Canada, gripped as it was in war fever, engaged in a fiercely hostile attack on anything or anyone Austrian and German.

Both are fiercely hostile to the goal of monetary union under the Maastricht Treaty.

He was a typical Soviet petty official, no different from the petty officials of the czarist days: indifferent to his job yet at the same time fiercely hostile to any who dared to challenge his authority.

Julia Jordan, who wrote the musical's book, has increased its drama by departing from the novel: the show's Anna is fiercely hostile to the idea of Sarah's monthlong trial visit.

Exiles who have been fiercely hostile toward Fidel Castro's Government have long dominated political discourse, and those who deviated from the hard line have suffered virulent verbal attacks, ostracism and sometimes violence.

Having fallen from critical and commercial favour, the band had endured some fiercely hostile press, but NME, which had been amongst the most negative, noted of the album: "very listenable, well arranged immaculately played."

Many of those faces are fiercely hostile to the West, and we barely see those here, just glimpses in passing.

Faced with fishermen fiercely hostile to this ban, scientific and environmental experts are sounding the alarm.

Those midterm elections will determine whether Mr. Fox spends the next three years as a lame-duck president confronting a fiercely hostile Congress.

All the strangers' faces, which for eight years had seemed fiercely hostile, every one, now seemed like animated portraits of promise and dazzling possibilities, every one.