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- noun Plural form of
belligerency .
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Examples
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I'm sure the religious right squirms with pleasure at Rudy's belligerencies, especially when the Republicans "debate" how best to atomize Iran.
Top Conservative Group Wants To Know: Does Rudy Agree With Robertson On 9/11? 2009
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He accepted Olbermann's curtsies with tacit grace and O'Reilly's belligerencies with amused forebearance.
Barack Obama appears -- simultaneously -- on Olbermann and O'Reilly and I have some advice for Obama. Ann Althouse 2008
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Help us understand that the roots of today's genocidal belligerencies go way back to a history of nefarious foreign policy.
Confessions: Cindy re Casey, Bill Moyer re Vietnam, Jimmy Carter re Funding Terrorism 2007
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But his belligerencies were not at all militaristic.
On the Stairs Henry B. Fuller
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He mended more rapidly than might have been expected, and soon began to feel the resurgence of those belligerencies which are proper to the nature of the healthy young male.
On the Stairs Henry B. Fuller
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Having a knowledge of British-Muslim tensions, he would ask how these policemen could adhere to their creed's diktats, proscriptions, and belligerencies against non-believers, and at the same time uphold "freedom of expression and choice."
The Rule of Reason 2010
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So, what I would propose is an opening section which briefly lists all the various major belligerencies that occurred since the war to end all wars, i.e. WWI & the failed Treaty of Versailles.
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