They were glaring at him in a manner he deemed distinctly hostile.

A takeover is deemed hostile when the target company's management objects to the deal.

Its activities were deemed hostile toward the government and led to the prosecution, exile, imprisonment and even murder of people associated with it.

Judge Hand threatened at the time that if reversed, he might outlaw textbooks he deemed hostile to religion.

The witness will be deemed hostile," says Radovich.

After the 1989 government crackdown in Tiananmen Square, avant-garde art was often banned from being shown here because it was deemed hostile or anti-authoritarian.

As the paper is opposed to the EU it has referred to foreign leaders who it deemed hostile to the UK in unflattering terms.

A security official claimed police found documents deemed hostile to the nation in his apartment, AP reports.

In 1931, United passed a number of economic measures which Labour deemed hostile to workers, and the agreement between the two parties collapsed.

Strangers who approach closer than this may be deemed hostile, belligerent, or sexually motivated.