Sentence examples for belligerency from inspiring English sources
noun
The state of being at war or in an armed conflict
He highlighted North Korea's nuclear program, China's territorial and maritime disputes, and Russia's belligerency in the Ukraine as pressing problems for the world to solve, as well as "the poverty and inequality that are a recipe for insecurity".
Whether it works or not, it shows how much the nature of modern belligerency is changing.
He usually accompanies his visits with a condemnation of Japan's past belligerency.
The past six months have brought butchery in Kosovo, belligerency in Iran and Afghanistan, open nuclear rivalry in India and Pakistan, a new outbreak of anti-American terrorism, the apparent determination of North Korea to go out with a bang, and the descent into warfare of a huge swathe of Africa from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean.
A connected museum paints Japan in its wars of 1937-45 as the liberator of Asia, a victim of Western belligerency.
Yet, until 1965, Sukarno was still able to stir the Indonesian masses to near-hysterical belligerency.
In an interview in Ha'aretz, he said he would accept once the hostilities end a Palestinian state on 42% of the territories, "or perhaps a little bit more", in return for a non-belligerency pact of indefinite duration.
Some of this disconnection is already in force: to journey from Bethlehem to Ramallah, a Palestinian has to get through two border crossings.Mr Sharon has couched these projects in terms of "a long-term interim arrangement of non-belligerency".
The most he says he will consider, after the Palestinians have ended their violence, is a non-belligerency agreement based on long-term interim arrangements.
Therefore, it seemed reasonable to take advantage of the Italians' willingness, even eagerness, to pin their hopes of a better role in the peace settlement to the status of co-belligerency now".
The action has a stamping, roaring, mega-belligerency.
