Though the board's decisions are widely accepted, its members' often bellicose declarations make the Americans reluctant to treat it as a voice of the Sunnis.
If we think back to election night, which, granted, seems like a lifetime ago now, Malcolm Turnbull emerged with bellicose declarations of victory but the body language looked like he'd lost.
President Omar al-Bashir's bellicose declarations about liberating South Sudan from the "insects" who govern it stole the headlines.
Martial scenes and bellicose declarations from the king and others have replaced the normally drab fare of state television.
North Korea threatened on Monday to shoot down U.S. military planes, even if they are not in the country's airspace, arguing that President Trump's bellicose tweets amount to a declaration of war.
As Berwick, he wrote a long manifesto entitled "2083: A European Declaration of Independence", full of bellicose talk, cobbled together from his favourite websites, about the need to save western civilisation from being conquered by Islam.
His declaration comes after a week of bellicose statements by Russian officials about NATO.
"The regime's nuclear declaration is the latest reminder that, despite Mr. Bush's once bellicose rhetoric, engaging our enemies can pay dividends," Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, whom Mr. Bush defeated in the 2004 presidential election, said in a statement after the declaration on Thursday.
In 2005, the year Toby Keith turned 44, he released "As Good as I Once Was," one of his most bellicose and smarmy singles in a career that specialized in them, and a declaration of potency in the face of encroaching middle age.
The North has warned, in characteristically bellicose terms, that it would regard any discussion of its nuclear program at the meeting as a "declaration of war".
