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hostility

[ho-stil-i-tee] / hɒˈstɪl ɪ ti /


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“Admiration was quickly curdling into hostility,” he writes.

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“We can do a lot, including opening the sea lanes and keeping them clear, but we will not do that while hostilities are ongoing,” he said.

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Short-term inflation expectations in the BCB survey have moved higher since hostilities began.

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But will coal stay strong when hostilities end?

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The agency’s mindset remains: evidentiary maximalism detached from clinical reality, indifference to patient urgency, and hostility to the flexibility Congress intended.

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