Nevertheless, Löfven has little in common with the UK's more bellicose union heavyweights.

But in the last year or so, the tone has changed -and become more bellicose.

Before kick-off the atmosphere inside the Emirates was more a low-level anxiety than anything more bellicose.

The more bellicose and warlike of our politicians have threatened the prime minister, Raila Odinga, who looks fragile.

The more bellicose the investigation the better, the better copy: Nothing surpasses a grandstanding member of Congress for raw material.

Bunyan found his in the theology of his sect, appealing more strongly than orthodoxy to a nature more bellicose than Izaak's.

But as we become more bellicose and kind of ruthless online, does that actually translate to something other than cable television?

Even if the papers in Haiti were more bellicose, their impact would be slight, because few can afford them or read them.

A democracy which has power is almost always more bellicose than one which is excluded from its due share in the government.