Sentence examples for belligerent speech from inspiring English sources

First, there is Pompeo, whose belligerent speech after the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran deal was a thinly veiled attempt to set the stage for military action.

"Today's developments have been very negative: President Erdogan made a belligerent speech with no reference to the need of a change of course.

Thus, in contradiction to the recent findings of the IAEA and the agreed work plan with Iran, George Bush, in his belligerent speech of August 28, raising the prospect of US war against Iran, falsely warned that Iran's nuclear programme was spreading the "shadow of nuclear holocaust" over the Middle East.

JERUSALEM — In a blunt and belligerent speech on his first day as Israel's new foreign minister, the hawkish nationalist Avigdor Lieberman declared Wednesday that "those who wish for peace should prepare for war" and that Israel was not obligated by understandings on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict reached at an American-sponsored peace conference in late 2007.

Adams, in introducing the matter to Congress, made a somewhat belligerent speech in which he called for a vigorous defense of the nation's neutrality and expansion of the United States Navy, but stopped short of calling for war against France.

In Washington, D.C., a group of senators including Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. complained of Kenney's "belligerent" speech, and previous ones in the same vein by Symington, saying that matters of foreign policy should be left to the president and the secretary of state, not to leaders of the United States Air Force (USAF).

In belligerent speeches, he accused his opponents of seeking violence, ordered the police to disperse student demonstrations with tear-gas and said anyone who did not vote for him was guilty of treason.

The end of Iraq's isolation is especially worrisome, given that even before the outbreak of violence more than a month ago, Mr. Hussein had made a series of startlingly belligerent speeches, as he did before the invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

President Maduro, in his rambling, belligerent speeches on radio and TV, frequently accuses Polar's owner, Lorenzo Mendoza, of waging economic war on Venezuela and on his government by deliberately creating shortages.

She delivered belligerent speeches against China, and scared Secretary of Defense Robert Gates by overruling his opposition through her White House contracts to overthrow the Libyan dictator.

It's no mean feat, especially since in capital after capital, Tillerson has to finesse between supporting President Trump's policies and repairing the damage from the president's harsh tweets, belligerent speeches and vulgarities about America's allies and adversaries alike.