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
That the banner of the church floated over the one camp, while the standard of the empire rallied to itself the hostile party, was a matter of comparatively superficial moment.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
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
Katla's maidens, still upon the watch, announced to her the return of the hostile party, their number augmented by one who wore a blue mantle.
From Folk-Lore and Legends; Scandinavian by Various
