Sentence examples for belligerent relations from inspiring English sources

When this happens, something of considerable legal significance does occur: the law of armed conflict begins to govern belligerent relations between the states.

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.

My analysis of another text from this corpus shows that textural relations allow the belligerents enacting the violence which defines this event as 'war' to be dissociated, in one and the same text, from the acts of violence they are perpetrating (Lukin 2014b).

Nixon figured that any sign of a thaw in U.S.-China relations would rattle the belligerent Soviets, who worried the Chinese leadership as well.

Disappointed by North Korea's belligerent response to offers of better relations in future, and concerned at the effect the crisis is having on South Korea's economy, Mr Yoon now endorses a multilateral approach, albeit one that would involve direct talks between America and North Korea too.

The most significant foreign policy issue to confront Moon will be relations with the ever-belligerent Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), and the US deployment to South Korea of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense THAADD) anti-ballistic missile system, decided on by the Obama administration in July 2016.

It's been accepted for decades within the intelligence and interrogation communities that torture simply doesn't work and mostly leads to false confessions; strained relations with allies; prisoners made belligerent, insane, or useless; and victims' families, friends, and sympathizers turned into sworn enemies.

Poroshenko will also need to steer a delicate geopolitical path, moving the country towards closer ties with Europe demanded by the Euromaidan protests that swept out the government of Viktor Yanukovych in February, while improving relations with Russia, Ukraine's often belligerent neighbour.

Konstantin Zatulin, a Duma deputy handling relations with former Soviet republics, is more belligerent.

But the Iranians have tricky relations with Muqtada al-Sadr, the most belligerent of Iraq's Shia leaders, and shrink from picking a sectarian fight with Sunni fanatics.

Without an understanding of how his behavior flows from his unyielding ideas about what Israel must do to survive as a Jewish democracy in a hostile Middle East, Sharon's military tactics appear merely gratuitously violent, his relations with Army superiors incorrigibly insubordinate and his political style destructively belligerent.