Sentence examples for belligerent posture from inspiring English sources

A switch to a more belligerent posture was regarded as the price of his immediate return.

With the supercilious attitude and the belligerent posture of his manipulative media and military boys, if Xi doesn't attack, he loses face -- the world will laugh at him.

In fact, it was Kennedy's more belligerent posture, and not his willingness to compromise, that moved Khrushchev to begin the process of negotiation.

These commentators share another common view: long-standing support for a more belligerent posture toward Iran, including military confrontation, regime change, or both.

For example, if he gave parole to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an oligarch imprisoned without even a pretence at a fair trial, dropped Russia's belligerent posture towards Georgia, began to open up state-run television to alternative voices, and initiated a crackdown on corruption, then it would be right to respond in a friendly fashion.

The uncertainty over the planning coincides with recent hard-line rhetoric from Pyongyang that has led the White House to fear that Kim, after a burst of diplomatic outreach, is reverting to the regime's usual antagonistic and belligerent posture to gain leverage in the talks or to lay the groundwork to pull out.

Nonetheless, the United States, which is still the most powerful nation in the Pacific, should resist the temptation of belligerent posturing when it isn't strictly necessary.

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.

They say it is a short-term ploy meant to keep North Korea's weapons programs and its often belligerent posturing from becoming campaign issues in important legislative elections in South Korea in April, and in the United States presidential election in November.

Scenes fly by: a haka dance of belligerent posturing; locker-room banter that shows its comedy and callousness as well as the vulnerability it covers; an increasingly upsetting litany of the everyday sexism the women have experienced; a brashly comic quiz show with a man-hater, a control-freak and a mansplainer as contestants.

The center's mission was to "train volunteers in revolutionary warfare from all over the world," according to a 1999 book by Stephen Ellis of the African Studies Center, in Leiden, the Netherlands, in keeping with Colonel Qaddafi's belligerent anti-Western posture.