Unfortunately, a hostile environment or unpleasant co-workers can derail your success in a new job.
Used correctly, it can create a hostile environment for terrorists to operate in and help protect the public.
"We beat a very good basketball team in a hostile environment, " Brown said.
In tech, the abuse of patents and the abundance of patent trolls has created a hostile environment for start-ups and innovators.
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Favoritism can be fairly benign in some situations, but it can also be much more serious and develop into a hostile environment for others.
"We didn't protect our home court like we wanted to and we have to go into a hostile environment and try to get another one, " Smith said.
No one will ever assess all the risks correctly, U.S. diplomats and other Americans will be vulnerable when they operate in a hostile environment, and risk-taking will remain inevitable.
It said the company had created a hostile environment and discriminating conditions of employment for the men, who had learning difficulties and worked at the West Liberty plant under the company's oversight since the 1970s.
Modernism, with its macho ideal of the artist, seems to have provided a particularly hostile environment.
Did the Jets cross the teasing and off-handed comments line to create a hostile work environment for Sainz?
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Project manager Tony Bathmaker said the old bridge had been in place since 1921 in "a pretty hostile environment".
Coming back to a hostile business environment, moreover, will be slow and painful.
Coming back in a hostile business environment will be slow and painful, if ever, and the type of reservoirs under deep water, while enormously prolific, decline very fast.
Last year, Appalachian State University suspended a professor for creating a "hostile environment" after she criticized the university's treatment of sexual-assault cases involving student-athletes and screened a documentary critical of the adult-film industry.
With nowhere to go and nowhere to hide in a hostile work environment, the situation looks increasingly grim for Rudolph until, without warning, the owner of the business personally intervenes in an utterly unexpected manner.
In fact, Hurd urged the firm to let the workers go, because their loud argument could cause another kind of legal problem: A female employee sensitive about sex discrimination could feel that a supervisor who agreed with Rep. Akin was hostile to women, which could open up the employer to a hostile work environment sex discrimination suit.
Is Loranzana the victim of a discriminatory and hostile work environment or an opportunist who is retaliating against a company that terminated her?
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Yet recent events in the financial markets add some weight to Mr Skilling's story though today's credit crunch creates a far more hostile environment that the one Enron faced and nobody is (yet) alleging the sort of fraudulent behaviour on Wall Street that apparently took place at Enron.
The objective is to create a global intelligence and moral environment hostile to terrorism.
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The environment at the Donbass Arena was as hostile as at any A-list international soccer match in recent memory.
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It has been a tough week so far for the major stock market averages, as ratings cuts and the increasingly hostile environment in Washington have cut several rallies short.
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