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I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.
Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.
My father, he wouldn't be belligerent or violent. It was never that way.
I get a little belligerent when not enough protesters show up at my appearances.
As a rough rule of thumb, I would say the smaller the pond, the more belligerent the fish.
I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent.
Though I was not a belligerent kid, I do not think I ever passed up a good opportunity to fight.
Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.
A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
I was probably that obnoxious kid in first-year university who would try to win a political debate by just, you know, being belligerent.
Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.
This nation has given the world an object lesson in the whole duty of neutrals, which is to furnish an outlet for the wrath of a belligerent who is annoyed because he cannot defeat his opponent.
History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements that do more harm than good.
In the face of a rising China, along with authoritarian regimes from Brazil to the Philippines to Turkey to Russia, and the constant presence of belligerent non-state actors, we need to reform our military to deal with asymmetrical threats.
A person with 'oppositional conversational style' is a person who, in conversation, disagrees with and corrects whatever you say. He or she may do this in a friendly way, or a belligerent way, but this person frames remarks in opposition to whatever you venture.
It seems to me that many of the belligerent Jewish movements that were built upon hatred of Arabs - and I'm not only talking about Lieberman, but within the Likud as well - grew out of the patronizing socialist attitude that said, 'They'll be there, and we'll be here.'
Every country is like a particular type of person. America is like a belligerent, adolescent boy; Canada is like an intelligent, 35-year-old woman. Australia is like Jack Nicholson. It comes right up to you and laughs very hard in your face in a highly threatening and engaging manner.
You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear.