China, it seems, cares more about other countries' reaction to North Korea's belligerence than the belligerence itself.
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Neoconservative chickenhawking was a taut, narrative-driven, overconfident belligerence aimed at creating a U.S.-led world order; Trumpian chickenshittery is incoherent, cowardly belligerence, calculated, if at all, to glorify the Don.
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This belligerence is fueling disquiet, and not just outside China.
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The message, he told listeners, is that outright belligerence isn't necessary.
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Rajneeshpuram Mayor Swami Krishna Deva reacted to this action with belligerence.
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Patty never experienced belligerence from her son—instead, she saw shame.
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His hotheaded belligerence is a grave threat to our national security.
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And it might suit the increasingly nationalist belligerence of our age.
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That might seem fanciful, given Mr Trump's belligerence, but for two things.
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Yet Iran's belligerence is not the outcome of a book-keeping exercise.
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The broth is good, delicate and substantial at once, profound without belligerence.
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The only appropriate posture is thus one of constant and maximal belligerence.
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There is concern that the North might mark the occasion with belligerence.
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Several issues, like Pyongyang's belligerence, have carried over into the new year.
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Zhirinovsky is Russia's equivalent of Trump in terms of bluster and belligerence.
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Mrs May has cited Russia's renewed belligerence as one justification for updating Trident.
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They admire his belligerence, his anger, his refusal to apologize or back down.
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In other words, McCain balanced nationalist belligerence with a sense of international responsibilities.
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The memory of past belligerence recedes in the face of fresh threats. Indeed.
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North Korea's growing armed belligerence is a strategic opportunity for American multinational Honeywell.
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"This whole thing was driven by anger and belligerence, not fear," Moore said.
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Hancock compensates by eliminating sex appeal altogether, replacing it with stubborn, grouchy belligerence.
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Combative and aggressive, her style mimicked Russia's increasing belligerence, both at home and abroad.
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Outraged by the army's belligerence, a group of Kachin youths held protests in Myitkyina.
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In Mr. Freedom, every dig at American belligerence, hypocrisy, excess, and ignorance hits true.
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The alliance may have provoked Putin through ignorance, arrogance or negligence — but not belligerence.
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Neither Tillerson nor Haley can save American foreign policy from Trump's belligerence and bullying.
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After his bellicosity and belligerence, I daresay they have little personal affection for him.
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The North Korean leader's belligerence is part of a "conscious strategy," according to Einhorn.
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Here's what you need to know: • Nuclear brinkmanship, belligerence and now a book review.
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Hoffa, for all his windy belligerence, is also petty to the point of neurosis.
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What's more, Turkish belligerence in Syria is revealing the cracks within the NATO alliance.
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Like Mr. Trump, President Bill Clinton was confronted by North Korean belligerence early on.
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North Korea has unnerved the international community this year with an escalating campaign of belligerence.
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Combative and aggressive, her style has mimicked Russia's increasing belligerence, both at home and abroad.
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Such messages are bids to meet the growing belligerence in Britain at least half way.
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"We must meet this belligerence with unequivocal condemnation and with clear, unequivocal consequences," he said.
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Trump's poorly calibrated belligerence could land us in a war with North Korea very abruptly.
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Instead, Republicans here have shown nothing but belligerence for minorities and disregard for voters' rights.
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Mr. Macron seconded Mr. Trump's assertion that North Korea's nuclear belligerence is dangerous and unacceptable.
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True, he was no peacenik, as is evident from his belligerence toward Iran and Venezuela.
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It is hard to tell precisely when and whether this cycle of belligerence will be broken.
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It all represents an extraordinarily rapid change following previously frozen relations—and North Korean nuclear belligerence.
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Thus, it seems time to consider a time-honored tactic to respond to Iran's belligerence: Decoys.
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If Washington wants the global free market to work, it must intervene to blunt Beijing's belligerence.
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Soleimani's death represents for supporters of the Islamic regime the ultimate American belligerence against their cause.
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Highlighting nuclear proliferation and increasing belligerence from North Korea, Goldfein stressed the importance of U.S. deterrence.
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He also showed early flashes of belligerence toward competitors, an auger of the conflicts to come.
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It also highlights Britain's strained effort to balance its Iran policy between American belligerence and European emollience.
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The view in Berlin is that Mr Renzi's belligerence is intended to burnish his image at home.
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How about Donald Trump's interrupting Hillary Clinton more than 50 times with his belligerence in their debate?
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China's undisguised belligerence toward Taiwan — in words and actions — has given Ms. Tsai's campaign a new vigor.
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A new report about the SoftBank Vision Fund describes a culture of &aposvintage Wall Street macho belligerence.
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Predictably, rather than bringing Iran's leaders to their knees, America's belligerence has caused them to stiffen their spines.
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Kim has threatened Japan, South Korea and the United States, and his belligerence has increased in recent years.
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China, North Korea's sole major ally which nevertheless opposes Pyongyang's weapons programmes and belligerence, has appealed for calm.
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In truth, the lack of oversight on the current cease-fire framework provides useful cover for Azerbaijan's belligerence.
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His belligerence toward Cuba at the moment may just reflect the fact that Cuba is in the news.
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But once the Games are done, many fear North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un will resume his belligerence.
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" The Union-Tribune said Trump should not be president because of his "belligerence, casual cruelty, incoherence on policy.
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Amid rising economic belligerence, in particular from America, rich-world companies will naturally think twice before investing abroad.
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It has likely left at least half the planet outraged at the ham-fisted belligerence of the process.
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Given these prospects, you might think that someone will persuade the incoming administration to rethink its commercial belligerence.
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Once again, chest-beating conservatives jeered at Democrats for refusing to concede that Trump's belligerence had borne fruit.
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North Korea has always reacted to the Ulchi exercises with belligerence and often its own demonstrations of military capability.
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"It quickly gained a reputation as a foreclosure machine … OneWest was notorious for its belligerence and for its cruelty."
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After the humiliating fall of Debaltseve, it is unlikely that Kiev will ignore increasing belligerence from the rebel side.
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All the players are full of wine too, and their belligerence is almost palpable in the hot afternoon sun.
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Handling Mr Kim's belligerence—and the regime's eventual demise—will be a huge test of great-power co-operation.
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But his belligerence and unrestrained conduct in reality is making it hard for Congress to fulfill its constitutional role.
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"We can't endorse Trump for reasons we've documented repeatedly: belligerence, casual cruelty, incoherence on policy issues," the board writes.
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Wilson's frame needs to fill out and he has to approach each possession with a certain amount of belligerence.
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His belligerence and narcissism, even solipsism, show us how not to act if we want to play them well.
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Trump's cavalier attitude toward the use of nuclear weapons, killing civilians, and torture and his overall belligerence are frightening.
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Hodges, the US Army commander in Europe, rejects the argument that the United States has provoked the Kremlin's belligerence.
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A nation of erratic disruption and "America First" belligerence has supplanted the underwriter of the post-1945 global order.
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As he so often has with Mr. Kim, Mr. Trump veered between conciliation and belligerence, often in dizzying succession.
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" Gardner said the bill sends a clear message to the world that America "will not tolerate patterns of belligerence.
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The president signed-off to install THAAD missile inceptors in South Korea as a response to Kim's repeated belligerence.
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This is partly why belligerence and military brinksmanship became a regular feature of North Korean policy in recent years.
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It has said its own security has been compromised and that North Korea's recent belligerence is due to this deployment.
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The band didn't preach their anti-capitalist agenda with the same belligerence as Public Enemy or Rage Against the Machine.
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Bosses hope that the belligerence on trade is a ploy borrowed from "The Apprentice", and that stable agreements will emerge.
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Meanwhile, in our roles as citizens of the political commonwealth we are conscripted into a polarized climate of ideological belligerence.
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He didn't know it at the time, but his past belligerence was like a target on the shoulder of stag.
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Within days of Trump's election, Mexican political analysts were predicting that his open belligerence toward Mexico would encourage political resistance.
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There is, in the first instance, the fog of hyperventilating belligerence and distrust that has been fanned by information technology.
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The same belligerence that looked like strength when Trump was on top will look defensive and bitter when he's not.
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This belligerence toward the W.T.O. comes even though the United States has won more W.T.O. cases than any other country.
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Must we endure another dose of the grandiose self-pity and authoritarian belligerence that have characterized the DC-Warner Bros.
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Trump, for all his belligerence and bluster, is viewed by many who have been close to him as acutely insecure.
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"This sudden new belligerence from the U.S. appears to have caught markets on the hop," CMC Markets' Michael Hewson said.
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Innocent bystanders and commuters find themselves caught in the fray and risking injury, and the belligerence can also target teachers.
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If the administration's belligerence on trade unsettles American firms and forces them to "onshore" production, Asia would be an early victim.
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U.S. President Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign was peppered with "America First" rhetoric and a dollop of belligerence about other countries.
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Firstly, despite the usual flourish of belligerence and flamboyance in Trump's announcement, not much is likely to happen for several months.
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His thin-skinned belligerence toward every challenge, rebuke, or criticism would promise the nation a series of a high-voltage quarrels.
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The traveler's belligerence may have added fuel to the fire, though by no means could he have anticipated its horrifying outcome.
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North Korea's continued belligerence was a blow to China, which has failed to keep its ally in check despite persistent warnings.
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North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile capacities pose an increasing threat to the world, and sanctions have not deterred its belligerence.
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Its belligerence, they conclude, appears calculated to maintain a weak, isolated government that would otherwise succumb to the forces of history.
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It is hard to match the foolishness of his mix of cuts to domestic services, counterproductive tariffs and confused rhetorical belligerence.
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Still, his reluctance to put forth specifics is understandable and even desirable, given the incoherent belligerence of many who oppose Trump.
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"President Trump criticized North Korea's continued belligerence and emphasized that Pyongyang's actions are destabilizing the Korean Peninsula," the White House said.
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But if that same president's belligerence also becomes a problem, threatening lucrative business deals, they may try to rein him in.
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Belligerence on trade, it turns out, is pretty much a one-man affair: It's what Trump wants, and that's about it.
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The leaders of Syria, North Korea and Iran – and others like them – need to understand that their belligerence will not succeed.
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Non-belligerence agreements are an interim step between the secret relations Israel has with those countries now and full diplomatic relations.
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I don't mean the sort of assertive behavior expressed through bluster and belligerence, which is really more a statement of insecurity.
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News analysis: Mr. Trump's speech reflected his conflicting instincts for belligerence and disengagement in foreign policy, our national security correspondent writes.
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He had also questioned the usefulness of NATO, and the concept of an alliance for common defense to counterbalance Moscow's belligerence.
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By enabling Kim Jong Un's international belligerence, Russia could alleviate some of the international scrutiny on Moscow's own activities, analysts said.
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Now even Kuwait seems to be running scared of Saudi belligerence; it has just signed a military cooperation agreement with Turkey.
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The weapon that North Korea tested, with characteristic belligerence, on the Fourth of July, had a range of perhaps 6,700km (see article).
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Tusk has described Trump&aposs abrasiveness as a challenge for Europe equal to China&aposs expanding economic power or Russia&aposs belligerence.
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Despite tensions over Russian belligerence elsewhere in the world, its aspirations in the north have so far given little cause for concern.
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An American retrenchment, if it materialises, would add to the unease the two countries feel at China's rise and North Korea's belligerence.
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The fun moments on Lil Yachty's debut LP Teenage Emotions were often undercut by attempts at gloomy semi-seriousness or unconvincing belligerence.
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Pence expects to talk about the "belligerence" of North Korea at stops in Tokyo, Jakarta and Sydney, the White House adviser said.
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Using Taiwan as a bargaining chip is no way to counter Beijing's belligerence and would be a tragic mistake to America's interests.
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But for the most part, his belligerence and incoherence was treated as a point of fact, rather than an unprecedented horror show.
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President Donald Trump's lawyer strangely combined belligerence with concessions when he was interviewed on Sunday by George Stephanopoulos for ABC's This Week.
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The opposition was in disarray, and his popularity ratings were picking up again, his hawkishness apparently vindicated by North Korea's mounting belligerence.
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And he spooked foreign investors with his anti-Western belligerence and meddling with the central bank to keep interest rates artificially low.
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Beijing's undisguised belligerence toward Taiwan, along with protests in Hong Kong over the mainland's steady encroach, gave her campaign a new vigor.
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Investors are accustomed to belligerence from Trump before he dials down his rhetoric, said Luca Paolini, chief strategist at Pictet Asset Management.
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Central to this is Iran's longstanding belligerence towards Israel, and by extension the United States as Israel's primary source of external support.
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But polling and focus group research alike have consistently found that many of them are uncomfortable with Trump's demeanor, language and belligerence.
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Years of economic punishment for nuclear belligerence haven't stopped the reclusive regime from managing a decent track record at international sporting events.
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In any discussion of how to handle the increasing belligerence of North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, attention usually turns to China.
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Take a new path toward peace, prosperity and international acceptance, or continue further down the dead alley of belligerence, poverty and isolation.
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To them, the US response was thus a unilateral American retreat from the proper position of maximal and unflinching belligerence toward Iran.
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Questions about what this means in the context of the election, where Pyongyang's increased belligerence has been a key election talking point, abound.
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Trump has fulfilled their demand for more belligerence toward Russia; Pompeo now affirms the very anti-WikiLeaks theories that they'd so intently propagated.
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China is North Korea's sole major ally but has been angered by its nuclear and missile programs and is frustrated by Pyongyang's belligerence.
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The move surprised many seasoned Iran experts familiar with Tehran's belligerence, particularly given the president's campaign pledges to scrap the porous agreement altogether.
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But by invoking a little-used national security loophole to justify his belligerence, he may be opening an even bigger can of worms.
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He couldn't see a few moves ahead to realize that his belligerence toward China could have consequences the TPP was created to address.
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The next chapter of our so-called "drug war" is developing quietly, while political belligerence and rhetoric mask the reality of the future.
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To make this a permanent structure, the next step is a peace treaty — an end to almost 70 years of belligerence and tensions.
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North Korea's acts of belligerence aren't insane outbursts, but deliberate gestures grounded in careful observations about how the outside world responds to it.
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But Iran's compliance is tenuous, and further belligerence from the US could give Tehran a reason to stop abiding by the deal's limitations.
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In statements, Iranian leaders have reacted with both belligerence and diplomatic restraint to a series of American actions that they see as provocative.
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While Harmison had gone too far in his belligerence, Ponting had been reminded of what England thought of him in no uncertain terms.
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"Anger" and "Belligerence" are responses to the election of Donald J. Trump, and to the feminist debate that has been simmering ever since.
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Vox asked a number of G.O.P. senators to explain what Graham-Cassidy does; the answers ranged from incoherence to belligerence to belligerent incoherence.
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Coates raised the initiative for non-belligerence agreements, told them the Trump administration supports such a move and asked what their positions were.
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If this is right, expect the usual propaganda belligerence in state media or low-level provocations like artillery and short-range missile drills.
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Because just as Iran's belligerence is increasing, much of the Western world is going out of its way to appease the Islamist regime.
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Shaped by an era of denouement, Italian neorealism diffused the belligerence of warmongering into a romanticization of the country's laborers and emerging middle class.
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With that belligerence comes the inevitable ax that will cut the government's involvement in our personal decisions and put the onus back on us.
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"Sooner or later, they all break in the face of threats from the imperialists," he said, pleading with the U.S. to reconsider its belligerence.
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A debate is under way about how best to respond to North Korea's belligerence, says Richard Haass, President of The Council of Foreign Relations.
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The other important topic likely to be discussed will be North Korea's increased belligerence, as demonstrated through its recent spate of ballistic missile tests.
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On top of once-in-a-lifetime scoring ability, Ovechkin brings a physicality and straight up belligerence that sets him apart from other legends.
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After a year of domestic chaos, shocks from the Russia probe and belligerence abroad, Trump is less restrained and making more waves than ever.
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But with Russia's continued belligerence, front-line governments, spearheaded by Poland and the Baltic states, pushed for a more robust posture this time around.
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Speaking to his cabinet on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iranian belligerence was the main destabilizing factor in the entire Middle East.
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SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has long cultivated an image of defiant belligerence, punctuating its propaganda and diplomacy with colorful threats, insults and bluster.
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For all its Orwellian blather, the Kim family dictatorship has survived this long by being coldly rational, even as it projects wild-eyed belligerence.
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This belligerence has resonated with the conservative Muslims who feel alienated from the West and resentful of the growing Islamophobia that they see there.
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Beijing's belligerence presents an existential threat to Taiwan, a country that Chinese leaders have long vowed to take by force if they deem necessary.
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Those images are worlds away from the surreal carnage Trump describes in stump speeches or the paranoid belligerence he's brought to the US border.
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The White House approached several Arab states to encourage them to reach non-belligerence agreements with Israel, according to Israeli, Arab and U.S. sources.
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United's CEO Oscar Munoz issued a statement blaming Dao's "belligerence" and "refusal to comply" with crewmember instructions for the violence committed upon his person.
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Trump's belligerence toward Muslims generally has some worried that a Trump presidency would damage the close relationship many Arab countries have with the United States.
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The rise of China's military and its expansionism in the South and East China Seas, together with North Korea's increasing belligerence, is helping Abe's push.
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This newspaper would welcome an end to Iranian belligerence and to the regime itself, but a wish based on a hunch is not a policy.
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"The EU finds itself in a world dominated by great power rivalries, Chinese assertiveness and revisionist Russian belligerence," says former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt.
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South Korea worries even more about Mr Trump's belligerence towards North Korea and his talk of pre-emptive military strikes to destroy its nuclear weapons.
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For many election cycles, evangelicals have supported candidates whose campaigns were rooted in the same xenophobia, fearmongering, belligerence and cruelty that Mr. Trump has championed.
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Phallically placed between two soldier boots, Lucas uses the light as a ghostly symbol, a mournful lament of how masculinity can often beget unneeded belligerence.
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Faced with the belligerence of the Trump administration, the court might find renewed support in governments that worry about the threat posed by America itself.
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The nation's nuclear stance is back to belligerence, one more significant turn for the worse in a world suddenly full of turns for the worse.
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The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee slammed President Trump on Wednesday for the "erratic and fiery belligerence" of his remarks on North Korea.
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"The erratic and fiery belligerence of his statements and tweets do little to defuse the situation and threaten to make a bad situation worse," Rep.
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Opponents of the Iranian nuclear deal argue that Iran is watching North Korea's belligerence to see what they might be able to get away with.
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The xenophobic belligerence of the Trump administration singling out and indiscriminately targeting Muslims will in fact vastly increase the animus toward innocent Americans around the globe.
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And the first step to answering that threat is to understand that Russian belligerence is not a sign of resurgence, but of a chronic, debilitating weakness.
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Perhaps, as his approval ratings remain dismal, he has decided to pander exclusively to his base, which seems to prize his antic belligerence above legislative achievement.
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Aside from his frothing belligerence on the use of nukes, LeMay was hard to place politically: He was an early environmentalist and supporter of abortion rights.
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And after suggesting Asian allies handle their own defense, he's reaffirmed the US commitment to Asian security, particularly in the face of growing North Korean belligerence.
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But President Trump, on the other hand, has seemed at odds with his own administration, repeatedly and publicly expressing his support for Saudi's belligerence against Qatar.
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The American withdrawal from the deal was never going to correct Iranian behavior by itself, but it stopped the dangerous practice of rewarding Tehran for belligerence.
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We should negotiate trade issues with Canada, Mexico and Europe as friends and allies resolving differences with mutual respect and not arrogance, ignorance, belligerence and threats.
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What we do know is that his boastfulness and belligerence and tendency to self-aggrandizement are not only costing America worldwide support, but also isolating it.
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By his account, the movement's combination of belligerence and intellectual sloppiness set him on the path of moderation he urges in so much of his work.
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Beijing's participation in the latest punishment is significant given President Donald Trump's repeated criticism of Chinese President Xi Jinping for failing to contain North Korean belligerence.
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To fight a real across the Rubicon-like takeover of Washington by a belligerent outsider, Trump needs cabinet members who have an actual track record of belligerence.
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While it is likely that the Chinese will surrender the drone after a few days, a toothless US response will only embolden further belligerence on Beijing's part.
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But what links Kavanaugh and Moonves, for me, is their belligerence, their obvious inability to understand what it means that others have accused them of terrible things.
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"It demonstrates once again the regime's belligerence and recklessness of categorically disobeying the international community's resolve to achieve the denuclearization of North Korea," the foreign ministry said.
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The "path to dialogue still remained an option" for Pyongyang and it had the choice between poverty and belligerence on the one hand and prosperity and acceptance.
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Even more subtle signals, from body language, to "code" words, to how long the meetings last, could be used to convey determination, impatience, flexibility, or even belligerence.
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While he is not the first president to speak and act with hubris and arrogance, he has chosen belligerence over diplomacy, bullying over accord, insult over care.
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"You are talking about prolongation of national service in response to ... continued belligerence by Ethiopia," he said referring to Eritrea's neighbor with a population of 215 million.
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President Donald Trump on Monday pledged to "handle" North Korea's belligerence — without saying exactly how he would do so as he faces rising tensions and limited options.
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Shamefully, Congress recently passed a Pentagon budget that handed Trump $738 billion but imposed no constraints on his belligerence toward Iran or his disregard for the Constitution.
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The fact that we must raise such questions indicates what rhetorical belligerence absent follow through is already costing us and will cost our children in the future.
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Flight attendants often have to bear the brunt of these outbursts, which can involve everything from refusing to sit down and buckle up to outright hostility and belligerence.
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Yes. My friends and I spent the price of a used Ford Fiesta in a single day to accomplish our greatest act of blue collar belligerence to date.
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Trump's belligerence has boxed North Korea in—if it were to stop testing intercontinental ballistic missiles now, it would look like it was giving in to Trump's bluffs.
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This strange presidential aesthetic is replicated on the international stage, where we have regressed as a civilized nation from once-dignified and purposeful leadership to ineffectual global belligerence.
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They are mostly about Syria and show a new and unguarded belligerence, with some openly condoning ISIS atrocities, including the beheading in October of 2014 of Alan Henning.
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Ordinarily, liberals would be thrilled to see the architect of last year's tax bill leave the White House, even while the president chooses diplomacy over belligerence with Pyongyang.
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Mr. Duterte not only has refused to condemn the flood of fake news and the belligerence of his online supporters but also has rewarded some of their leaders.
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And by proving that belligerence is not only acceptable but also rewarded, national leaders encourage similar behavior all the way down the line to state and local governments.
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"Risks surrounding North Korea have not disappeared, even as markets appear to take the regime's belligerence in stride," cautioned Mizuho Bank strategist Chang Wei Liang in a note.
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Anxiety and rumormongering among South Koreans that the Trump administration would answer the North's messages of nuclear belligerence with a military strike have intensified over the last week.
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The United States Senate recently approved new sanctions on Russia for its belligerence in Ukraine and Syria, as well as its meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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So the TFA's history highlights the belligerence of some governments; and, alarmingly for those following the pronouncements on trade of the new Trump administration, the importance of American leadership.
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As his star waned, he increasingly sparred with Mr Khamenei, questioning not just the belligerence of Iran's foreign policy, but the very notion of rule by a single cleric.
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But Moscow's belligerence leaves Germans with "a heightened sense of the unpredictability of what the Russians are doing," said Angela Stent, a Russia specialist and professor at Georgetown University.
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He half-justified Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2014, saying that the roots of the conflict lay in "belligerence" from the West and that Vladimir Putin was "not unprovoked".
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The current show revisits those forms on a much reduced scale: "untitled: boundfence; 2548" (222), like its predecessor, stations itself at the exhibition's entrance, but leaves the belligerence behind.
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Tuesday's live-fire drill followed Trump's criticism of North Korea in which he lamented the "continued belligerence" of the country in a telephone conversation with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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The new Trek movies have allowed humor through the door, but it's mostly been a shoulder-punching bro humor, focused on James T. Kirk's belligerence or his bedroom habits.
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And they do this with attuned belligerence, working together to surround human soldiers, who use limited weaponry against their often-unseen enemy, and leaving their bodies slumped, still, empty.
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It seemed designed to offset the reputation he has acquired for belligerence and the flouting of international norms amid Russia's military interventions in Ukraine in 2014 and in Syria.
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But South Korea is more accustomed to belligerence from Pyongyang than Washington, and there is widespread concern that Mr. Trump may make matters worse when he arrives next week.
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Unlike last year, when aides fretted over Mr. Trump's belligerence and bombast, it is his tendency toward comity with the North Korean leader that now worries White House advisers.
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Here's what you need to know: • With alarm spreading across Asia, some U.S. officials continued to follow President Trump's tough — and apparently improvised — line against North Korea's nuclear belligerence.
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" The same countries admonishing North Korea leader Kim Jong Un for nuclear belligerence still shell out large sums of diplomatic aid under the motive of "damage-control diplomacy, i.e.
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Roger Stone's insistence that it doesn't, his belligerence, his pride in his own lies are a threat to our most fundamental institutions, to the very foundation of our democracy.
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Roger Stone's insistence that it doesn't, his belligerence, his pride in his own lies are a threat to our most fundamental institutions, to the very foundation of our democracy.
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Most Republicans, though, have argued the two issues are unrelated or that Iran is watching North Korea's belligerence to see what it might be able to get away with.
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Ms. Craft, who was known in Ottawa for her love of jogging and horses, has also shown an adeptness for soothing the targets of the president's well-known belligerence.
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Even if most of the tariffs go away, Trump's trade belligerence has done lasting damage to America's reputation, and hence to a global economy that depends on American leadership.
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Trump doesn't appear to have much public support for the belligerence: According a new poll, it turns out that 67 percent of Americans don't want to attack North Korea preemptively.
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The case involved Dethorne Graham, a black man from North Carolina, who had suffered a broken foot and other injuries after police officers mistook his diabetic shock for drunken belligerence.
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The White House showed no interest in restraining ICE, so the agency's shameless belligerence became a liability for contractors like Microsoft and Amazon, inspiring a new wave of employee activism.
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There's every reason to believe that Trump will take the wrong lesson from his Syrian adventure and decide that the political benefits of belligerence outweigh the risks to global stability.
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He is often criticized for his alleged belligerence, but his critics forget that he has always warned that Sino-Japanese differences should never be allowed to lead to renewed hostilities.
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"The best thing that they could do is organize against anybody who incites violence, engages in belligerence and vote them down," she said of the Republican presidential front-runner's detractors.
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The Obama administration's hopes that getting Tehran more into the international economy by reducing the sanctions has so far not led to less Iranian belligerence in Iraq, Syria, or Yemen.
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Earlier this year, the Oxford English Dictionary finally added the word hangry, which many of us use to describe the belligerence that overcomes us when we desperately need some calories.
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" New York magazine writer Jonathan Chait lauds the sport as a supervised channel for boys' "chauvinistic belligerence," and a reminder that "not all teenagers are cut out for chess club.
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Yet, that is the fate that awaits many purveyors of drink and food on the front lines of the service industry, and for whom dealing with drunken belligerence is routine.
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U.S. President Donald Trump criticized North Korea's "continued belligerence" and said its actions were destabilizing in a telephone call on Sunday with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the White House said.
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"The American people, the people of Japan and freedom-loving people across the wider world long for the day when peace and prosperity replace Pyongyang's belligerence and brutality," he said.
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His unpredictability and belligerence have instilled fear worldwide: After he tested a "breakthrough" missile earlier this week, he pronounced North Korea a nuclear power capable of striking the United States.
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As we gobble up news reports on the most microscopic details of the roiling theatrics inside the West Wing, we are undoubtedly developing a higher tolerance for belligerence and melodrama.
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This belligerence is likely to further centralize regulatory powers and lead to one-size-fits-all standards treating all states as if they had a Los Angeles in their midst.
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There's a lot of standard-issue Reagan-era belligerence towards the belligerent Russians (imagine that), but with everyone else there's a tight lid kept on all offensive statements, even in private.
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With the blessing of the previous administration in South Korea, the US quickly stepped up the timeline for THAAD's deployment, in large part because of the increased belligerence from the North.
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That would mark a radical break with Japan's pacifist constitution, which bans acts of belligerence—and even the maintenance of land, sea or air forces (notwithstanding the existence of the SDF).
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"Parkdale Cartel" Sean Leon picks up a flow that ebbs from near-whisper to clear menace about his recent flings with success, while Julian Thomas finishes with autotuned, laid back belligerence.
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It is interesting to recall that the Obama administration also sought in its 2015 agreement to return Iran to the normal international community after decades of belligerence, terrorism and nuclear development.
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The Nobel Prize that Obama won immediately after the election surely owed much to the hope that he would be a represent a major break from the belligerence of his predecessor.
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To the stern reminders about the rule of law he has received from Washington, other Western governments and human rights groups, Mr. Duterte has replied with his usual belligerence and profanity.
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Leading with a sly smile, she easily talks dirty but also lets you see the fissures in Nina's demonstrative belligerence, making you wonder where real life ends and the act begins.
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We cannot leave our national security and our families' safety in the hands of a president whose poor judgment, belligerence, vindictiveness and reckless impetuosity constitute an indictment of his mental health.
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"Belligerence" is still in previews, so I have to be a little coy about it, but "Anger" absolutely staggered me — sent me off afterward rethinking my life, examining my own sympathies.
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The first time he emerges from the dispatcher's cage in "Taxi," the audience erupts into shocked laughter, because his height is such a contrast with his character's outsize confidence and belligerence.
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Belligerence is central to his brand, and he is a master practitioner of grievance politics, rallying disaffected voters around the message that the system is hopelessly rigged against them — and him.
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Yet he chose a proponent of belligerence who disdains diplomacy, supports allies-be-damned unilateralism and thinks bombing North Korea and Iran is the best way to neutralize their nuclear threat.
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But so long as the US keeps the threat of war on the table, and alternates between outreach and belligerence in the way Trump has, an unstable situation is made worse.
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Recent reports of Waymo vehicles being attacked with knives and rocks by irate Arizonans were shocking to Metz, who says he has never encountered any belligerence while riding in the autonomous vehicles.
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Though commonly portrayed as a strong ally of the DPRK, China's relations with its neighbor have grown strained in recent years, as North Korea's routine belligerence has vexed the leadership in Beijing.
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The announcer at the Rio Olympic Stadium at least four times during Tuesday's evening competition asked the crowd to be respectful to the competitors, a reaction the Carioca fans' flashes of belligerence.
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Amid plummeting stocks and boycott threats, newly released footage appears to contradict United CEO Oscar Munoz's claim that Dr. David Dao's belligerence left officers with no choice but to forcibly remove him.
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Such belligerence has been fed by the Communist Party's own narrative of history, which credits it as saving China from a "century of humiliation" at the hands of Japan and the West.
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America has long been a country of hate and prejudice, of war and belligerence, but the last week was the latest evidence that there is something new and disorienting and dangerous afoot.
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"The world looks to the United States to lead in responding to the dangerous nuclear belligerence of Kim Jong-un," the lawmakers wrote to Secretary of State Rex TillersonRex Wayne TillersonState Dept.
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Ambling and drowsy, the record finds Earl drained of—or perhaps relieved of—the urgency and belligerence that characterized his early music and drew comparisons to Eminem and the Wu-Tang Clan .
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A day later, Trump is set to attend the opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, a trip that has already caused tension because of Trump's own past belligerence on racial tensions.
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China will keep Taiwan and the U.S. on the defensive, intimidating both sides into negotiating with themselves in the hope that unilateral concessions to China will prevent the possibility of PRC belligerence.
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The reclusive state has maintained a low profile for the past two months and refrained from any nuclear belligerence — its latest act was firing a ballistic missile over Japan on Sept. 15.
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And the GOP leadership held nearly unified support from representatives in blue-collar districts that saw fewer direct gains under the plans but where Trump's cultural and racial belligerence is more popular.
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Just to be clear, I'm not suggesting that Donald Trump has any better idea about what the country needs; he's just peddling another fantasy, this one involving the supposed power of belligerence.
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With the blessing of the previous administration in South Korea, the Trump administration quickly stepped up the timeline for THAAD's deployment, in large part because of the increased belligerence from the North.
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But the subtle distinctions in their economic theories — Sanders's belligerence toward institutions of all kinds, Warren's cautious optimism about capitalism — shine through in Warren's general support for the bank and Sanders's hostility.
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It's an expression of belligerence that transcends time and species, if you allow body language to represent the actual words COME AT ME. Gladiators and Vikings did this, too, in so many words.
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This voter wants leaders tough enough to crack through the reigning dysfunction, and sure enough, Trump's appointments so far represent the densest concentration of hyper-macho belligerence outside a drill sergeant retirement home.
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It is this laissez-faire attitude, which the previous administration called "strategic patience," in response to North Korea's belligerence that is to blame for the current escalation and danger to our national defense.
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And Russia's belligerence in recent years, with its meddling and territorial expansion into Ukraine and its involvement in the Syrian civil war, has its neighbors on edge about the possibility of more expansionism.
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Yet his belligerence was also undeniably an expression of US power since foreign leaders who might not be able to live with Trump but can't live without America tried not to annoy him.
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The strike — against five different targets — also marked the first time the Trump administration used military force in response to Iranian belligerence since Tehran opted for a more confrontational posture in May 2019.
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China's growing military might has replaced North Korean belligerence as the main security threat to Japan, Tokyo's annual defense review indicated on Thursday, despite signs that Pyongyang could have nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles.
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U.S. belligerence on the wall, the hunting down and deportation of undocumented migrants, the destruction of NAFTA and the multiple blows to the Mexican economy could revive intense populism and nationalism in Mexico.
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It shows how isolated the North is from global commerce, as essentially no flights are going in, but also the ways in which its belligerence and weak political political institutions set it apart.
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While Kavanaugh has said he was focused in those days largely on academics, sports and service projects, a number of classmates have come forward painting a far different picture — including frequent drunkenness and belligerence.
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But the elder Kim was seen as a savvy manipulator of the west, who took his belligerence to the brink to gain concessions from the west only to pull back and behave, relatively speaking.
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" In the opinion piece, Mattis and Tillerson said North faces a choice: "Take a new path toward peace, prosperity and international acceptance, or continue further down the dead alley of belligerence, poverty and isolation.
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For the most part, the governments that are ramping up their defense spending are doing so because they feel it is in their immediate interest, given the proximity of Russia and the Kremlin's belligerence.
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Trump's belligerence makes for unpleasant moments for the Republican senators who acquitted him last week after a four-month impeachment drama who face awkward questions about the President's behavior from reporters on Capitol Hill.
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North Korea's return to belligerence appears to reflect frustration that three face-to-face meetings between Trump and Kim, one of the world's most reviled tyrants, have not yielded any easing of US sanctions.
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But for the moment, President Trump's peculiar form of diplomacy — a combination of belligerence, bluster, name-calling and ignorance of history — has somehow produced a possible breakthrough in North Korea that eluded his predecessors.
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Intrigue over election meddling, President Donald Trump's mysterious past ties to Moscow, the Kremlin's international belligerence and toxic diplomatic ties have Washington fixated on Russia as much it ever was during the Cold War.
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After watching Ford's testimony, Kavanaugh's belligerence and Republican senators' tone-deaf reaction to it all during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, my mother felt emboldened to share with me another traumatic incident she experienced.
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With even more countries lambasting it publicly, it's possible that it may choose more belligerence as a way to compel the US and others to lift the mounting economic and political pressure on it.
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Trump appears to have decided to follow through on that threat — a decision that marks one of the strongest signals yet he's willing to hold Russia to account for its belligerence in the region.
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The sanctions have come as a rude jolt to Dandong businesses and traders who had long rolled with North Korea's unpredictability but believed their neighbor's economic reliance on China would keep its belligerence in check.
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Julian, the musclebound leader of the group, lives in a trailer; Bubbles, the awkward brains, in a shed next door; and Ricky, with all his stoned and pompadoured belligerence, mostly in his car out front.
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Although she makes a strong case for belligerence as part and parcel of the human animal, I don't see Bernstein's art as fatalistic — that we are by nature doomed to repeat historical cycles of violence.
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New research suggests not: Simply telling a young man that his alcoholic beverage contains Red Bull can make him feel more intoxicated and increase feelings of daring and self-confidence (a great combo for belligerence).
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Trump needs votes from critics of his racial belligerence As a legislative strategy, this mix of social conservatism, racially infused nationalism and trickle-down economics has mostly held together under Trump, though not without bumps.
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But the "Iran problem" is not limited to weaknesses in the JCPOA in its current form, but also extends to the persistent extraterritorial belligerence of the Iranian regime and to its egregious conduct at home.
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Williamson, a former baseball player whose career ended after a recurring shoulder injury, had a reputation for belligerence and sexual violence; and, though he'd never been convicted in court, he was still a logical target.
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Following the lamentable campaign of 2016, people surely had modest expectations for the manner in which Trump would conduct himself in office, but his belligerence and his mendacity have been astonishing even by his standards.
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It revolves around the parallel stories of Vera, a bored housewife who eventually carries on an impetuous affair, and Eva, an older gymnast who faces fears about her body breaking down and her coach's belligerence.
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He is now a little less damaged ahead of his re-election campaign, a testament to how belligerence, shamelessness and partisanship can undermine any attempt to hold a president or his allies accountable for wrongdoing.
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The tactics themselves often proved quite successful at inflicting misery, but this simply led several countries to double down on belligerence in ways that endanger the United States — and that is particularly true of Iran.
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Sebastián Piñera, the billionaire elected president in 2017, has responded with belligerence, declaring the Chilean government "at war" with the protesters, whom he has described as organized criminals and, worse, as enemies of the state.
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The announcement was delivered on North Korean state television with typical fanfare and belligerence: "We will not give up a nuclear program as long as the United States maintains its stance of aggression," the anchor says.
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If there's an underlying motive to Washington's increased belligerence, including the accumulation of strike assets around the Korean Peninsula, it is to get the Chinese sufficiently rattled that they become serious about sanctions beyond tokenistic enforcement.
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Instead, Trump continues to cozy up to Putin and ignore Russia's belligerence, escalated during Obama's second term, dismissing the legitimacy of multiple investigations into Kremlin meddling in the 2016 campaign to boost the Republican over Clinton.
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The isolated country's belligerence has been a key source of unease: Pyongyang conducted its fourth nuclear test in January and then launched a long-range rocket earlier this month, both in defiance of United Nations resolutions.
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Trump has made reining in North Korea's belligerence one of his top foreign policy priorities, but it's a decades-long problem that has no easy solutions, and Warmbier's death is only going to complicate things further.
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Guardiola, no stranger to a spot of petty belligerence himself, has responded to Seluk by planting his own genitals on the table, exiling Toure from first-team affairs until his agent delivers him a personal apology.
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I suspect I owe my newly acute awareness to two current Off Broadway plays: Mara Nelson-Greenberg's "Do You Feel Anger?" at the Vineyard Theater, and Halley Feiffer's "The Pain of My Belligerence" at Playwrights Horizons.
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By his belligerence, wild claims of conspiracy and slippery partisanship, Judge Kavanaugh showed that he does not, on the basis of his demeanor or temperament, merit a lifetime appointment to the nation's most important deliberative body.
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Errol Louis: Belligerence is no barrier to a Supreme Court appointment The hard lesson of Judge Kavanaugh's elevation to Supreme Court is that being a belligerent, openly partisan nominee is no barrier to becoming a justice.
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No one knows where the threat is going to come from next time or whose side they're going to be on, and for that reason the dismay and disgust at the defendant's belligerence should transcend party.
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This situation is one of inaction and increased belligerence, and it has existed in one form or another (with a short "end of history" break in the early 1990s) since the first atomic weapon was detonated.
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While preparing for the possibility of strikes on North Korean targets we should be applying every other form of pressure we can right now on North Korea to make them pay a price for their belligerence.
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But my sense is that there's also something going on in our society: Many Americans no longer seem to understand what a leader is supposed to sound like, mistaking bombast and belligerence for real toughness. Why?
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You see it in Marco Rubio's highly ideological but analytically groundless belief that dismantling the Iran nuclear deal and adopting a policy of maximal belligerence toward Tehran would advance freedom and peace in the Middle East.
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It is not yet clear whether Donald Trump's belligerence is simply a ploy designed to win trade concessions from China and others, or whether he is prepared to foment economic warfare—and worse—if he is thwarted.
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TOKYO, Sept 27 (Reuters) - China's growing military might has replaced North Korean belligerence as the main security threat to Japan, Tokyo's annual defence review indicated on Thursday, despite signs that Pyongyang could have nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles.
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"Kim is poised to increase his tough talk and belligerence in 21625," predicts Jung Pak, a Brookings Institution scholar and former top CIA analyst on North Korea; she has a book coming out on Kim in April.
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Those Democrats, but also a few Republicans, believe that in the wake of Parkland, many voters have been turned off by the N.R.A.'s hard line, its belligerence and its demands for lock-step loyalty from elected officials.
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General, so much to get into you about, but, again, our options, especially now, given the increased belligerence out of North Korea to talk about satellites and all this other stuff, what do you make of all that?
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SEOUL (Reuters) - For years, investors in South Korea have become accustomed to belligerence and regular missile tests from the country's hostile northern neighbor, but now there's a new factor in their regional risk assessments - U.S. President Donald Trump.
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The other threat is that Trump's belligerence will encourage open revolt in Mexico—that, if the economy collapses, the mild-mannered protesters I saw on Reforma Avenue will give way to a new generation of post-Zapatista revolutionaries.
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The administration's October 2017 decision formally to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a Foreign Terrorist Organization — effectively blacklisting it and more than forty related entities from the global economy — was necessary to contain the regime's belligerence.
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Bolsonaro's belligerence toward minorities is one of his defining political characteristics, one that helped fuel his rise to the presidency in a country primed for a reactionary turn after almost a decade and a half of left-wing governments.
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But what the critics don't acknowledge is that Trump and his national security team have actually scored some real foreign policy wins in the past year that have been sometimes obscured by Trump's penchant for bloviation, bluster and belligerence.
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Paul Krugman So Republicans are going to nominate a candidate who talks complete nonsense on domestic policy; who believes that foreign policy can be conducted via bullying and belligerence; who cynically exploits racial and ethnic hatred for political gain.
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It offered a reminder that Mr. Trump, a candidate whose own communications, whether on Twitter or on television, can often be menacing in tone, has entrusted his White House bid to a political operative whose belligerence extends to physicality.
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Pompeo is likely to look even more myopic in light of the humanitarian tsunami crashing over Iran: His belligerence will only reinforce for Iranians the image of a callous America choosing to bully Iran's regime as its people suffer.
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The documentary revisits some of that movement's early history, its music and its stylized belligerence, though there's only so much it can cram into 80 minutes as it follows Ms. Westwood across the decades and through her manifold transformations.
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In the end, it became clear that the House could not rely on the President to comply with their requests given his overly broad interpretation of privilege, his belligerence and White House counsel's unwillingness to cooperate in good faith.
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Americans might not understand the finer points of trade agreements, but they know whether you're for them or against them — and Trump has made a big bet that no Democrat can outmaneuver him on foolhardy belligerence toward a foreign adversary.
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But when it comes to THAAD, the unpredictable Mr Trump can deliver a reasonable message: the problem is not missile defence, but the belligerence of North Korea which makes it necessary, and which Mr Xi has done too little to restrain.
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We've got to do more to support our partners in NATO, and we have to send a very clear message to Putin that this kind of belligerence, that this kind of testing of boundaries will have to be responded to.
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Mr. Trump's new national security adviser, John R. Bolton, has long been an advocate for Taiwan, writing last year in The Wall Street Journal that the United States should consider a closer military alliance with it to counter Chinese belligerence.
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Indian intelligence agencies also understand that they face an unusual adversary in Pakistan: such is its political frailty that any Indian belligerence tends to strengthen exactly the elements in Pakistan's power structure that are most inimical to India's own interests.
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The lack of staffing comes at a time when North Korea's belligerence has Asia on edge, Venezuela is imploding, Russia is expanding its hold in eastern Ukraine and US and Iranian ships have come close to clashing in the Persian Gulf.
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In fact, Trump spoke about the Russian leader as if he was operating in an alternative reality to the rest of Washington and the West where anger is boiling about Russian election meddling and anxiety about its belligerence is heightening.
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Oscar, who seems like a nice enough guy at first, turns out to be part of the brotherhood of angry dudes who swarm like locusts on social media and elsewhere, spewing a toxic brew of belligerence, entitlement and whining self-pity.
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That threat, which has long driven much of North Korea's belligerence and self-imposed isolation, will remain no matter what deal Mr. Kim strikes with Mr. Trump, said Robert Kelly, a political scientist at Pusan National University in South Korea.
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It is common to argue that Russia and Iran are bad actors in Syria (as indeed they are) and that therefore the US should choose a policy of maximal belligerence toward them because it is the most morally satisfying course.
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After the North&aposs combative statements, there was debate inside the Trump administration about whether it marked a real turn to belligerence or a feint to see how far Kim Jong Un could push the U.S. in the lead-up to the talks.
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He's also kept the Clippers' ship from scuttling as the team saw Blake Griffin succumb first to a quad injury and next to the sort of idiotic late-onset belligerence that can fracture a team, not just the metacarpals of its star player.
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Reclusive North Korea regularly threatens to destroy Japan, South Korea and the United States and has shown no let-up in its belligerence after a failed missile test on Sunday, which followed a huge display of missiles at a parade in Pyongyang.
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In the wake of President Donald Trump's apocalyptic rhetoric last year about a potential nuclear war, North and South Korea are making surprising gestures of goodwill, trying to open up lines of direct communication to sidestep the belligerence of the American leader.
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By going ahead despite escalating demands from Pyongyang, not to mention personal insults, Trump would have seemed too eager for a meeting at any price, making the mistake of previous administrations, which kept negotiating even in the face of North Korean belligerence.
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All this suggests that while the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria -- and the siege of Mosul -- dominate what US TV news airtime is not spent on postelection coverage, the growing belligerence of North Korea under Kim should be getting greater attention.
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And although Watt and his BrewDog partner Martin Dickie hope that it will be a meeting spot for beer lovers on both sides of the border (assuming that they'll be able to find it), there's also a bit of built-in belligerence too.
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The Supreme Court nomination hearings of Brett Kavanaugh and the ensuing storm over the sexual assault allegations made against him have exposed many things, but perhaps most of all, they have exposed the depth, belligerence and intransigence of misogyny in our time.
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But whatever the durable economic impact of the health scare, the renewed trade belligerence from Washington toward Europe was arguably of greater concern as it cut across hopes for a period of global trade peace this year following the U.S.-China truce.
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Nearly four months after his inauguration, he has filled fewer than 30 of the top 500 Senate-confirmed positions in the federal government, is mired in challenges to his domestic agenda and a bog of ethical problems, and faces increased belligerence abroad.
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Whatever it is that the Europeans want, they need to decide whether it's still a good idea to be running interference for an Iranian regime that has increased its belligerence in the past year while also withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal.
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Far from learning on the job or modifying his views to fit the imperatives of America's global role — as did so many of his predecessors — Mr. Trump is falling back on the familiar mix of belligerence and isolationism that fueled his "America First" campaign.
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Reclusive North Korea regularly threatens to destroy Japan, South Korea and the United States and has shown no let-up in its belligerence after a failed missile test on Sunday, a day after putting on a huge display of missiles at a parade in Pyongyang.
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North Korea regularly threatens to destroy Japan, South Korea and the United States and it showed no let-up in its belligerence after a failed missile test on Sunday, a day after putting on a huge display of missiles at a parade in Pyongyang.
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But the question is not whether America is in retreat; it's whether these nations can effectively check Trump's belligerence and pursue global stability apart from the United States For there's little dispute that Trump has turned America into a destabilizing force in the world.
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" — Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas "A man utterly unfit for the position by temperament, values and policy preferences … whose personal record of chicanery and wild rhetoric of bigotry, misogyny and misplaced belligerence are without parallel in the modern history of either major party.
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His threats to raise barriers to the movement of goods and people, his rejection of the Paris climate change accord and his belligerence toward North Korea have convinced the gathering's wealthy and mostly liberal delegates that the United States is giving up on global leadership.
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So is an emphasis on zero-sum relations with all nations, a disdain for allies, a status quo position of belligerence and uncooperativeness, a strategy of using leverage and bullying to extract concessions from other countries, and an innate suspicion of the international order.
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The other crucial audience for Iran's announcement on Wednesday, in addition to Europe, was the Iranian people and, specifically, the critics who have been frustrated at what they viewed as Mr. Rouhani's impotence when confronted with American belligerence and European helplessness over the past year.
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The combination of escalating tensions with Beijing, over its belligerence in the South China Sea, and continued U.S. commercial engagement of that country, indicates an insufficient U.S. concept of national security and a resultant failure to protect and promote U.S. interests at home and abroad.
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Japan stands in lockstep with President Trump and President Moon Jae-in of South Korea in support of talks between the U.S. president and the North Korean leader and the continuation of the maximum pressure policy that has appeared to soften North Korea's belligerence.
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JUST a week into what could prove a long and grinding trade war launched against China by the United States, a curious feature of the conflict has already emerged: China will not, for now at least, dip into its traditional armoury of rhetorical bluster and belligerence.
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Former Senator Rick Santorum told The Washington Post that "the focus will come off NATO and will move squarely onto the U.N." The implication here is that Trump has a certain store of natural belligerence and the key is to get it focused on the right target.
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" (Conclusion: yes.) In April, Wonkette went even further back, chronicling Cruz's Princeton and Harvard years in a post entitled "Portrait of a Young A**hole," a tale of a younger Cruz's classroom misogyny, belligerence at pizza shops, and refusal to associate with anyone at "lesser Ivies.
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Speaking of Xi, it probably is equally clear to China that their belligerence in the South China Sea, their aggressive building of artificial islands for military bases, and their threats of dominance to U.S. allies in the region, will not be tolerated by the Trump administration.
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But it's a kind of silliness with real and potentially dire consequences, as the candidates, one by one, promised militarism and an official policy of belligerence, speaking to a world that remembers the last time America tried that and earnestly fears the consequences should it happen again.
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As seen on the face of Halley Feiffer, the writer and star of "The Pain of My Belligerence," that smile lights up the stage like an emergency flare in the opening seconds of this fraught comedy of anguish, which opened on Monday night at Playwrights Horizons.
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Here's what you need to know: • Washington and Pyongyang have exchanged heated words, but behind the North's belligerence and defiant pursuit of nuclear weapons, some analysts see a leadership anxious to avoid a war it can't win, and careful to leave itself a rhetorical escape route.
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Over all, the Chinese leadership — which is accustomed to belligerence from North Korea, its estranged ally — does not believe Mr. Trump would actually carry out his threat to strike North Korea, said Yun Sun, a senior associate at the East Asia program at the Stimson Center.
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To conservatives in South Korea's crisis-racked government, the antimissile system is exactly the kind of strong action needed to counter the North's belligerence and demonstrate unity with Mr. Trump, who had suggested during the campaign that Asian nations needed to do far more to defend themselves.
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In the meantime, it can highlight its capacity to inflict further reversals on the US.North Korea&aposs nuclear program continuesTrump&aposs belligerence toward North Korea in the first year of his presidency had some observers fearing that the US could be on the brink of war.
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Because the only appropriate posture toward Iran is one of constant belligerence, and because all US foreign policy is really just a means for demonstrating the president's personal toughness or lack thereof — remember that the world is just a schoolyard — this was thus a major and unforgivable violation.
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But it also argues that Iran is exploiting loopholes in the deal, and accuses the previous administration of adopting a "myopic" focus on the nuclear deal, and failing to confront Iran's belligerence in the region, including its support for radical groups like Hezbollah and for Houthi rebels in Yemen.
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Tillerson hasn't had to weigh in on the issues likeliest to dominate his time as secretary of state, from the war against ISIS to how to deal with China's increasingly aggressive actions in the South and East China Seas to the growing belligerence of nuclear-armed North Korea.
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Because the only appropriate posture toward Iran is one of constant belligerence, and because all US foreign policy is really just a means of demonstrating the president's personal toughness or lack thereof — remember that the world is just a schoolyard — this was thus a major and unforgivable violation.
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Disentangle the United States from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which have played a pernicious role (along with Israel) in encouraging belligerence toward Iran (the Senate took a landmark step in the right direction a few days ago by voting to block weapons sales to Saudi Arabia).
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" Although the goal of designing privacy-boosting technology is laudable, and in that sense "we need people like him," Sirer continued, "an adversarial mindset can merge into belligerence, healthy skepticism can blur into paranoia, especially when coupled with other, divisive narratives, such as racism or a victim mentality.
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To get its upper-caste Hindu members to treat the lower-caste members and supporters as equal is rather difficult but necessary for the B.J.P. The persistence of caste discrimination has resulted in the emergence of aggressive Dalit groups whose leaders mirror the belligerence of the upper-caste politicians.
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It's tempting to see the show, which seems to bring out the obstinance and belligerence of its contestants, as being born of the fractious period the United States has just been through, except that it's a variation on a series seen some years ago in England and other countries.
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The episode not only marks the latest chapter in the increasingly bitter struggle between Iran and America—which made a final effort to seize the ship hours before she set sail—but also highlights Britain's increasingly strained effort to balance its Iran policy between American belligerence and European emollience.
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"It would be wrong to say that markets are not taking any notice, but the relatively muted responses of yen, won and risk assets globally suggests that a sense of fatigue on this belligerence is creeping in" Rob Carnell, Asia head of research at ING, said in a note.
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Like "Constitution," which scrutinizes the nation's founding document to see whose interests it leaves out (initially at least, anyone who wasn't a white male property owner), "Anger" and "Belligerence" examine a culture constructed to sympathize with men, to value them more highly, to see women as inherently less deserving of consideration.
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"Both in terms of constitutional law and in practice, for the President to take military action there's a lot of precedent if the perceived act of belligerence puts the national security of the United States at risk," added Zakheim, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and lawyer at Covington and Burling.
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The ghoulish victory lap Trump took after learning about the mass killing at a gay night club in Orlando on Sunday is completely consistent with his overall obliviousness to the fact that the boisterous belligerence and self-aggrandizement that helped him win the primary won't serve him just as well in the general election.
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The human predisposition, or more accurately, the predisposition of the human male toward belligerence across a spectrum of potential conflicts is reflected in the title of the show — not the singular War but the plural Wars; while much of the imagery deals with combat, militarism, and civil strife, it also touches on boxing, sex, and unsettled interior states.
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"If the Government decides in the face of EU belligerence to cut and run and leave part of the UK languishing in the stifling embrace of the EU, then that would be totally unacceptable to us and many others in the House of Commons," Wilson said, warning of parliamentary defeat for any deal that crossed his party's red lines.
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From start to finish — not just of the game itself, a master class in draining an opponent first of its rhythm and then of hope, but all 10 days of the occasion — this was a quintessential expression of Mourinhismo, that potent mixture of belligerence, shrewdness and public relations that makes him such a compelling, if divisive, character.
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Over the course of the next five months, the Kim regime would go on to launch a further six missiles, each test nudging the country closer to war with the US. But if 2017 was a year of extreme belligerence from the North Korean leader, the first six months of 2018 have been the personification of the Pyongyang charm offensive.
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There have been troubling signs of Bobby's dark side — his lying and belligerence at home, his unseemly attachments to parlor women, his heavy drinking — but squint a little bit and it's not hard to see Frank Sobotka, the character Chris Bauer played on the "The Wire," a union man whose humanity pushed through his corruption like a flower through cracked concrete.
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North Korean belligerence also justifies the strong US presence in South Korea, the strengthening of missile-defense capabilities in South Korea and Japan that undermine China's nuclear deterrent, the eventual revision of Article 9 of the Japanese constitution which outlaws war as a means to settle international disputes and underpins Japan's postwar pacifism, and increases the likelihood of a nuclear arms race in Asia.
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Within days of the president's talk of a military option, Maduro filled the streets of Caracas with loyalists to condemn "Emperor" Trump's belligerence, ordered up nationwide military exercises and threatened with arrest opponents he said were plotting his overthrow with the U.S. "Mind your own business and solve your own problems, Mr. Trump!" thundered Nicolas Maduro, the president's son, at the government-stacked constituent assembly.
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Within days of the president&aposs talk of a military option, Maduro filled the streets of Caracas with loyalists to condemn "Emperor" Trump&aposs belligerence, ordered up nationwide military exercises and threatened with arrest opponents he said were plotting his overthrow with the U.S. On Wednesday, Maduro cited the AP&aposs article to reaffirm his long-standing claim that the U.S. has military designs on Venezuela and its vast oil reserves.
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Mr. Putin, who has a talent for shifting rapidly between proud belligerence and butter-wouldn't-melt-in his-mouth reasonableness, was speaking just a week after the release by the British authorities of detailed forensic evidence relating to the Salisbury poisoning that pointed to involvement by Russia, or at least by two men who arrived in London from Moscow on Russian passports two days before the Skripals were poisoned.
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"Belligerence," which opens on April 22, unspools over three presidential Election Days: 2012, when Cat, a magazine writer played by Ms. Feiffer, is having her first date with Guy, a sexy but poisonous married man who warns her repeatedly that he's bad news (for one thing, he's a biter); 2016, when she has been subjugating herself to him for four dysfunctional years; and 2020, when we see the crippling damage their relationship has wrought.
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Liam Gallagher's drawl replaced with a moneyed whine; a breakdown wedged into the chorus; school-hall riffs—there's a level of sheer belligerence here, one you imagine could make Oasis proud on some level, before realising that if Liam Gallagher were to ever actually hear this, Cartel would get called "a bunch of trust fund kids in eyeliner who need to go outside or kiss a girl" on Twitter, followed by a knockout "AS YOU WERE LG X" blow.
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"In the long term, this is going to be toxic for the GOP" But through his belligerence on these issues, Trump also risks stamping the GOP as a party of racial intolerance precisely as the millennial generation, the most diverse generation in American history, is passing the predominantly white baby boom as the largest generation of eligible voters; the post-millennial generation that will enter the electorate behind them starting in 2020 is even more diverse.
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If Moon allows the comfort women issue to dominate his relationship with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, that could hamper international efforts to rein in the nuclear belligerence of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. "We will see a fracture develop in terms of U.S.-South Korea-Japanese cooperation in dealing with the North," explained Stephen Nagy, a senior associate professor at Tokyo's International Christian University and distinguished fellow at Canadian think-tank The Asia Pacific Foundation.
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North Korea said Friday that it&aposs still willing to sit for talks with the United States "at any time, (in) any format," a remarkably restrained and diplomatic response, from a nation noted for its proud belligerence, to U.S. President Donald Trump&aposs abrupt cancellation of a summit with the North&aposs autocratic leader, Kim Jong Un. The statement by Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan, a longtime nuclear negotiator and senior diplomat, which said the North is "willing to give the U.S. time and opportunities" to reconsider talks that had been set for June 12 in Singapore, could be driven by a need to use the summit to ease crushing international sanctions, or by a determination that a summit with the mercurial Trump is the best opportunity the North will ever have to elevate itself, and its nuclear program, to equality with its archrival.
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