Sentence examples for warlike actions from inspiring English sources

In the Song of the Queen of Spring, a text published in 1643, the Fifth Dalai Lama describes Gushri Khan as an emanation of the great Bodhisattva Vajrapāni, and justifies his warlike actions as motivated by compassion (Maher 2008, 186 90).

And the grief would unfold into caring about all those beings who were bound to suffer from our warlike actions.

Those under Chapter Seven give the council broad powers to take action, including warlike action, to deal with "threats to the peace, breaches of the peace, or acts of aggression".

Mr. Lipkin-Shahak defined the attack as a warlike action, and several Israeli military experts today said that Israel was inching toward a limited war against the Palestinian Authority.

The course of events in the film also suggests that religious devotion and warlike action may well come into mutual conflict, that the devout will turn to the martial only with the greatest reluctance, and that the most effective fighters aren't likely to be bound by pious feelings.

For almost 20 years thereafter no significant warlike activity is reported.

Within this loose grouping, it is now axiomatic that 'the relationship proper to power' should be sought 'not on the side of violence or struggle…but, rather, in the area of that singular mode of action, neither warlike nor juridical, that of government' (Foucault, 2002e[1982]: 341).

The administration appears to be creating a new kind of warlike campaign – a militarized police action – that follows neither the rules of war nor the rule of law.

He also allied himself with the warlike Bastarnae, and both this and his actions in Greece possibly violated the treaty signed with the Romans by his father or, if not, certainly was not "behaving as [Rome considered] a subordinate ally should".

To judge from the parliamentary vote in Britain and the debate in France over military action in Syria, even the more martial countries are now less warlike.

And the warlike image of Jesus also fits with President George W. Bush's discussions of a godly purpose behind American military actions in Afghanistan and Iraq.