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Hard as it is to imagine, revolutionary Iran continued to cooperate with Israel during much of the 1980s and 1990s despite the mutually bellicose rhetoric out of Tehran and Tel Aviv.
The record producer noted that López appeared to be backing his ambitions with an aggressive string of promotional narcocorridos with lyrics that are becoming increasingly bellicose.
In the aftermath of the Guardian's story on the Real IRA today and the dissident group's bellicose warning to bankers and the banking system, the "oxygen of publicity" argument was resurrected once more.
Though Eastwood's politics have been hard to pin down – in 2012 he gave a bizarre address to an empty chair intended to represent Obama at the Republican National convention – American Sniper is a much more avowedly patriotic, even bellicose , film than his previous Oscars-winners, Unforgiven and Million Dollar Baby; a more reassuring watch in an America spooked by Isis.
Battle lines are drawn and the rhetoric between the two sides is becoming more bellicose by the day.
On other questions, he was always ready to compromise, often sounding far more bellicose in public than his private moderation justified.
They even invite Presbyterian ministers these days to address Sinn Féin delegates when they used to cheer to the rafters of Dublin's Mansion House masked men reading out bellicose statements from the IRA army council not so long ago.
Ever since India alleged, with subsequent corroboration from America and Britain, that Pakistani terrorists carried out last month's mass murder in Mumbai, the country's politicians, generals and fire-breathing journalists have been declaring themselves ready for war if that's what India chooses.India's government, despite huge pressure from its own bellicose media, has been more restrained.
After Ron Paul's retirement, his son praised him for building a unique coalition around fiscal conservatism, personal privacy, liberty, limited government and a less bellicose foreign policy.
Nine years, two nuclear tests and countless acts of bellicose aggression later, it is clear that was not a turning-point for the better.Similarly, the guidelines on implementing the 2002 declaration on the South China Sea are hardly evidence of rapid progress.
If public sentiment had to be judged by the outpourings on the country's numerous Internet bulletin boards, it would appear alarmingly chauvinistic and bellicose.
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The word "bellicose" functions primarily as an adjective , modifying nouns to describe their aggressive or warlike nature. Ludwig AI indicates it is commonly used to characterize rhetoric, policies, or individuals prone to conflict.
Expression frequency: Very common
