Sentence examples for bellicose approach from inspiring English sources

Gen. Flynn has advocated a much more bellicose approach to foreign policy than the Obama administration.

Some argue that a heavy-handed and bellicose approach from the police and army will intensify the threat in Nigeria's north.

China's bellicose approach to Taiwan as it embraced democracy in the 1990s achieved the opposite: its sabre-rattling boosted support for Taiwan's pro-independence opposition.The wonders of democracyThose who accept bribes should do so warily.

Trump's increasingly bellicose approach towards Iran, first by imposing a blanket travel ban, then putting Tehran "on notice" after a ballistic missile test, as well as by reported plans of new sanctions, carries two subtle messages.

In 1984, challenging the Reagan administration's bellicose approach to international affairs, SANE and the Freeze endorsed Walter Mondale.

Trump justifies his bellicose approach as he sees Iran as the culprit who is raging a proxy war against the Saudis and benefiting from continued instability.

With Trump having already tapped for his national-security team two vocal critics of Obama's efforts against ISIS — retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn and retired General James (Mad Dog) Mattis — the common assumption in Washington is that the Obama doctrine is destined for the history books, and that it will be replaced by a much more bellicose, combative approach.

The bellicose, unilateral approach to democracy promotion in the region of the Bush administration, which critics found easy to ridicule by pointing to the chaos and carnage in Iraq as U.S. democracy promotion at work, did much to give the activity a bad name.

I don't see how any bellicose militaristic approach can keep the lid on this Pandora's Box: Iran sees itself besieged on two fronts -- by the U.S, and harangued by the international community in the form of embargo and sanctions.

Does the increasingly bellicose and confrontational approach of the West actually increase Tehran's desire for nuclear deterrence?

While the Selb festival doesn't approach the Middle Ages with quite the bellicose rigor of other German fests like the Kaltenberg Knights Tournament, purportedly the world's largest jousting event, there will, of course, be battles taking place on land and water, by joust, sickle and powder keg.