How To Use Belligerent In A Sentence

Even between belligerent states, such treaties will not necessarily be suspended; a fortiori, if the conflict is not international, treaty rules will in general continue to apply.
Whereas quotations with an apothegmatic feel are normally ascribed to Shaw, those with a more grandiose or belligerent tone are almost automatically credited to Churchill.
No whimper, nor sound, nor sign of fear, came from Jerry — only choking growls of ferociousness, intermingled with snarls of anger, and a belligerent up-clawing of hind-legs. CHAPTER XVI
During war, the right of postliminy can only be claimed in the tribunals of the belligerent powers, and not in the courts of neutrals; for by a general law of nations, neutrals have no right to enquire into any captures, except such as are an infringement of their own neutrality. [ The Laws Of War, Affecting Commerce And Shipping
A local armistice suspends operations between certain portions of the belligerent forces or within a designated district of the theater of operations.

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It turned out, however, that Barroso was on belligerent and coruscating form. Eurozone crisis: European Union prepares for the 'great leap forward'
The mention of his name caused the woman to scowl quite belligerently, and the dog gave another low growl. Not So Innocent
She looked like a tank in her bathing costume, Hoomey thought, squat and powerful and belligerent.
Less belligerent in its audience pandering than its predecessors (less fart jokes, less homophobic subtext, and - thank Jesus - less squawking from Eddie Murphy), Shrek the Third may not give haters a migraine, but its lobotomized sense of comic brinkmanship is still without fun. GreenCine Daily: Shrek the Third.
It should also cancel any existing sales of military equipment to possible belligerents in the war, the organisation said in a statement.
Americans who took passage on belligerent ships after such a proclamation had been issued would do so at their own risk. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
Therefore, they use shorter maceration and fermentation, but with techniques that nonetheless extract good color; age in smaller barrels in order to oxidize and soften tannin gently and to add a note of vanilla; and perform a secondary fermentation called malolactic to achieve less belligerent acidity. Chicagotribune.com - News
Watch out! Lee's in a belligerent mood.
Though they were now only 65 air miles from their destination, the great salt lake lay more than 200 miles down the meandering river, through bands of belligerent nomads, wild rapids and a sun that threatened to "carbonize those who should be unprotected from its fierceness. Old Salt, Dead Sea
In cases involving criminal prosecution of unlawful belligerents, this could mean imposing peacetime rules on the collection of evidence.
`Well, the hospital got its money, anyway," she said belligerently to Frank, the goldfish. ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
But naval power can never, by itself, win wars except where either island states, or ones dependent on sea power for survival, are the belligerents, or the conflict itself is for control of an island.
Judged alongside their abstemious Anglo-Saxon counterparts, they were seen as unruly, belligerent and not to be relied on, a slur that was extended to generations through media distortion and police discrimination.
It is based upon the customary international laws of belligerent occupation, including the Hague Regulations.
THE JORDAN TIMES editorial, entitled "A Thought for Humanity", in the 25th of December edition of the THE JORDAN TIMES indicates the degree of impatience Jordan and other neighbouring Holy Land states are having with both Israel's and Hamas 'belligerent (i.e. round-the-wagons) approach to governance and failed peacemaking in this new Millennium. William Walker Reports from Rachel's Tomb Checkpoint of the Massive Barrier Wall Near Bethlehem this Christmas
To add to that, an eye witness interviewd by CNN says, "I heard nothing that Gates said but, I believe he acted belligerently" ... NRCC targets Obama for saying Cambridge cop 'acted stupidly'
He's a good footballer but he's not very aggressive, not very belligerent and I'd like to think that with 20-odd caps he'd be a bit more aggressive than he is.
I call your Excellency's attention to this, notwithstanding it is already known to all the world as a consequence of the publication of our correspondence in regard to these matters with several of the belligerent nations, because I cannot assume that you have official cognizance of it. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915
Often aggressive and belligerent, the generationally biased—let's call them Gee-Bees—rarely attribute their affection for the music of their youth to tender memories. Meet the Gee-Bees
These articles seem to sanction the right of angary against neutral property, while limiting it as against both belligerent and neutral property. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
Condemning what the UDPS termed the lethargy of the United Nations and the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in the conflict, and the "delays and excuses of the belligerents," the UDPS noted "with concern inflammatory and warlike statements that reduce the chances of peace. ANC Daily News Briefing
Senior politicians use incredibly belligerent rhetoric that presents protest as a crime. Times, Sunday Times
He notes that some 75 years later in Quirin ‘the Court concluded that Milligan… was a non-belligerent, not subject to the law of war.’
The same goes for any bully: A racist, a misogynist, a homophobe, a transphobe, a disablist, a fat-hater, a xenophobe, a privileged jerk of any stripe who belligerently wields hir privilege like a weapon. Shakesville
Perhaps these will provide guidance on other unlawful belligerents as well.
In effect, what the critics of military tribunals would have the President do is turn enemy belligerents over to civilian law enforcement authorities for prosecution.
The belligerent crazification and the blazing straw men are reason enough to love the guy, but the best thing about Fred Hiatt is his severe case of anterograde amnesia. Matthew Yglesias » Don’t Call It a Comeback
The country's belligerent veto threats seemed to signal its willingness to force grievous splits in the Security Council.
nonbelligerent nations
They'd have said I was only a poor kid, conscience-stricken for having wished the man dead, and that he wouldn't have gone charging into the water if he hadn't been in a belligerent rage.
This attitude is defiantly hip and belligerently contemporary.
Why do we hand them this right to be recognised as belligerents, when we do not even understand their war aims?
Except for Paboo, my belligerent cross-eyed bucktooth feline. The prodigal spider returneth!
At the same time, given that a belligerent Ireland was judged not to be in a position to defend itself against a German attack, Britain would have had to supply its new ally with arms and men, both of which were scarce.
They ignored the command, tacitly agreeing to fight it out on land where it seemed safer for the belligerently inclined. Goliah
Meanwhile the wives and children of these belligerents would have starved had it not been for the datto, who, notwithstanding the difference in their faith, looked after them all, until the discomfited warriors returned to more peaceful pursuits. A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route
Yet, as Athanasius and his cobelligerents knew, Christianity itself hung upon the debate with the Arians.
Are they staying schtum, hanging on the coat tails of the belligerent ones until they feel that we've been browbeaten into submission, then make the play? Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
They gave my new acquaintance a somewhat belligerent aspect, you may be sure!
It may be that for a long time some nations will continue to fight each other, but the example of those nations who prefer arbitration to war, law courts to the battlefield, must sooner or later influence the belligerent powers and make war as unpopular as pugilism is now. Randal Cremer - Nobel Lecture
Aggressive or belligerent behavior would have undermined the objectives of the expedition and could well have proved suicidal.
Watch out! Lee's in a belligerent mood.
The liscom gas had actually worked like a narcotic, lulling the people into a peaceful frame of mind and allowing the two races to coexist in harmony and to gain Federation membership for their world, unlike their belligerent parent worlds. A Time to Hate
And, in fact, they have been delivering some tough talk here at the administration, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemning North Korea for what she called provocative and belligerent threats. CNN Transcript May 27, 2009
Koju and the uniform revved the engine and drove belligerently in front of us.
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The old bloke is 84 and one of the most belligerent and funniest people I've ever met.
Historically, when military forces occupied belligerent territory, little how-to guidance existed.
Hitler was on the point of invading the Soviet Union, the United States was still a non-belligerent and Britain was struggling to hold her own.
He threw himself --- recklessly, belligerently --- into the skin-chapping blare of oceanic pandemonium. BEHINDLINGS
“So it was you, was it, you black beggar?” belligerently demanded one Kelly, an Irish-American and a longshoreman, making his first trip to sea, and boat-puller for Kerfoot. Chapter 15
For the dozenth time, maritime law recognizes the right of a belligerent operating a blockade to seize blockade runners in international waters. The Volokh Conspiracy » “Free Gaza” Activists’ Version of the Ship Incident
Indeed, this war continued in the wake of ongoing internal conflicts in several of the belligerent nations.
34 The Ruine of Rome was punctuated with belligerent language of this sort, and Dent used "papist" and "Romish" as the worst of epithets. Luther and English Apocalypticism: The Role of Luther in Three Seventeenth-Century Commentaries on the Book of Revelation
He put his hands on his hips and glared belligerently at her, looking and sounding for all the world like a teacher scolding her for stealing another student's toy.
The 1935 act banned munitions exports to belligerents and restricted American travel on belligerent ships.
Gradually the panellists changed, becoming less flashy and belligerent and a bit quieter. Times, Sunday Times
His chin was tilted up, creating a belligerent mask-like effect, readily magnified by the frosted glare of his eyes.
belligerent (or warring) nations
Yet, as Athanasius and his cobelligerents knew, Christianity itself hung upon the debate with the Arians.
Albert Finney is the cocky, belligerent antihero of Karel Reisz's Saturday Night, Sunday Morning, scripted by Alan Sillitoe from his novel: a truculent toolmaker with an off-duty taste for fine suitings.
He was almost back to his belligerent mood of twelve months ago.
Somebody should have catalogued his increasingly belligerent rhetoric, compared and contrasted his statements to prior formulations, and laid out one or more plausible explanations for the change.
The Chartreux cat stared belligerently at Sam, yawned and began licking a black paw.
Troops readily change their allegiances, while the dividing line between non-belligerents and those in active service is tenuous and easily shifted.
Military leaders of the belligerents thought that dropping or landing of forces right on the target area was as a rule possible and even necessary when the target area was small.
Square one -- in all its recalcitrant glory -- belligerent and incontestable. THE CALLIGRAPHER
In 1939, the United States modified its neutrality stance in World War Two, allowing "cash and carry" purchases of arms by belligerents, a policy favoring Britain and France.
When Germany reoccupied the Rhineland in March 1936, the French government initially made belligerent noises, but once it became clear that Britain would not provide support, the French quietly acquiesced.
So that it cannot be denied that we may treat the Rebel States as _enemies_, and adopt all measures against them _which any belligerents engaged in a just war may adopt_. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
Belligerent patriotic sentiments are on display all over the world.
While this policy enabled the country to remain a non-belligerent in World War I, it did not prevent a German occupation during much of World War II.
Moreover, as against states not parties to an international armed conflict, belligerents enjoy no special privileges and remain bound by general rules of international law.
Combatants who do not fulfil the requisite criteria for POW status (who, for example, do not carry arms openly) or civilians who have taken a direct part in hostilities in an international armed conflict (so-called "unprivileged" or "unlawful" belligerents) are protected by the Fourth Geneva Convention provided they are enemy nationals. Balkinization
And now commenced a tremendous rivalry between these two doughty commanders, striving to outstrut and outswell each other, like a couple of belligerent turkey-cocks. Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete
A war may exist where one of the belligerents, claims sovereign rights as against theother. The Volokh Conspiracy » Greenwald and Gaza
In the direction of the beneficial meddling of Europe, the recognition of the FARC as a belligerent force is fundamental, as it is well indicated by the insurgent organization itself, since the demential blindness of Alvaro Uribe Vélez only allows him to listen to the warmongering 'siren songs' of the United States, which at the same time satisfy his morbid obsession. Is The FARC A terrorist organisation ?
Chen, she said, has taken what she characterized as a provocative and belligerent stance toward mainland China, all for his personal political gain, in hopes that he can be hailed as the savior who stands up to Communist China. Archive 2006-04-01
A belligerent stance was one's only deterrent against other people whose interests were in conflict with one's own.
All that changed in 1918 when, like two punch-drunk boxers, the belligerents began finally to land blows which had effect.
North Korea remained belligerent despite Mr Obama's plea to tyrannies to "unclench your fist".
It can be belligerent, biased and sometimes blatantly unfair. The Sun
And I think we do need to hear what they are saying because they act as a restraint to an aggressive or belligerent response’.
Bilardo, I feel compelled to add, was also a qualified gynaecologist – something that suggests that either the former Estudiantes midfield bagsnatcher was not quite as insensitive and belligerent as he appeared, or that his life story would make a particularly disturbing David Cronenberg movie. Dressingroomistas v Structuralists: football's perennial problem
Each belligerent calls his own battle line a bastion of iron.
‘By sowing mines in international waters,’ historian John Coogan explains, ‘Britain deliberately replaced the belligerent right of visit and search with a new rule: explode andsink.’ from The politically incorrect guide to American History, by Thomas E. Woods. The Volokh Conspiracy » Gaza Blockade Violence News You May Have Missed
It was tempting to dismiss the demonstrators as a ragtag collection of belligerent misfits - and some of them were.
Several of the belligerents in the recent war were not parties to this Convention.
It is widely recognized that access by belligerent groups to the gains from drug production and trafficking contributes to the intensity and prolongation of military conflict.
They were probably all nice people but they acted like caricatures of government bureaucrats: at once belligerent and ignorant, threatening and uninterested, detached and intrusive.
The law of Nuremberg stated simply, that it is not legal to launch a war of aggression against a passive, non-belligerent country.
All the expedients of strategy nevertheless share a common purpose: to reach military results that alter the political calculations of the belligerents.
Was her survival as a belligerent therefore of much importance? The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
The threat of war thus disrupts financial markets and non-belligerents will try to move resources away, as will the belligerents' own nationals if they can.
But it also must have involved dialogue, collaboration, exchange, communication, recognition, and similar non-belligerent relations.
Also, I take this opportunity to apologise to the deputies involved for my belligerent behaviour. Times, Sunday Times
Every cut or twist of tire evokes a different feeling, from scary to charming, aggressive to shy, belligerent to just plain worn out.
The Chief Minister's belligerent attitude and his subsequent public utterances justifying his stance have only made matters worse for the Centre.
She murmured something belligerent and turned away. Times, Sunday Times
Numerous specific shop-floor situations generated anger and easily drifted into aggressive or belligerent acts, either verbal or physical.
This framework must recognize the unique threat that terrorists pose to nation-states, yet not grant them the legitimacy accorded to belligerent states.
At the same time, it must be stressed that under international law, the responsibility for protecting civilians caught up in war or conflict falls on the belligerents.
But some of them are pretty belligerently Christian (wearing crosses around their necks, eating and selling pork, etc.) Matthew Yglesias » War on Christmas Just Got More Fierce
The court could simply apply the Quirin decision holding that the 5th and 6th Amendments do not apply to unlawful belligerents facing a military commission to the status hearings which determine whether the capture is an unlawful combatant. Balkinization
Such views naturally lead to an ‘aggressive, belligerent foreign policy’, she added.
he pushed her against the wall belligerently
Government need only allege an individual kept in detention, is an Unprivileged Enemy Belligerent suspected of; having engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners; or has purposefully and materially supported hostilities against the United States; its coalition partners; or against U.S. civilians. The Volokh Conspiracy » Peter Spiro on Lieberman’s Citizenship-Stripping Legislation
He was almost back to his belligerent mood of twelve months ago.
She is a wolf in designer wool, a belligerent desire masked by natural grace and a petite frame that jars against the norm. Times, Sunday Times
She looked like a tank in her bathing costume, Hoomey thought, squat and powerful and belligerent.
She was dramatically plain and belligerently unpressed, as if to proclaim her lack of style a style worth fighting for. DEATH OF A NYMPH
The Congress endorsed a call for neutral countries to mediate between the belligerents.
There was the barney with his belligerent star man, Zlatko Zahovic, whose disrespectful verbal assault on his coach saw him head home on Thursday.
The rules of warfare are established by international law with a view to regulating the conduct of belligerents in the course of international armed conflicts.
Dream we are obliged to defend ms we are particularly taken with at the moment before a panel of senior agents, all of whom belligerently scoff at its merits. MONDAY
Somebody should have catalogued his increasingly belligerent rhetoric, compared and contrasted his statements to prior formulations, and laid out one or more plausible explanations for the change.
A moment later their threatening and belligerent attitude made him realize he and Les were outnumbered and outweighed.
Also, Moody's Scottish background - in the books, he sometimes uses the word "laddy" - might be a nod to one of the most belligerent of the Protestant Reformers The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women HogwartsProfessor.com
The government had reason to view him as a representative of vicious, belligerent forces hostile to the West.
She murmured something belligerent and turned away. Times, Sunday Times
But in the federal arena, belligerents on both sides are escalating their brinksmanship.
Not satisfied with the elected councilors squabbling among themselves they altercate like belligerent magpies over over who gets to peck the bottletop, and lick the cream of the milk.
‘I never started explaining,’ Penelope pointed out belligerently.
The meters were installed in response to complaints from local merchants that were losing business because some panhandlers were becoming aggressive and belligerent, refusing to move from doorways and harassing shoppers.
The country remained a non-belligerent, but was enclosed within the area of German control.
He was almost back to his belligerent mood of twelve months ago.
I have connected with nuclear non-proliferation activists, had run-ins with belligerent drug dealers and -- believe it or not -- mingled with a nudist or two! Leon Logothetis: The Babysitting Chronicles: Listen and Love
Also, Mom knows that Jenny is a badgerer and that no matter what she says, Jenny will have a belligerent, provocative response. Parent in Control
He was almost back to his belligerent mood of twelve months ago.
He had a belligerent aspect.
In rejecting this challenge, the Court drew the distinction between the common law notion of lawful and unlawful belligerents.
A diplomat who helped to bring peace between two belligerent states by mediating between them might be particularly well rewarded.
They gave my new acquaintance a somewhat belligerent aspect, you may be sure!
By this it was provided that thereafter the captain of a cruiser who should impress an American citizen should be liable to heavy penalties, to be enacted by law; but as the preamble to this proposition read, "Whereas it is not lawful for a belligerent to impress or carry off, from on board a neutral, seafaring persons _who are not the subjects of the belligerent_," there was admitted implicitly the right to impress those who were such subjects, the precise point at issue. Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 1
Women married to aggressive men become more belligerent behind the wheel, and men whose wives are timid drivers become more careful. Times, Sunday Times
Since Switzerland was a nonbelligerent, the airmen were not considered either prisoners of war or evaders; having entered the country armed and willingly, they were classified as internees. Masters of the Air
This battle of the belligerent blokes bids well for the bold and reform minded Libs., and hence the moribund healt care rerform of the previous 1993-94 era can bet on a better outcome with new methods in resuscitation. Liberal groups step up efforts against Democrat Ben Nelson
In arguments they are emotionally very aggressive - belligerent, contemptuous, insulting.
In combination with the threatening and belligerent attitude of the princes, it did much to fuel the violent anti-émigré attitude of the Legislative Assembly during the autumn of 1791.
He was almost back to his belligerent mood of twelve months ago.
‘By sowing mines in international waters,’ historian John Coogan explains, ‘Britain deliberately replaced the belligerent right of visit and search with a new rule: explode andsink.’ The Volokh Conspiracy » Gaza Blockade Violence News You May Have Missed
The women at the boards near to her scrambled, first, to the hot iron to save the cloth, and then to her, while the forewoman hurried belligerently down the aisle. CHAPTER I
Gradually the panellists changed, becoming less flashy and belligerent and a bit quieter. Times, Sunday Times
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‘Don't even think about asking,’ he cautioned belligerently.
A contentious or belligerent personality toward others is indicative of hyper-sensitivity and a feeling of never being fully understood.
The women at the boards near to her scrambled, first, to the hot iron to save the cloth, and then to her, while the forewoman hurried belligerently down the aisle. CHAPTER I
Such ‘popular passions’ were at least as important as political or military calculations in the determination of the belligerents to press on with the war.
However, when there is a war, of which our people are much experienced, such a naïve attitude can only be disastrous when confronting a belligerent foe, and can only bring great misery to the defending side.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton condemning North Korea for what she called provocative and belligerent threats. CNN Transcript May 27, 2009
At first the committee had to work covertly as under the Neutrality Acts an American could lose his citizenship if he fought in the armed forces of a belligerent power.
Such views naturally lead to an ‘aggressive, belligerent foreign policy’, she added.
He also reminds readers that neutral status in wartime runs the risk of attracting contempt from belligerent states.
Take also the case of lawful belligerent reprisals (for example, the use of prohibited weapons).
Senior politicians use incredibly belligerent rhetoric that presents protest as a crime. Times, Sunday Times
Brown contact lenses create the glassy, belligerent stare; prosthetics conjure the flaky skin.
Square one -- in all its recalcitrant glory -- belligerent and incontestable. THE CALLIGRAPHER
You're a peach of a dog man, you are," he announced belligerently. CHAPTER XXX
Over the autumn and winter their language became hysterically belligerent towards the German princelings who harboured the émigrés and, behind them, the Habsburg Emperor.
Unlawful belligerents are never entitled to the status and protection accorded members of national armed forces.
Sweden survived the war as a non-belligerent state by following a flexible policy which responded to the political realities of the moment while retaining some freedom of manoeuvre for the future.
The company has taken a belligerent attitude towards the dispute, refusing to negotiate whilst staff remain on strike.
David Hicks, of course, has been charged with three offences - they are conspiracy to commit war crimes, attempted murder by an unprivileged belligerent and aiding the enemy.
The Father Blake, of whom Andy spoke, was more familiarly known by the name of Father Phil, by which title Andy himself would have named him, had he been telling how Father Phil cleared a fair, or equally "leathered" both the belligerent parties in a faction-fight, or turned out the contents (or malcontents) of a public-house at an improper hour; but when he spoke of his Reverence respecting ghostly matters, the importance of the subject begot higher consideration for the man, and the familiar Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life
Traditional peacekeeping missions were deployed only when a conflict had ceased and with the consent of the belligerents.
She murmured something belligerent and turned away. Times, Sunday Times
The rail companies are taking a belligerent attitude towards the disputes.
Some of us are belligerent, some are coaxers of the ball, some delight in hearing the ball smash against the hoardings, others love to steer the ball wide of fielders.
They typically served to monitor ceasefires and supervise truces; occasionally, peacekeeping missions were deployed to keep belligerents apart as in Cyprus in 1964.
That is the cornerstone of his epic career, his attention to detail, his innate perfectionism and his belligerent refusal to be beaten, whatever the opposition.
His team has played a particularly belligerent and aggressive brand of cricket, and I think they're the benchmark against which other international cricket teams have judged themselves.
international law...only authorizes a belligerent to punish a spy under its municipal law
Dot Moxon's expostulatory and belligerent voice dominating the broken murmur of male voices. She Closed Her Eyes
The kids, especially the boys, are aggressive, belligerent, and rebellious.
Beattie can be a belligerent figure, quick of feet but not always of mind on the pitch.
Similar technologies are being applied within the military to subdue belligerents.
But she later changed tack, reverting to a belligerently confrontational stance.
I think officer Crowley shows a lot of courage and class in agreeing to go to the White House to meet the President of the United States and close friend of the belligerent little toad that he arrested last week. Obama to meet this week with professor, officer
They display an intolerant exclusiveness, and a belligerent sense of supremacy vis-à-vis the other.
Male fighting gouramies are extremely belligerent toward each other and they are often bred to fight, as with the fighting cocks.
My current projects include a detailed examination of the origin and history of military commissions and the law of belligerent occupation.
In a fight it could be a communication of how aggressive or belligerent or dominant a lobster is.
In the aftermath of Chaeronea, no one dared to refuse, except for the eternally belligerent state of Sparta. Alexander the Great
When I postulated that there were probably couples out there willing to adopt all the potential babies that are aborted in this country, I got pushback from one particularly belligerent commenter.
Now, perhaps you think Gaza is no longer belligerently occupied. The Volokh Conspiracy » Pollak on Uniquely Israeli Stupidity
It is based upon the customary international laws of belligerent occupation, including the Hague Regulations.
Americans who took passage on belligerent ships after such a proclamation had been issued would do so at their own risk. The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
Gardels: Unfortunately, you can now say "I told you so" about the fruitlessness of negotiations and North Korea's belligerent intentions. Nathan Gardels: Is John Bolton Right About North Korea?
Unlawful belligerents were entitled to legal protection, but the government was free to choose the means of force used against them, as was asserted long after.
The number of newspaper titles published diminished in all belligerent nations as the war progressed, as did the size of those which survived, but circulations often increased.
The laws of the Hague (the laws of war) establish the rights and obligations incumbent on belligerents.
A determined and radical government would rightly ignore the tidal wave of belligerent lobbying from big business that would inevitably follow. Times, Sunday Times
If a foreign unlawful enemy belligerent is actually tried for war crimes before a military commission, he has never enjoyed constitutional due rights under the 5th and 6th Amendments. Balkinization
Whatever concern may have been felt by either of the belligerent powers lest private armed cruisers or other vessels in the service of one might be fitted out in the ports of this country to depredate on the property of the other, all such fears have proved to be utterly groundless. State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
In any event, the practices and usages of war which gradually ripened into recognized customs with which belligerents were bound to comply, recognized the crimes specified herein as crimes subject to punishment.

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