Sentence examples for belligerent measure from inspiring English sources

But the Ugandan bill is a particularly harsh and belligerent measure that institutionalizes the harassment of gay people and the violation of their human rights.

In what appears to be an escalation in macho criteria, his sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, stepping up drone strikes in Pakistan, and other belligerent measures, are still not enough to establish Obama's macho credentials.

However, a perceptibly slow and reluctant American investigation triggered an intense neutrality dispute through 1916, aggravated by belligerent preventive measures of the British Far-Eastern fleet on the high seas that threatened the sovereignty of American vessels.

He has defended his stance on the Senate measure, which was approved by a wide margin, by calling the bill unnecessarily belligerent and overbroad.

My original text for accompanying these images was filled with the usual litany of concerns about the gun culture in America; condemnation about the belligerent NRA that continues to mythologize and cloak any attempts at sane gun control as the first measures that will trigger an avalanche of attacks on "freedom".

Or belligerent.

He was intensely belligerent.

Russia is more belligerent.

"Proof, not belligerent assertion.

"It means belligerent, argumentative, confrontational".

Sir Malcolm Rifkind was more belligerent.