Sentence examples for belligerent over from inspiring English sources

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But it got out of hand, said Vice Principal John Silveira, once the girl seemed unrepentant in the eyes of school officials and the victim's mother, once Ms. Harris became "belligerent" over the suspension and once the mother of the victim went to the police out of a concern about possible retaliation.

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All the hostility prompted Ms. Brewer to disclose her own experience with what she termed a "belligerent and over-reactive officer" on June 26, during the Gay Pride Parade.

"Having the comments at the bottom of the page — people feel that; they feel they're not as legitimate a voice as the original post," says Travis Nichols, who moderated a Poetry Foundation blog for several years and drew on this experience to write a novel, "The More You Ignore Me," whose belligerent narrator takes over a cooking Web site with a venomous lament.

These data enable detailed analysis of patterns of perpetrator/victim and belligerent groups over time, and show how violence changed over the four years following the height of armed conflict in 2003 05.

Locked in disagreement with the United States over spying and cautiously engaging a newly belligerent Russia over the crisis in Ukraine, Germany is weighing its role in the world.

The mission, and Russia's increasingly belligerent rhetoric over the Arctic, caused concern not just in Washington but also in other countries with claims to the region.

According to a report about the incident released recently, the co-pilot became increasingly disoriented and belligerent somewhere over the Atlantic and had to be sedated and forcibly removed from the cockpit.

The foreign secretary, William Hague, has warned Israel against allowing the Middle East peace process to become a casualty of turmoil in the region, urging it to tone down "belligerent language" over protests in Egypt and other neighbouring states.

Mr Cameron hints that he would spend a little bit more of the fruits of growth on public services and a bit less on tax cuts, he would be less inclined to strike belligerent poses over Europe, although he is just as hostile to the euro, and would be more liberal on some social issues.

Putin made a number of belligerent statements over the past week before unveiling his peace proposal on Wednesday and discussing it by telephone with Poroshenko.

A mix of belligerent posturing and over-reaction to provocation was heavily driven by the Pentagon's military-industrial complex, with Nato trotting along behind.

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