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
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
Garnet darted up the steps; but Catesby lingered to make fast the door, and thus oppose some obstacle to the hostile party.
From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by Ainsworth, William Harrison
By this time we had finished most of our preparations, and were busily engaged in constructing a mine at the extremity of the wharf, for the benefit of any hostile party that might land there.
From Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61 by Doubleday, Abner
