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
When they had the opportunity, they refused to disarm the hostile party by concession, and when they at last had the will, the opportunity was taken away.
From A Short History of English Liberalism by Blease, Walter Lyon
With the caution habitual in a hill-man he crept down warily; if he should blunder on a hostile party the chances of saving the village and warning his father would be small indeed.
From Barclay of the Guides by Strang, Herbert
Jemmy further declares that the hostile party encountered in Whale-Boat Sound must have been Ailikoleeps; though Eleparu had denied it.
From The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure by Reid, Mayne
