At first the townspeople are bitterly hostile to Frieda and Robert is forced to give up his job as a schoolteacher.

Hundreds of thousands of troops face one another along the border between two bitterly hostile neighbours.

For a brief moment, Maurice's face was bitterly hostile.

Then we would live in fear that nuclear weapons capability could be transferred to bitterly hostile nations.

There was a subtle change in the bitterly hostile atmosphere.

Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land.

The alternative was to cover thousands of miles across country, over a bitterly hostile land through bitterly hostile people.

He was a lawyer by profession, but had taken up politics and was bitterly hostile to the British rule in India.

And he said our troops would be occupiers in a bitterly hostile land.

Is "victory" at all costs worth a bitterly hostile Russia?