Sentence examples for bellicose move from inspiring English sources

Judge Pickering's renomination is a particularly bellicose move, because the Senate has already denied him confirmation once.

Even as Uber tries to soften its image with humanizing profiles of its bellicose founder and Lyft moves to a more slender understated pink mustache, they represent two very different approaches to a ride-hailing future.

The newly bellicose mood on Capitol Hill materialized almost overnight.

The science of paleontology has moved far beyond those bellicose, backward days, but dinosaur hunting has retained its old-time competitive drive.

At Whittier College in California, for example, bellicose sentiments are muted: Go Poets, go Move that ball right down the field.

So Whitehall's move - and Gordon Brown's bellicose tone - smack of unnecessary British unilateralism at a time when international cooperation is vital.

For opponents, the administration's bellicose unilateralism and dishonest misuse of 9/11 to move against a state that bore no connection to that attack suggested that the war's real purpose was to establish American hegemony in the Persian Gulf.

The North's proposal indicated that it was moving toward negotiations after months of bellicose language, including threats to launch nuclear strikes at the United States and South Korea.

On one occasion, Mohamed instructed the targets to talk in a bellicose fashion if they wanted to persuade David to move forward.

If you ask what it means to be European today, one of the most prevalent answers still goes something like this: to move beyond the power politics of sovereign, competing, bellicose nation-states that brought Europe to ruins in 1945.

Dramaturgically, the program was all too topical, moving from BWV 149 ("We sing a victory with joy") to the rather ominous, bellicose BWV 19 ("There arose a war").