No living creature could exist in this hostile climate.

Yet between them, these two worthy causes have helped to generate a hostile climate for architecture, the most public of all arts.

This was eventually ruled out due to the island's hostile climate and remote location.

The 1970s and 1980s were an altogether more hostile political and economic climate for organized labor.

He also said the hostile international climate had hampered efforts to meet the external representatives abroad.

One thing seems clear: holding elections in such a hostile climate could be very unpleasant.

The climate we're in right now is a very hostile climate for something like that.

And it is capitalism that may explain growing visibility in a hostile political climate.

"Our tax policies have created an environment that is a hostile climate for business."