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

All this lends quite an air of belligerency to the tumble-down building that houses them.

From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume X, Missouri Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration