hostile party
Example Sentences
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This threat was implicitly raised last week by Iraqi Foreign Minister Saadoun Hammadi, who warned that Iraq would consider the U.S. a "hostile party in the gulf conflict" if it sent supplies to Iran.
From Time Magazine Archive
Presidents had had to contend with at least one branch of Congress controlled by a hostile party.
From Time Magazine Archive
Turning to take departure, the young officers again look across the saloon, to learn how the hostile party has disposed itself.
From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Mayne Reid
But, though the flames revealed every object for a considerable distance around them, no traces of the hostile party could be discerned.
From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by William Harrison Ainsworth
He, however, was not one of the hostile party, but was very well-disposed towards Mr. Smith.
From Recollections of Old Liverpool by A Nonagenarian
