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Example sentences for "belligerence"

Lexicographically close words:
bellicis; bellicose; bellie; bellied; bellies; belligerency; belligerent; belligerently; belligerents; belling
  1. He looked at her with the faintest hint of cool belligerence in his fine dark eyes.

  2. Parker glanced at her with a broad hint of belligerence in his keen gray eyes.

  3. As a result, the limited aims and means of the campaign were maintained and NATO was not dragged into either British belligerence or Italian and Greek defeatism.

  4. Their independence was recognized more tardily, after ample discussion in these two Chambers as late as 1820; but their belligerence was a fact perfectly established and recognized by every branch of the Government.

  5. When the belligerence of the insurgents is recognized there will be a case for neutrality, and not before.

  6. Belligerence is a “fact,” attested by evidence.

  7. Our Government, our courts, every department of the Government, recognized the belligerence of those Spanish colonies.

  8. The recognition of Rebel belligerence in France was wrong without injury; but that same recognition in England was wrong with injury, and it is of this unquestionable injury that we complain.

  9. On the recognition of belligerence there is much latitude of opinion,--some asserting that a nation may take this step whenever it pleases; but this pretension excludes the idea that belligerence is always a question of fact on the evidence.

  10. Until the belligerence of these people is recognized, they are not of themselves a power, they are not a people.

  11. Muriel Harding shrewdly surveyed the scene before her, a glint of belligerence in her eyes.

  12. The callers had aroused belligerence in Jerry, Ronny and Muriel.

  13. The instant she noted the change from sarcasm to belligerence in Leslie Cairns' tones, she became ready to speak and act.

  14. If Rebel Slavery does not come within the conditions of ocean war, then, whatever its belligerence on land, it cannot expect it on the ocean.

  15. The concession of belligerence is the recognition of such limited sovereignty, which bears the same relation to acknowledged independence as gristle bears to bone.

  16. The concession of ocean belligerence is a letter of license from consenting powers to every Slavemonger cruiser, or rather it is the countersign of these powers to the commission of every such cruiser.

  17. In that semi-sovereignty which constitutes belligerence on land there must be provision for the administration of justice, without which there is nothing but a mob.

  18. The declaration of belligerence imparts legal competence, and the right to testify by flag and arms.

  19. The embryo of Rebel Slavery has not that degree of sovereignty on the ocean which is essential to belligerence there.

  20. And missiles fare better among the Netizens, despite their reluctance to embrace belligerence for settling disputes.

  21. Its violence, different from the staged buffoonery of wrestling, is in sync with the spirit of belligerence implicit in today's competitive environment: "We teach our boys to spear and gore.

  22. Despite his slow and deliberate reasoning, however, his demeanor could rapidly transform into reckless belligerence if tormented.

  23. This belligerence should not be taken personally by either relatives or hospital staff, nor should the unfounded anger described above be ingested as relating to their presence or prescribed duties.


  24. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "belligerence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aggression; antagonism; antipathy; attack; battle; belligerence; bickering; bloodshed; chauvinism; clash; collision; combat; conflict; contention; dissension; dissent; dissidence; faction; ferocity; fight; fighting; flak; friction; hate; hatred; hostilities; hostility; infighting; irascibility; jingoism; malevolence; malice; militancy; militarism; repugnance; spite; truculence; unfriendliness; war; warpath; warring; wartime