1.   Beijing continues to menace Taiwan with missile batteries and hostile rhetoric.

2.   Russian foreign policy remains generally consistent with U.S. interests despite occasional outbursts of hostile rhetoric.

3.   People are seeing the present negotiations, with its shades of hostile rhetoric, more as a political exercise between the Palestinian authorites and the Israeli government.

4.   Although they have recently toned down their hostile rhetoric, uneasiness lingers.

5.   In other film, he engaged in rhetoric hostile to the Austrian democratic system.

6.   In recent months, Syria and Israel have exchanged hostile rhetoric, and fears of a military attack have been voiced on each side.

7.   Nyerere called on the two sides to end their hostile rhetoric and work toward peace.

8.   Street clashes broke out again in the West Bank and Gaza, and both sides maintained their hostile rhetoric.

9.   Syria and Israel have exchanged hostile rhetoric in recent months and raised concerns about military action.

10.   That led to a reduction in hostile rhetoric from both sides.