Sentence examples for for the warlike from inspiring English sources

Every sailor enforcing a blockade knows the term of art for the warlike act of stopping a ship suspected of carrying contraband: board and search.

As might be expected of a theory adapted 650 years ago from the ideas of Thomas Aquinas intended to give spiritual cover for the warlike ambitions of medieval princes, it is pretty malleable.For example, one of those conditions is that the war must be sanctioned by a proper authority.

It also recognizes the responsibility for the warlike acts of any of its citizens or agents.

They made much of the warlike passages in the Bible.

For this reason "the warlike, brave, and active people touch immediately upon those who are indolent, effeminate and timorous; the one must, therefore, conquer, and the other be conquered" (SL 17.3).

After its discovery, Grenada was dominated for 150 years by the warlike Carib Indians, who had earlier killed off the more peaceful Arawak.

After Europeans first encountered it, Grenada was dominated for 150 years by the warlike Carib people, who had earlier killed off the more peaceful Arawak.

Tlaloc had been one of the main deities of the agricultural tribes of central Mexico for many centuries, until the warlike northern tribes invaded that part of the country, bringing with them the astral cults of the sun (Huitzilopochtli) and the starry night sky (Tezcatlipoca).

Let the consular fasces of Romulus open a third year, and for the third time let the warlike procession accompany thy curule litter.

Vanir, in Norse mythology, race of gods responsible for wealth, fertility, and commerce and subordinate to the warlike Aesir.

Following Cortés' visit, no Spanish attempted to visit the warlike Itza inhabitants of Nojpetén for almost a hundred years.