Sentence examples similar to a belligerent tactic from inspiring English sources

Plutarch seems to believe that Pericles and the Athenians incited the war, scrambling to implement their belligerent tactics "with a sort of arrogance and a love of strife".

In each incident, the true instigators were the police -- either through a belligerent buy-and-bust operation or, in Gary's case, the use of aggressive tactics on a man who witnesses say posed no threat.

DOENITZ: No doubt a belligerent one.

ROG-O-MATIC: A Belligerent Expert System.

Or as a belligerent riverdancing alcoholic.

And there is the shadow cast by a belligerent Russia.

Gove says Twigg was the one taking a belligerent tone.

He's a belligerent batsman but not exactly quick-fire.

Elsewhere," turns up as a belligerent doctor in Baltimore.

Janeane Garofalo became a belligerent poster girl for anti-cool.

In return, his rivals treated Trump like a belligerent child.