Sentence examples for belligerent powers from inspiring English sources

All the belligerent powers of the First World War executed foreigners deemed to have acted as enemy agents.

It is their duty to abstain from attempts to force Ministers to make disclosures or express opinions which may render it more difficult for them to maintain amicable relations with both belligerent powers.

As Fritz Stern, a German-American historian, put it, the conflict was "the first calamity of the 20th century, the calamity from which all other calamities sprang .That still does not explain why interest in what caused the war and how it was fought is so much fiercer in Britain than in any of the four other main belligerent powers.

But the de facto ban on such weapons is unlikely to survive a proliferation of them among the small (and more belligerent) powers.

Prisoner of war (POW), any person captured or interned by a belligerent power during war.

From Congo, Rwanda is seen as a belligerent power plundering its wealth.

Mr. Saakashvili, for his part, describes today's Russia as a belligerent power ruthlessly pressing at its borders, implacably hostile to democratic neighbors like Georgia and Ukraine.

Knowing it all Fantastic Mr Dahl Making life easier Power and glory in paint ReprintsYet for all its modernity, the fighting was also a "holy war" for each belligerent power.

This seems to be the first war of modern times in which the leaders of a large belligerent power agree that there is no glory in it for any of them.

If such goods were to be transshipped to another belligerent (the enemy) at some point in the voyage, the state invoking the doctrine could claim that, regardless of the period of neutral possession, the voyage was continuously geared toward trade with the belligerent power.

Midway between Bracknell and Windsor, standing shoulder to shoulder with the world's oppressed, voicing our hatred of the belligerent power of the United States and its puppet nations in the NATO alliance, we were bathed in personal glory: Then raise the scarlet standard high!