hostile party
Example Sentences
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Presidents had had to contend with at least one branch of Congress controlled by a hostile party.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
As soon as they made this discovery, they slackened their pace, being apprehensive, from the shouts and other sounds that reached them, that some hostile party might be among the assemblage.
From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by Ainsworth, William Harrison
Thirteen of Amathla’s people immediately escaped to Fort King, while the others, deterred by their fears, remained until the return of the principal band, when they joined the hostile party.
From Diary in America, Series Two by Marryat, Frederick
A shaggy-headed monster, apparently the leader of the hostile party, again addressed Conolly in his own language.
From The King's Own by Marryat, Frederick
