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

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

But those gains risk being overtaken by China’s rapidly worsening relations with its neighbors and escalating belligerency from North Korea.

From Washington Post

Agents were kept in the neutral countries to corrupt the local press and poison the wells of information in order to allure the neutrals into belligerency.

From England and Germany by Hughes, William Morris