Sentence examples for belligerent state from inspiring English sources

In no other belligerent state did the decision for war trigger four ministerial resignations.

PARIS — A khaki coat, set off with a mock leopard print scarf, suggests a belligerent state of fashion mind.

Privateer, privately owned armed vessel commissioned by a belligerent state to attack enemy ships, usually vessels of commerce.

Prize, in law, a vessel, aircraft, or goods acquired through capture by a belligerent state, which is subject to condemnation by a prize court.

The "paranoid and belligerent" state he found himself in when drunk posed the risk of him being "stabbed, set upon or killed".

It has come to be recognized that the peacetime powers of expropriation grant adequate authority to seize and requisition property under the territorial jurisdiction of a belligerent state without having recourse to the right of angary.

And in his belligerent state-of-the-nation address on November 5th Mr Medvedev threatened to station short-range missiles in the Kaliningrad region, aiming them at Europe, unless America backed off from its plan to put a missile-defence system into eastern Europe.But the parallels with the cold war are misleading.

7, which related to travel on vessels of belligerent states, was transferred to section 445 of this title.

In the more belligerent states – the US and Britain – habeas corpus, private communication, legal process and even freedom of speech were curtailed or jeopardised.

By the late 15th century the Sengoku daimyo had divided Japan into a series of small, belligerent states as each individual daimyo competed for the control of more territory.

An embargo also may be employed to prohibit exports of arms and other war matériel to belligerent states or to states in rebellion, either in an attempt usually collective to force a cessation of hostilities or in an individual state's effort to preserve its neutrality.