But Agassi, with a menacing black bandana protecting his pate from the unfriendly elements, wasn't smiling as he got off to an uncomfortable 0-2 start.

Does the Administration plan to go to war with Iran, risking heavy casualties, terrorism against American installations abroad and U.S. cities and the dispatch of Soviet forces into northern Iran to prevent that area from falling into the hands of unfriendly elements - all to help Kuwait pursue its present policy?

The storyline of this book is rather uncharacteristic because, instead of fighting terrorists and enemy names, Helm and Mac work together to bring down unfriendly elements from within their own government, in particular a man who is threatening Mac's authority.

Growing up trans in suburban Maryland in the nineteen-seventies, Bond encountered unfriendly elements (bullies, parents who denied V's sexuality), but early discovered life's simple pleasures: in first grade, V began wearing Revlon Iced Watermelon lipstick, V's mother's color of choice.

Hoare's memoir however is not completely frank about his deployment of an array of bluff, leaks, bribery and subterfuge to disrupt unfriendly elements in Franco's regime, and the operations of the German Embassy; but they were remembered fondly by his team.

Lord Glenarvan had been vanquished in the strife; and the courageous searchers, whom the unfriendly elements of the Pampas had been unable to check, had been conquered on the Australian shore by the perversity of man.

A foul canard put about by unfriendly elements who are trying to prevent me from getting a nice safe job behind a desk in London.

However in the mid-1950s "the IRD had sixty staff, permanent and contract, in the Soviet section" and elements unfriendly to his position attempted to discredit Goldberg and establish a harder BBC line:

At this second, the Shaddill are out of commission, and unfriendly elements of the navy are far away... so we've got a window of opportunity to call for help from someone else.