Sentence examples for bellicose strategy from inspiring English sources

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"It's saying to Pakistan, 'O.K., you may want to use a bellicose strategy against us, but you're broke and we're not.

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Its bellicose legal strategy, run by a close associate of Mr Purcell's, recently yielded a $1.5 billion court defeat that had far less to do with the merits of the claims against the bank than with a judge's perception that its defence hinged on burying evidence.None of this might have mattered.

The problem is that, just as in other policy areas, Trump threatens to undermine his own counterterrorism strategy with his bellicose mode of communication.

For all its bellicose rhetoric, Mr Obama's plan is more of a strategy to contain Isis rather than eradicate it – and he may find that even this is difficult to do.

The latest threat to close down Kaesong came amid a torrent of bellicose statements by the North in recent days, widely seen as a strategy to increase pressure on South Korea and the United States to soften their policies on the North.

While Hillary Clinton echoed the same talking points (in a slightly less bellicose tone) as Trump, Carson, and Republicans, Sanders focused on long term strategy.

Obama made no effort to couch his bellicose policy on Afghanistan, writing in a New York Times op-ed column: "As President I would pursue a new strategy and begin by providing at least two additional combat brigades to support our effort in Afghanistan".

Yesterday's bellicose language from the Revolutionary Guards, who are effectively under the Ayatollah's control, only served to spell out the strategy.

Yet in Russia's new confrontation with the west, the Kremlin's strategy is to exploit western weaknesses and confusion as much as it is geared towards showing a bellicose face, whether in Ukraine, Syria or cyberspace.

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