The dust up with Mr. Tillerson was remarkable even in Mr. Trump's world of belligerent confrontations.
"It means belligerent, argumentative, confrontational".
I had also once been compelled to participate in a physical confrontation with a belligerent driver.
For the act arose from a genuine constitutional crisis — a confrontation between a belligerent president and a cautious Congress over whether generals should follow the law or their increasingly unhinged commander in chief.
Belligerent conduct by extremist settlers, confrontations in occupied East Jerusalem, and travel and visa restrictions, along with sporadic violence by both individual and organized Palestinian extremists, undermine the viability and credibility of negotiators and negotiations.
These commentators share another common view: long-standing support for a more belligerent posture toward Iran, including military confrontation, regime change, or both.
Nothing in the current state of the world merits a superpower confrontation, only the narcissistic and belligerent personalities of certain world leaders.
While it is not clear yet what actually happened, it appears to me that Professor Gates was belligerent from the get-go, escalated the confrontation and injected race into the discussion before he knew the facts.
Over the last few days, Mr. Mugabe mixed tentative steps toward a resolution with belligerent statements that appeared likely to encourage more confrontation.
"We don't have any desire for wars or confrontation," the Libyan leader said, shifting tacks somewhat from his belligerent reaction last week after a special Scottish court found a Libyan intelligence agent, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, guilty in the 1988 bombing of a Pan Am jumbo jet over Lockeribe, Scotland, which killed 270 people.
Sabato said that the confrontation over taxes sets the tone for Obama's dealings with the Republican-controlled House of Representanincreasinglyincreasingly belligerent Republican leadership in the Senate next year.
