belligerency

The right to belligerency of the state will not be recognized."

Thus the Taiwan question moved from belligerency to political deferral.

"So have we," Freddie said with a trace of belligerency.

There was false belligerency in his voice, and she knew she had him then.

I came back with muttered belligerency, trying to remind him what his attitude was supposed to be.

The stunner was no longer centered on her and his tone had lost some of its belligerency.

The decision in effect meant that Washington was conceding the rights of belligerency to those who took up arms against it at sea.

The last of the peace delegation had gone, as he put it to her, "in a state of belligerency."

Turkey's active belligerency, in order to blockade Russia from the south, had become imperative.

It is the Palestinian issue that currently provides a false pretext for belligerency.

Belligerency and political mistrust may still, of course, vanquish economic imperatives.

Rather than reacting as he had to the earlier recognition of belligerency, Seward let this matter drop.

The termination of all claims or states of belligerency.

They rise above any status of belligerency or outlawry."

The other, that we shall lose a chance for peace and then be in a state of belligerency for many years to come."

Do not complain, avoid belligerency, and comply with all orders and instructions.

I hope Irans people don't pay the price for the regime's belligerency.

Once the status of belligerency is established between two or more states, their relations are determined and governed by the laws of war.

He lost some of his belligerency.

It was not an alliance, as Roosevelt neither wanted nor could make a formal commitment to American belligerency.

It had not depended on America's status, whether of belligerency, nonbelligerency, or neutrality.

American officials said there was still a state of belligerency between the two countries dating from the Korean War, despite the armistice signed in 1953.

The Russian Federation emerged from its own desperate internal cataclysms with a new belligerency.

The billionaire's belligerency could only help Spenser.

However not all rebellions are insurgencies, as state of belligerency may exist between one or more sovereign states and rebel forces.