Sentence examples for belligerent relationship from inspiring English sources

November's six-month deal between Washington and the new government of Hassan Rouhani in Tehran represented an astonishing turnaround in an increasingly belligerent relationship.

Charges of perfidy became more formulaic after the French and the English settled into a less belligerent relationship later in the 19th century, partly because "perfidious" itself was becoming an old-fashioned and slightly comic word.

Like Mr Blunkett, Mr Clarke enjoys an occasionally belligerent relationship with the chancellor, Gordon Brown, and sees himself as a rival for the leadership when Tony Blair packs his bags in a few years' time.Mr Clarke is succeeded at the education department by Ruth Kelly, a mother of four young children who is the fastest-rising of Labour ministers under 40 years old.

As Yuri performs the ritual, he summons Kikuramikami no Hime, a Tayutai goddess who explains to him the belligerent relationship between humans and Tayutai; Kikuramikami then incarnates as a young girl, Mashiro, in hopes of maintaining a mutual relationship with humans.

Having belligerent in-laws and poor family relationships are identified risk factors for CPMD in other LAMI countries [ 1].

That the relationship between the two sides is turning more belligerent is not terribly surprising.

No mention in the fine print, though, of supercilious flying waitresses or hostile counter clerks or belligerent, drunken seatmates or the complex nature of the hostage-kidnapper relationship that begins once that airplane door is closed.

But, of all my uncle's eccentric and belligerent characteristics, the one that stood out the most for me was his love-hate relationship with the West.

As Mr. Gill sees it, much of the bitterness that animates trans-Atlantic relationships (Europeans, he says, patronize America "for being a big, dumb, fat, belligerent child") can be traced back to this dynamic.

Beijing this week announced a more belligerent policy toward Taiwan, a development that made it harder for the administration to win congressional approval of a permanent trading relationship with China.

Or belligerent.