Even the most belligerent relative can't argue with these numbers.
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Drug War at its most belligerent: crop eradication, crippling local economies,
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For their part, Iran's most belligerent hardliners would be similarly delighted to test Mr Trump's resolve.
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They figured prominently in Franklin Roosevelt's most belligerent attacks on the "economic royalists" who opposed him.
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The world's most belligerent rogue state going from fission to fusion weapons is ominous to say the least.
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I tried hard to understand his frustrations, even when he was at his most belligerent, and did my best to alleviate them.
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By doing nothing, the administration empowered the most belligerent elements in the Chinese political system by showing everybody else in Beijing that aggression worked.
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Bolton, one of Washington's most belligerent hawks, sports a hairy caterpillar over his upper lip that makes him look like an escapee from a 1970s porn film.
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The US in the middle Indeed the party looking most belligerent at the moment is the one Pyongyang is seeking to alienate from Seoul -- the United States.
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As politicians have discovered, there are tradeoffs involved in allowing the loudest and most belligerent voices -- those prone to speaking in Sith-like absolutes -- to define the terms of debate.
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It's evident in Cambodia's approach to the South China Sea, where they've really been the most belligerent state in terms of blocking resolutions from Asean on the South China Sea.
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Even David Warner and Brendon McCullum, two of the most belligerent T238 openers around, hit only about 220% of the balls they face for maximums, according to data from CricViz, an analytics company.
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Now, of course, the specter of nuclear conflict looms larger than it has since the Cold War, with two of the world's most belligerent and darkly ridiculous leaders engaging in a terrifying, increasingly incomprehensible war of words.
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Even the most belligerent of the charter networks — I'm thinking Success Academies in New York City, where founder Eva Moskowitz famously carries on a feud with Mayor de Blasio and the unions — is reaching out with lessons-learned.
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Iran is the single-most-belligerent-actor in the region, and its actions display both a commitment to regional hegemony and a deeply held view that conciliatory gestures signal weakness either on Iran's part or on the part of its adversaries.
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Yet Trump seems to have little use for either institution, which are both already facing pressure from the populist economic forces that the President-elect harnessed in the US election as well as Moscow's most belligerent behavior since the end of the Cold War.
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Frank Bruni Remember the good old days — by which I mean just a few weeks ago — when there was hope and talk that Donald Trump's 36-year-old son-in-law would play the angel to Steve Bannon's devil, tempering the president's policies and keeping his crudest and most belligerent tendencies in check?
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His son, Vuk Rupnik, was an active officer of the Slovene Home Guard and commander of one of the most belligerent units in the militia. His son-in-law, Stanko Kociper, later emigrated to Argentina and wrote a book in which he tried to vindicate Rupnik's role in the war.
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Cáin Lánamna (Couples Law) . 2005. Access date: 7 March 2006. Classical literature records the views of the Celts' neighbours, though historians are not sure how much relation to reality these had. According to Aristotle, most "belligerent nations" were strongly influenced by their women, but the Celts were unusual because their men openly preferred male lovers (Politics II 1269b).
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Following the calamity of this Parliament, James became even more determined to avoid the legislative body. He had four of the most belligerent MPs, including Hoskins, sent to the Tower of London for seditious speech. The same was done for Hoskins's encouragers a few days later. Royal favour was extended to the king's supporters in Parliament, even the Speaker, who received a knighthood and a Serjeantry.
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He plays a "bumbling hero". In 1937, in an article in Motion Picture magazine, Fields analyzed the characters he played: > You've heard the old legend that it's the little put-upon guy who gets the > laughs, but I'm the most belligerent guy on the screen. I'm going to kill > everybody. But, at the same time, I'm afraid of everybody—just a great big > frightened bully .
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Harold is mistaken as an orchestra leader and comically leads the band in a tune, all the while trying to avoid being struck by a trombonist's instrument . The most belligerent of Harold's rivals eventually puts him is a violent choke hold after he sees Harold come out of Bebe's dressing room. Harold is rescued by the police who inform him that the suitor who was choking him was a wanted man.
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One of the greatest differences with prior wars, was the enormous increase in the mobility of armies. This was the first big war in which whole formations were routinely motorized; soldiers were supported with large numbers of all kinds of vehicles. Most belligerent powers severely decreased production of non-essentials, concentrating on producing weapons. This inevitably produced shortages of related products needed by the military or as part of the military–industrial complex.
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During the conflict with Argentina over the Beagle Channel, Merino was one of the most belligerent junta members. He only reluctantly accepted Pope John Paul II's peace proposal, telling him, "I only signed the treaty because I'm Catholic and I respect Your Holiness. If I weren't, I wouldn't have signed it." Also, he ordered the commander of the surface fleet "go there... and win the war". In 1980 law N 3,500 was dictated to the decree that created the new provisional system.
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On the same day, socialists also rallied behind the war in France, where socialist acquiescence became known as the union sacrée. The following day, the Parliamentary Labour Party in the United Kingdom voted to support the government in the war. The socialist parties in most belligerent countries eventually supported their country's war effort. Even some on the left of the international socialist movement such as the German Konrad Haenisch, the French Gustave Hervé and Jules Guesde (the latter becoming a government minister), and the Russian Georgi Plekhanov supported this policy.
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In his book Intellectuals, historian Paul Johnson shows little sympathy for Wilson's tax troubles: > They had given him a frightening insight into the harshness of the modern > state at its most belligerent — the tax-gathering role — but this should > have come as no surprise to an imaginative man who had made it his business > to study the state in theory and in practice. The person who is in the > weakest position to attack the state is he who has largely ignored its > potential for evil while strongly backing its expansion on humanitarian > grounds and is only stirred to protest when he falls foul of it through his > own negligence. That exactly describes Wilson's position. In his book he > tried to evade his own inconsistencies by arguing that most of his income > tax went on defence spending induced by Cold War paranoia.
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1168), sponsoring arbitrage committees (the one set up was headed by parochial priest, with employers represented by an Integrist lawyer and employees by a Carlist lawyer, pp. 1154, 1175) and animating charity organisations (1165). As a result, Azcoitia was one of few towns with no socialist trade union (1163); the most belligerent one, Sindicato Católico Libre, was inspired by social-Catholicism of Gafo (1170). The author concludes that "el obrero de Azcoitia se nos revela como ideologicamente tradicionalista y conservador en su cultura y costumbres, modelando estos rasgos sus actitudes politicas y comportamiento"; for Renteria, there is some information on their social basis in Zabaleta Garcia 1992 Single and not necessarily representative cases of Integrist politicians holding positions of power suggest that they were very down-to-earth administrators; Juan Olazábal as member of the Gipuzkoan Diputación Provincialsee numerous references to Olazabal's activity on autonomy in Idioia Estornés Zubizarreta, La construction de una nacionalidad Vasca.
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