11.   The meeting comes at a time of increasing public hostility towards Albanian immigrants, often blamed for a perceived rise in the crime rate.

12.   U.S. sanctions imposed on three Russian companies that sold arms to Syria are indicative of increasing American hostility toward Arabs, a government newspaper said Monday.

13.   Diamacoune, who has signed peace pacts with the government of President Abdoulaye Wade, faces increasing hostility from hardline dissidents within the MFDC.

14.   White police in Soweto retaliated Thursday by claiming they were facing increasing hostility, both verbal and physical, from their black colleagues.

15.   The National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium attributed the rise mainly to better reporting by law enforcement agencies, but it also cited increasing hostility toward immigrants.