Day after day, in military exercises, scenarios, games of espionage and hostile rhetoric, both sides behaved as though the second world war had never ended.

In his book "Perestroika," delivered to the printers several months ago, Mikhail Gorbachev complained about the "hostile rhetoric" from Washington, which "also ruins relations."

Behind the hostile rhetoric of the early public-interest movement, for example, Mr. Vogel finds a naive faith in the omnipotence of corporate America.

The language used Tuesday was a far cry from the hostile rhetoric that preceded, and followed, their last meeting, at Agra in 2001.

This relentlessly hostile rhetoric has become standard issue on the right.

Specifically, it notes that "hostile rhetoric" by political and religious leaders has not increased.

And for many whites, the government's increasingly hostile racial rhetoric and support of the recent spate of land invasions became increasingly intolerable.

Mr. Domenici said he decided to tell his story when the hostile rhetoric about illegal immigrants started to boil.

LDS claims to rights to Missouri were countered back and forth with hostile rhetoric from non-Mormon news sources and politicians.