1.   It was violation of the ability-to-pay principle that caused much of the public hostility to the poll tax.

2.   There is a lot of public hostility to the tax.

3.   But he still regrets the public hostility toward entertainment.

4.   But LILCO executives apparently recognized that, post-Gloria and post-Shoreham, their chairman was doomed to draw public hostility like a lightning rod.

5.   Circulation quickly soared, but so did public hostility.

6.   For decades, cigarette makers have refused to admit any connection between their product and cancer, even in the face of mounting medical evidence and public hostility.

7.   Isaacson responded that the same poll showed strong public hostility to putting the federal government in charge of the Hanford Reach.

8.   More striking still has been the baying of public hostility.

9.   Muslim groups have also argued that actions by the Bush administration, especially those singling out Muslim immigrants for investigation and detention, have encouraged public hostility toward Islam.

10.   The onslaught against the arts in the Anglophone world that was launched in the Reagan-Thatcher years yielded an unprecedented public hostility to the cultural elite.