41.   Candles, an affordable luxury, allow us to create a peaceful inner sanctum, so unlike the hostile environment outside.

42.   Catering to a generation of athletes and fans who missed out on manners, college athletic departments work hard at creating a hostile environment energized by a frenzied mob.

43.   Climbers have demonstrated, sometimes against scientific predictions, how the body can adapt to survive in hostile environments.

44.   Democrats hastened to blame Bush for creating a hostile global environment where such a thing could occur.

45.   Dr. LeDoux says that emotions are hardwired, biological functions of the nervous system that evolved to help animals survive in hostile environments and procreate.

46.   Each woman contended that the company allowed a sexually hostile environment and that she had been sexually harassed by a manager.

47.   Facing increasingly aggressive prosecutors and operating in a more hostile environment, a fresh generation of media lawyers feels that negotiation does more good than confrontation.

48.   Failing that, the plaintiff must prove an environment so hostile a reasonable person would find it difficult to work.

49.   First, it said, employers always are subject to liability for a hostile environment created by a supervisor over subordinates.

50.   Given the youth of these companies, that can take a while even in an environment less hostile than the current one.