Buss met from the beginning a hostile majority, and he was reproached in open Parliament with errors and false steps of his youth.

He knows Israeli control of the valley is his protection against Palestinians, the hostile majority of his country.

He faced hostile majorities in both houses of the legislature throughout his years as governor.

But suppose Mr. Bush does manage to squeak back into office, there to face a hostile Democratic majority in Congress.

If it is admitted, the Suffragists have not merely to awaken an indifferent, but to convert a hostile majority.

But the member of a minority traditionally domiciled among a hostile majority was an unlikely candidate for conversion.

Ford defended his meek actions during the crisis, saying hated minorities are never safe from hostile majorities.

But if past defeats for Presidents facing hostile majorities in Congress are a guide, any such damage will be short-lived.

For the first time under the Fifth Republic, the President was forced to "cohabit" with a hostile parliamentary majority and cabinet.

Though faced with a hostile majority in Parliament, Pitt was able to solidify his position in a few months' time.