendly demonstration, and there was some talk of getting up a counter-ball in Paris, the duke of Orleans to figure as William the Conqueror.