Sentence examples for belligerent action from inspiring English sources
The White House called on North Korea to "halt its belligerent action".
That may prove tricky if a power struggle in North Korea prompts the country to take belligerent action against the South.
Whether the Security Council should take action would be an awkward question, as doing so could provide North Korea into further belligerent action.
The White House statement, released early Tuesday morning, strongly condemned the North, calling on it to "halt its belligerent action and to fully abide by the terms of the Armistice Agreement," which ended the Korean War in 1953.
But "war" can also refer to the belligerent action of only one side —— for example, the war that Britain fought against Germany, which was a part of World War II.
No contract of marine insurance with an insured person who subsequently became an enemy shall be deemed to cover losses due to belligerent action by the Power of which the insurer was a national or by the allies or associates of such Power.
The union claimed the "belligerent" actions of senior Home Office officials mean the department faces days of industrial action and disruption instead of just a half-day stoppage which hit other parts of Whitehall earlier this month.
"But the belligerent actions that the North Koreans have demonstrated over the past many weeks I don't think provide anybody the confidence that they're even remotely ready to resume in a responsible way those talks".
Containing Iran's belligerent actions abroad should be a high priority for the Trump administration, as well as engaging in arms control to limit Iran's ballistic missile program and supporting ideas of democracy and human rights.
Mr. Trump repeated his warning that if China did not do more, the United States would act on its own to constrain the belligerent actions of North Korea's dictator, Kim Jong-un.
Excessively stringent punitive measures, Lavrov argues, could destabilize North Korea by weakening its economy — leading North Korea into opting for belligerent actions such as its Nov. 28 missile launch; the projectile landed in Japanese waters.
