Pressurized chambers protect the specimens from the hostile surroundings.

For many Australians the desert which covers much of their country means a vast emptiness solitude and the struggle to survive in hostile surroundings.

They agonised over how their children would feel in unfamiliar and hostile surroundings as they, too, were interrogated.

It kind of inspires you more to be in hostile surroundings.

It enacted danger pay for those diplomats who serve in dangerous and hostile surroundings along with other administrative changes.

Had the Horizon been forced down in more hostile surroundings, the outcome of their just-concluded adventure might have turned out far less happily.

Seung Ha had to deal with the pain of betrayal he felt by his mother leaving him, as well as the new hostile surroundings.

"The time lost will be easily made up in more hostile surroundings."

He lay awhile taking stock of their hostile surroundings.

But the Irish are facing a crisis here and now, in hostile surroundings against a team that does not provide much of a margin for error.