Sentence examples for warlike people from inspiring English sources

The Chinese, he fondly believed, were "not a warlike people".

That work cast the Yanomami as a fierce, warlike people, although other researchers say that view is exaggerated.

Originally a nomadic, warlike people practicing animal breeding and known for lawlessness, today most Mina and Meo are farmers with respected social positions.

The Alani were first mentioned in Roman literature in the 1st century ce and were described later as a warlike people who specialized in horse breeding.

It prospered most brilliantly under Gudea, who was probably a governor rather than an independent king and was nominally subject to the Guti, a warlike people who controlled much of Babylonia from about 2230 to about 2130.

If the occupiers often seemed oblivious to reality, one reason was that many jobs at the C.P.A. went to people whose qualifications seemed to lie mainly in their personal and political connections -- people like Simone Ledeen, whose father, Michael Ledeen, a prominent neoconservative, told a forum that "the level of casualties is secondary" because "we are a warlike people" and "we love war".

Both involvements were related to the combined need of all the lowland civilizations to control the warlike peoples to the east and to exploit the economic resources of the plateau.

They were warlike seminomadic people who lived in large thatched dwellings grouped in villages; each village was surrounded by a defensive palisade.

So there you have it: fiction and nonfiction writers agree that we're a warlike, lusty people, hard fightin' and hard lovin'.

Lycaonia, ancient region in the interior of Anatolia north of the Taurus Mountains, inhabited by a wild and warlike aboriginal people who pastured sheep and wild asses on the bleak central highlands.

"And I think there's some substance to that, because my father ended up living there 12 years, and I couldn't imagine living 12 years with a savage, warlike, fierce people.