Sentence examples for belligerent the from inspiring English sources

Yet, if the military trappings are too belligerent, the non-military side of the intervention has been too weak.

I thought Leicester were good today, pretty belligerent, the pressure did not come off us at any stage".

The more personal and belligerent the contest becomes, of course, the greater the potential damage to the eventual victor.

For example, in 1941, before it officially became a belligerent, the United States seized German, Italian, Danish, and French ships lying idle in American waters and also froze the assets of the Axis powers.

Mr. McNamara was also at Kennedy's side during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, when the president had to choose between answering two conflicting messages from the Soviets, one belligerent, the other more conciliatory.

If such goods were to be transshipped to another belligerent (the enemy) at some point in the voyage, the state invoking the doctrine could claim that, regardless of the period of neutral possession, the voyage was continuously geared toward trade with the belligerent power.

In Queenan's account of his life, the belligerent priests, the poverty, the girls and the music all pale beside the rages of his drunken, violently abusive father.

The sooner the United Nations recognizes Russia as a belligerent nation, the better for the United States and the world".

During the Siege of Sarajevo, Igman became part of the buffer zone between the belligerents of the Bosnian government and the Army of Republika Srpska.

These moves were taken seriously by the rival resident ambassadors, but were ended in June 1553 by the belligerents, the continuance of war being more advantageous to them.

As the title suggests, the column was belligerent from the start.