Sentence examples similar to belligerent purpose from inspiring English sources

Here's a drama in which a large cast (more than 20) spend much of the time striding on and off with an almost belligerent sense of purpose.

It emphasizes that although law may be manipulated by some belligerents for nefarious purposes, it can still serve to limit human suffering in war.

Contraband, in the laws of war, goods that may not be shipped to a belligerent because they serve a military purpose.

He and the French Prime Minister therefore called on both parties to withdraw ten miles from the Canal Banks on either side, and to agree that an Anglo-French force should temporarily—"I repeat temporarily"—step into that coveted area with the double purpose of holding the belligerents apart and of safeguarding free passage for shipping.

In December 2008, however, because of crack cocaine use and belligerent behavior, she lost housing privileges.

Helpful for recognition purposes is the small, blue-chinned, belligerent Beethoven who looks out from contemporary portraiture, a world away from Max Klinger's muscled and towering godhead carved from multicolored marbles in 1902.

He's belligerent, foul-mouthed and sick-minded, and his favorite all-purpose insult is a homophobic slur.

"[A]n enemy combatant who without uniform comes secretly through the lines for the purpose of waging war by destruction of life or property" is an example of a belligerent who is an "offender against the law of war subject to trial and punishment by a military tribunal".

Whether administered by officers of the army of the belligerent, or by civilians left in office or appointed by him for the purpose, it is the government of and for all the inhabitants, native or foreign, wholly superseding the local law and civil authority except in so far as the same may be permitted by him to subsist.

That decision was based on several important considerations, one of which was that, and I quote, "neither party can reasonably assert that it is actively a belligerent or requires to exercise the right of visit, search and seizure for any legitimate purpose of self-defense". In our opinion, this principle is equally applicable to the Suez Canal and to any waters outside the Canal.

But the aid we will provide will be limited for the purpose of enabling Cambodia to de fend its neutrality and not for the purpose of making it an active belligerent on one side or the other.