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Example sentences for: belligerence

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Sinologists debated whether the Chinese regime is sincerely paranoid or is feigning belligerence to appease the Chinese public's paranoia.
Writing on the LAT opinion page, contributing editor Robert Scheer makes the provocative argument that the quickest way to halt China's belligerence is to simply hand over all our nuclear warhead and ballistics secrets.
I refer, with my trademark belligerence, to gay-bashing and encouraging the police to gun down the mentally ill; well actually, I suppose Mayor Giuliani is doing one of those."
"Let no one outside Ulster dare accuse them of bigotry or belligerence," it said.
But to debate that question by itself is already a loaded proposition, because it overlooks the corresponding question of whether Milosevic has misjudged NATO's efficacy and resolve--and whether he, accordingly, can be humbled into reconsidering his belligerence before we reconsider ours.