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
While Bulgaria was thus holding the menace of her army over Roumania’s head, and M. Bratiano stood irresolute between belligerency and neutrality, the German and Austrian armies were effectively co-operating with German and Austrian diplomatists.
From England and Germany by Hughes, William Morris
