belligerence

His reputation for savagery and belligerence is nothing but a myth.

Some of his crabby belligerence may have been prompted by the ill-health and awful accidents that dogged his wife and children.

Henceforth it will find it a lot harder to hide its belligerence behind America's unpopularity.

Mr. Obama said threats and belligerence would not earn prestige and respect for the communist North, and that Pyongyang has an alternative.

There was no belligerence in my question. I was only curious as to why it was me in particular.

Japan bore the brunt of Chinese belligerence in September 2010, when a Chinese fishing trawler rammed one of its coast guard boats.

Aggressive negotiating does have its place if used in small doses, while constant belligerence will rarely result in a penned contract.

But he told CBS's Early Show that he sees a growing belligerence on the part of North Korea, and a stepped up defiance of international law.

They attribute the belligerence in the first eight months of this year to a regime whose top leadership seemed suddenly vulnerable.

ONCE a byword for state-run inefficiency, Telstra is now famous instead for corporate belligerence and executive arrogance.

The Bible isn't the only Scripture with such vacillations between belligerence and tolerance.

North Korea's recent belligerence fuelled fears Pyongyang was simply not in a mood to talk.

The belligerence of Marlon Brando's performance as the violent Stanley Kowalski in A streetcar Named Desire electrified the country.

However, it was Litten's belligerence, as well as his forensic intelligence, that made his interrogation of Hitler so effective.

Mr. Gates said in his meetings with Japanese officials that they discussed the 'appropriate response' to North Korea's belligerence.

North Korea's belligerence would, of necessity, be directed at all of the six-party members, including China.

Asks Colin Clark: Why has Chinese foreign policy made a sudden turnabout from 'peaceful development' to 'belligerence'?

It had little to do during the period of American belligerence 1917-18.

China's recent belligerence toward Japan has worried its neighbors, including Taiwan, which the mainland regards as a prodigal son.

That, however, would require a bit more Russian belligerence.

Japan's troubles with its neighbours are still vexed by past belligerence.

Yet the West is right to respond firmly to Russia's new belligerence by refusing to recognise the new states.

These policies are, in turn, aggravating hostilities and allowing the Bush administration to justify its belligerence.

This respect cannot be earned through belligerence.

Does anyone, particularly in Beijing, believe Mr Obama would do anything nearly as muscular faced with comparable belligerence today?

Pyongyang's belligerence provides an opportunity to fundamentally attract Beijing to the allies' position.

Mr Putin, despite his belligerence about the 1990s, is the very epitome of that period.

North Korea's continued belligerence since 1950 created a requirement for a U. S. military presence in the northwest Pacific.

E. g. The belligerence in Turner's voice told them that the warning was a serious threat.

In the view of army commanders, China remains beset by enmity and hazards and is the target of military belligerence, not its initiator.

With Soviet-style belligerence, the Russian bear of today is using its powerful paw to swipe at conventional- and nuclear-arms pacts.

placate These verbs all refer to allaying another 's anger , belligerence , discontent, or agitation .

North Korea's recent belligerence, in the view of many analysts, is related to a succession process underway in Pyongyang.

For years, Kim has veered unpredictably between belligerence and conciliation.

Arousing passion or strong emotion, especially anger, belligerence, or desire.

China's belligerence serves only to reinforce South Korea's dependence on the American military.

Not surprisingly, religion has absorbed this belligerence, as became hideously clear with the September 11 atrocities.

The West tried to be a friend in the Yeltsin years, but has since been put off by Russian belligerence.

Again, we turn to the past f firmness, but no belligerence, and by no belligerence.

China's manifold domestic problems are another cause of China's belligerence.

Some in Seoul link North Korea's belligerence to parliamentary elections in the South on April 9th.

Mr Kim's belligerence has backfired in political terms too.

I do not say this in any spirit of bravado or belligerence .

He is more inclined to belligerence towards political opponents, whether they be trade unions or the Labour Party.

But Washington has said Pyongyang must first end its belligerence and make good on pledges from previous rounds of talks.