belligerency
Example Sentences
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"We do want to have the region come to terms between all the countries and agree against any belligerency from any side to any other."
From Reuters ● Nov. 5, 2022
His belligerency and weapons programs make it difficult.
From Washington Post ● May 13, 2022
Since Japan did not formally declare war on China, a state of belligerency did not technically exist.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
Whether it works or not, it shows how much the nature of modern belligerency is changing.
From Economist ● Oct. 12, 2011
Sickles received the most careful instructions to proceed in a conciliatory fashion, and in no manner to imply any recognition by the United States of the belligerency of Cuba.
From The History of Cuba, vol. 3 by Willis Fletcher Johnson
