It looked to residents as if the sparrow's "eternal hostility to the codling moth" was just the ticket to saving the territory's fruit crop.

Quoting Thomas Jefferson, he swore "eternal hostility" to despots, whether "in Baghdad or Havana."

Figo came anyway, risking Barcelona fans' eternal hostility for a big pay raise.

The Turkish Government should reconsider its threats of eternal hostility toward Italy.

"It faces the danger of earning Turkey's eternal hostility."

Of the sparrows, the writer added, "Their other quality is their eternal hostility to the coddling moth, for which reason they have been especially imported.

After decades in which they seemed to be frozen in eternal hostility, Israel and its neighbors are edging toward peaceful relations.

The remark is similar to Thomas Jefferson's swearing to God "eternal hostility to every form of tyranny over the mind of man".

His hagiographers have depicted him as a man of perfect marble, swearing, in one historian's words, "eternal hostility to every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

The prospect of living in eternal hostility with such a powerful neighbor no longer appeals to Mr. Ortega.