warlike

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• Over time, however, Nixon’s rhetoric changed, and efforts became decidedly more warlike, with increased focus on using jail time to curb use.

• So sure, running primaries against people like this can be called warlike acts.

• Sending anything more warlike than a progressively increasing amount of American military aid and advisers was not in the cards.

• One education professor said the song taught millions of children that "the only real patriotism is warlike activity."

• The president's Oval Office address on the oil spill sounded more warlike than his speeches on Afghanistan.

• They are “peaceful” because they are not warlike now—again, another ambiguity perpetrated by the regime.

• In a warlike age this peacefulness of a monarch was the great and supernatural phenomenon.

• What the armor-bearer was for the warlike races of old, such is the tchbukdi for their degenerate descendants.

• There had been a round year of peace negotiations and futile truces, with warlike preparation in the background.

• It was quite expected that his progress would be challenged, hence the warlike preparations.

• At the same time, Robert must have heard of Edward's warlike preparations by land and sea.