Bashir's belligerence has been balanced by pragmatism, particularly when under external pressure.

What his team lacked in quality, they made up for with belligerence.

There was no let-up in his belligerence at the Balclutha police station.

The old tradition demands that national loyalties and ancient belligerence should continue.

Such uni-dimensional thinking sends a frisson of rubicund belligerence down American spines.

The look of horror on Martin's face stirred Mrs. Morse to belligerence.

My fellow-fighters and I were astonished at the belligerence of this foreigner.

Then treat those who have deliberately drunk themselves into belligerence or incoherence.

The authoritarian leader's belligerence has fired up Communist Party-controlled state media.

In people-stuffed Manhattan, belligerence may not be the best path forward for Cruise.

The belligerence fled her voice, and all I heard was eagerness to help.

However, their posture was more one of reassurance than of belligerence.

There is a whiff of belligerence around the industrial relations scene these days.

From the smouldering ruins of lower Manhattan, the belligerence must seem utterly contemptible.

What she would have to deal with was his defensive belligerence.

Despite the Trump administration's volatility and belligerence, the dollar keeps rising in value.