Relationships with civilian populations are influenced by whether the guerrillas operate among a hostile or friendly population.

"The question is whether or not you can allow a potentially hostile population to retain those energy weapons," Draven pushed.

The British army encountered an extremely hostile population, prepared to resist to the degree that even women, children and slaves voluntarily participated in the defense.

He was outnumbered, outgunned and operating in territory with a hostile population.

They were a few thousands, swallowed up in an ocean of hostile populations.

The settlers also had to contend with frequently hostile native populations.

How large a force would we need to suppress a hostile population?

Further militarization of the state, he said, will only create "an actively hostile population."

The 1967 war brought Israel both triumph and a hostile Palestinian population on contested territory.

She recognizes that one of the most dangerous aspects for the marines - policing a potentially hostile population - is just beginning.