hostile takeover

Both had been accused of acts hostile to the North Korean state.

He obeyed without remark, though with an unsteady voice, as he uttered communications he knew were so hostile to her expectation.

We met like hostile bulls, and wonder not that we should plunge at once upon each other's horns!

He was a good judge of men, that eagle-faced major; he knew that the slightest move with hostile intent would mean a smoking gun.

Then affairs almost reached the point where the province was in hostile array, one side against another.

She knew that Alessandro had no knife, and had gone forward with no hostile intent; but she knew nothing beyond that.