1.  The measure came amidst allegations by the government that neighbouring states hostile to Iraq had flooded the country with forged banknotes to destabilize the economy.

2.  Another threat comes from North Korea, a hostile state that suffers from a deep inferiority complex as it increasingly relies on foreign aid.

3.  All in all, a sound strategic framework for dealing with the risks that international terrorism and hostile states pose to American lives and interests.

4.  Hostile states would be expected to take countermeasures, of course, but these could quickly be nullified, the report implies, by superior U.S. technology.

5.  If it is infeasible for hostile states to counter the United States in conventional combat, it is even more daunting for smaller groups such as terrorists.

6.  Perhaps some of them are acting under principled personal compulsion, resisting the pressure of a hostile state.

7.  Savir replied by drawing a little Israel surrounded by concentric circles of hostile Arab states.

8.  Such groups give hostile states the chance to hit at the west without exposing their hands directly and thereby suffering retaliation.

9.  The first was that the notion of Israel living permanently in a sea of bitterly hostile Arab states was intolerable.

10.  The industry is also dealing with states hostile to the acquisition of non-profit hospitals by for-profit companies.