Sentence examples for not bellicose from inspiring English sources

Such steps are not bellicose; they are simply the necessary course to contain an imperial regime.

The patriotic mood in America last week was not bellicose, as many European leftists have claimed: it was sombre, deep-seated and determined.

It threatened to shoot out the offending loudspeakers.Meanwhile, whether by design or not, bellicose statements from Pyongyang against the "confrontation maniacs" in the South added to turmoil on global financial markets on May 25th.

But I'm not bellicose about it.

That's not as bellicose as it could have been.

Russians in the Ukraine, Russians in the Baltic states who are already members of the EU and Nato?" Fortunately, the PM is not so bellicose today.

Say what you will about his shtick; Ross has grown to be one of the most prolific figures in rap (he averages an album every year since 2006), and so long as he's around the genre won't lack bellicose bragging.

And the Chinese press has not been uniformly bellicose.

The trouble is that Atzmon has often argued that the Zionist oppression of the Palestinians is attributable not to the bellicose politics of the Israeli state, but to Jewish lobbies and Jewish power.

Whatever lies Putin and Medvedev choose to circulate, the confrontation of August 2008 is not between a bellicose (let alone "Nazi") Georgia and its "fraternal" big neighbor; or between capitalist democracies and an autocratic Moscow-Beijing axis that is no less capitalist; or even between a European culture of freedom and another based on nationalist sovereignty.

That one little word -- "So?" -- reflected how little regard Mr. Cheney had for the opinions of those who did not share his bellicose ideology.