Sentence examples for belligerent act from inspiring English sources

Mr. McVadon added that such a dramatically belligerent act could isolate China diplomatically and halt most exports to the United States and other major markets.

Officials from Japan, South Korea and the United States, which had been monitoring for signs of the launching, condemned it as a belligerent act that endangered regional stability — even though it had failed.

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and the South Korean defense minister, Kim Kwan-jin, in effect threatened North Korea with some form of a counterattack if it engaged in another belligerent act, like its shelling of a South Korean island last November.

Diane F. Orentlicher, professor of international law at American University, comments: This provision requires that persons who have committed a belligerent act and who are captured by enemy forces enjoy the protections of P.O.W.'s until their status has been determined by a competent tribunal when there is doubt about their status.

"In the case of the above individual, the board reached the conclusion that there was no evidence to doubt that the person was a civilian status, and there was no evidence to support an assertion that he had committed a belligerent act against coalition forces," said the document, signed by Col. Alan Ecke, the camp commander.

Should any doubt arise as to whether persons, having committed a belligerent act and having fallen into the hands of the enemy, belong to any of the categories enumerated in Article 4, such persons shall enjoy the protection of the present Convention until such time as their status has been determined by a competent tribunal.

"It can create belligerent acts that could help Syria.

This includes any person who has committed belligerent acts or directly supported hostilities in aid of enemy armed forces".

"Under this principle, Turkey, Jordan, Israel, Iraq or Lebanon could respond directly to Syrian belligerent acts, as could their allies, such as NATO and the U.S.," said Phillip Carter, an analyst with the Center for a New American Security in Washington.

In a 22-page opinion, District Judge John D. Bates said that a detainee must have been an actual member of Al Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces, or have directly participated in belligerent acts, to be detained indefinitely.

While he has taken a tougher line than his predecessors toward the government in Pyongyang, he has also stopped short of military action in response to a string of belligerent acts, including the torpedoing of a Navy ship and the shelling of a South Korean island.