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When the landlord refused to refund the deposit, Mihdhar became belligerent.
In the New York Times last week, columnist Thomas Friedman whacked the China bashers for their belligerent carping over the Cox report: "Where exactly do you guys think you are going with this?
The Washington Post goes with North Korea's belligerent admission for the first time Tuesday that it has and will continue to develop and test ballistic missiles as well as sell them to the likes of Iran, Iraq and Syria.
Isolationist sentiments don't prevent DeLay and Co. from saber-rattling; and given the belligerent stands they often take toward countries like China or Cuba, "petulant unilateralists" might be a better term for them.
With its belligerent grossness and misogyny, Hustler rebelled against the establishment men's mags' class condescension, the earnest philosophizing about the sexual revolution, the "thinking men's sex bomb" syndrome, at the same time that it was deliberately goading feminists.