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But bellicose intercontinental ballistic missiles were not the only spawn of Sputnik's launch. There was also the satellite itself.

The bellicose belle with beige skin was one of my beloved belongings.

European integration has already transformed most of a famously bellicose continent into a stable zone of peace.

That said, Americans want a tough president, not a psychopath: some of her Republican rivals remain worryingly bellicose.

China, of course, insists it has no bellicose intentions.

Despite occasional bellicose reactions to what it regards as provocations, China still harbours no ambition to be a hegemonic power.

Also, I have got to mention such unwise and bellicose leaders of an island country---Japan.

The presence of this medium incites bellicose exhibitions in a boy , first in games, then in fact when he is strong enough .

North Korea has struck an unusually bellicose stance with its rich southern neighbour recently.

Nine years, two nuclear tests and countless acts of bellicose aggression later, it is clear that was not a turning-point for the better.

And Mr Giuliani is far more bellicose than any other candidate.

I remind myself that the war in Iraq started with bellicose posturing and photographs.

As bellicose rival politicians rattled their kris in a recent fishing row with Malaysia, he was statesmanlike and calm.

So, Seoul is in a self-congratulatory (and slightly bellicose) mood.

The bellicose editorial was certainly newsworthy, assuming that the paper on some level is a mouthpiece for China's rulers.

Leaders often shout orders; generals bark; bellicose preachers, to save our souls, get gothic on our asses.

The President is congenitally allergic to the bellicose language Presidents typically employ to summon the dogs of war.

Among the Kuomintang troops, we should win over all the possible opponents of civil war and isolate the bellicose elements.

Some irresponsible politicians made a bellicose remarks.

They hold that, once entrenched, only Lincoln's bellicose policy could have eradicated it.

Counter-insurgency experts are urging them to be less bellicose.

Predictably, North Korea has responded to the UN resolution by firing off another round of bellicose threats.

The prospect of mutual annihilation for the rival powers chilled bellicose passions.

William Hague, then a backbencher and now the shadow foreign secretary, was especially bellicose.

It beats bellicose rhetoric, of course, but Taiwan should hardly expect something for nothing.

Bellicose rhetoric most often serves as an excuse for inaction.

But if cool heads prevail, peacemaking metaphors could yet become as pervasive as today's bellicose ones.

Bellicose: Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious.

The south has been safer than in decades. Bellicose words are often followed by calmer ones.

In Egypt, however, decades of bellicose rhetoric about the Nile have made the river's water an explosive issue.

Less bellicose but equally specific definitions are now in force in Britain.

North Korea's increasingly bellicose attitude towards South Korea rattled the world.

Bellicose workers are problems of the factory.

But studies of World War II veterans suggest that very few men are innately bellicose.

It fears that talks will merely reinforce the North's perception that bellicose actions lead to good results.

The Afghans I met were neither xenophobic nor bellicose.

Mark N. Brown, 49, an artist painting nearby, was less bellicose.

The image of divine kingship was abused in Japan for bellicose and authoritarian ends.

A bellicose nation is a warlike nation that tends to resort to armswith little or no cause

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