Sentence examples for as belligerent from inspiring English sources

He also doesn't like the Nuclear Posture Statement, because it's not as belligerent as it could be, and where would America be without empty belligerence.

Remus is as belligerent as Romulus.

Wales's approach was as belligerent as ever.

HSBC, which owns 73% of Trinkaus, is in any case not selling.Mr Fischer is not as belligerent as he sometimes sounds.

And he looked as belligerent as ever in the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury last month, producing a weight-carrying performance that itself invoked comparisons with Arkle.

The first games of this year's Stanley Cup playoffs may be as belligerent as last year's, but the N.H.L.'s initial response has been far more proactive, and may signal a stricter stance against checks to the head.

The Canadian poet is as softly belligerent ("I'm not quite ready to hang up the boxing gloves...  but I know where the hook is") and droll ("Thanks for not going home, I really appreciate that") as ever.

In 1863, while serving as U.S. attorney for Massachusetts (1861 66), he won before the U.S. Supreme Court the case of the Amy Warwick, securing the right of the Union to blockade southern ports without giving the Confederate states an international status as belligerents.

Talks were suspended after the government refused the ELN's demand for its own demilitarised zone, but these contacts too were never broken off: the two sides have held a number of quiet meetings in Venezuela, despite last month's row between the Colombian and Venezuelan governments over some remarks from Mr Chavez about the guerrillas' status as "belligerents".

Australians have been involved in more conflicts as peacekeepers than as belligerents; however "in comparative international terms, Australia has only been a moderately energetic peacekeeper".

They also altered their story line from having died as belligerents against the Turks to having perished like unarmed helpless lambs.