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Strength Thru Oi !, an album compiled by Bushell and released in May 1981, stirred controversy, especially when it was revealed that the belligerent figure on the cover was a neo-Nazi jailed for racist violence ( Bushell claimed ignorance ).
President Chávez also asked the Colombian government and their allies to recognize the FARC as a belligerent force, arguing that such political recognition would oblige the FARC to forgo kidnapping and terrorism as methods of civil war and to abide by the Geneva Convention.
As a further proof, Dumézil cites the story of Tullus Hostilius ( the most belligerent of the Roman kings ), who was killed by Juppiter with a lightning bolt ( indicating that he did not enjoy the god's favour ).
Germanicus later, in 15, raided their lands in revenge, but Rome eventually responded to the Chatti's belligerent defense of their independence by building the limes border fortifications along the southern boundary of their lands in central Hesse during the early years of the 1st century.
The deniability can be important to keep the state actor from being tainted by the actions, to allow the state actor to negotiate in apparent good faith by claiming they are not responsible for the actions of parties who are merely sympathizers, or to avoid being accused of belligerent actions or war crimes.
The embargo was imposed in response to violations of U. S. neutrality, in which American merchantmen and their cargo were seized as contraband of war by the belligerent European navies.
Sympathetic to the British plight but hampered by the Neutrality Acts, which forbade arms sales on credit or the loaning of money to belligerent nations, Roosevelt eventually came up with the idea of " Lend-Lease.
The final military dictator, Manuel Noriega, had been belligerent toward the USA culminating in the killing of a US Marine Lieutenant and US invasion ordered by President, George H. W. Bush.
Hal Jordan disagreed with this selection upon seeing Stewart's apparently belligerent attitude, but the Guardians stood by the decision and the recruit quickly proved himself.
The measurement can apply either to casualties inflicted by a particular belligerent or to casualties in the conflict as a whole.
The original definition meant that this was handed over by one of two belligerent parties to the other or seized as security for the carrying out of an agreement, or as a preventive measure against certain acts of war.
Most writers on international law have regarded this method of preventing such acts of hostility as unjustifiable, on the ground that the persons taken as hostages are not the persons responsible for the act ; that, as by the usage of war hostages are to be treated strictly as prisoners of war, such an exposure to danger is transgressing the rights of a belligerent ; and as useless, for the mere temporary removal of important citizens till the end of a war cannot be a deterrent unless their mere removal deprives the combatants of persons necessary to the continuance of the acts aimed at ( see W. E. Hall, International Law, 1904, pp. 418, 475 ).
It may be noticed, however, that the hostages would suffer should the acts aimed at be performed by the authorized belligerent forces of the enemy.
After 1945, as a result of the general prohibition on use of force imposed by Article 2 ( 4 ) of the UN Charter, armed reprisals in time of peace are no longer legal, but the possibility remains of non-armed reprisals ( also known as countermeasures ) as well as belligerent reprisals during hostilities when the law of international armed conflict ( LOIAC ) is violated.
In the case of belligerent reprisals, apart from the three factors in the Naulilaa case, a warning must also be issued beforehand ; once the other party has stopped violation of LOIAC, belligerent reprisals must also be terminated ; and the decision to engage in belligerent reprisals must be taken by a competent authority.
He launched yet another magazine, The Enemy ( three issues, 1927 – 29 ), largely written by himself and declaring its belligerent critical stance in its title.
Suitably impressed by Spanish firearms and artillery, Rajah Humabon suggested that Magellan project power to cow Lapu-Lapu, who was being belligerent against his authority.
The cold war emphasized a theory of Balance of power in international relations and, due to the possession of thousands of nuclear weapons by each belligerent, used the doctrine Mutual assured destruction.
However, they find the commissioner badly wounded by recently belligerent natives.
Sharaf writes that the visit began a period of investigation by the FDA, triggering belligerent responses from Reich, who called them " HIGS " ( hoodlums in government ) and the tools of red fascists.
He is often unshaven, frequently intoxicated ( indicated by a prominent red nose and dishevelled clothing ), lazy, freeloading, belligerent and confrontational — but just as frequently lovable ( he always refers to Flo as " pet ", and will instantly " bop " anyone who dares to be rude to her ).

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When he discovered they had received from the Company's Court of Directors no permission to live in India, coupled with the fact that they were Americans who had been sent to Asia to convert `` the heathen '', he became more belligerent than ever.
Scorpionmen are belligerent folk, who look like a sort of scorpion-human centaur. They are described as stupid, vicious and live in violent matriarchies with a religious emphasis on devouring.
It often refers to someone who is belligerent, unreasonable, rudely intrusive or aggressive.
This limitation is imposed to ensure the safety of both the Priest-Kings, as well as the other indigenous and transplanted beings on Gor, who would otherwise possibly come to harm due to humans ' belligerent tendencies.
In the Lefay Fragment, Digory is born with the ability to speak to trees and animals, and lives with an Aunt Gertrude, a former school mistress with an officious, bullying nature, who has ended up as a Government minister after a lifetime of belligerent brow-beating of others.
" A person who was a part of or substantially supported al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces that are engaged in hostilities against the United States or its coalition partners, including any person who has committed a belligerent act or has directly supported such hostilities in aid of such enemy forces.
Those who told Jesus this may have expected him to say that their deaths were punishment for their rebellious and belligerent behavior.
An unlawful combatant or illegal combatant or unprivileged combatant / belligerent is a civilian who directly engages in armed conflict in violation of the laws of war.
A lawful combatant is a person who commits belligerent acts, and, when captured, is treated as a POW.
An unlawful combatant is someone who commits belligerent acts but does not qualify for POW status under GCIII Articles 4 and 5.
A combatant who is a POW, and who is subsequently paroled on the condition that he will not take up arms against the belligerent power ( or co-belligerent powers ) that had held him as a prisoner, is considered a parole violator if he breaks said condition.
Mayer argues that Joseph was an excessively belligerent, expansionist leader, who sought to make the Habsburg monarchy the greatest of the European powers.
Because of his determination to create art according to his own principles rather than those of his patrons, he is also noted for being one of the earliest romantic painters working in Britain, though as an artist few rated him highly until the fully comprehensive 1983 exhibition at the Tate Gallery led to a reassessment of this " notoriously belligerent personality ", who emerges as one of the most important Irish Neoclassical artists.
Left alone after all the other mourners have gone home, Alf, the belligerent old curmudgeon who always treated his wife appallingly, gently touches the handle of her ( now empty ) wheelchair and sobs " Silly old moo!
Extremely belligerent, these tribes attacked traders who traveled to Zacatecas in newly created routes.
* Leonard " Oz " Osborne ( Jimmy Nail )-Oz, in the original series was a loud, belligerent, abrasive, drunken Geordie lout who showed no fidelity towards his wife or concern for his son.
Among the band is Will Scarlet ( Slater ), who holds a belligerent grudge against Robin and does not hesitate to show Robin his true feelings.

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To compensate for his diminished stature, Tom has a belligerent, confrontational attitude, daring his larger opponents to try something.

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For his skits on Uncanny Film Festival, Busey drew on his American Hero, belligerent, know-it-all character.
When World war II started, Viceroy Linlithgow had unilaterally declared India a belligerent on the side of the Britain, without consulting the elected Indian representatives.
In October 1935, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt invoked the recently passed Neutrality Acts and placed an embargo on arms and munitions to both sides, but extended a further " moral embargo " to the belligerent Italians, including other trade items.
The United Kingdom insisted on special status as a longstanding belligerent during the war, concerned that if it were treated equally with the devastated continental powers it would receive virtually no aid.
As the ship sets out on its projected 75-year journey home, the crew passes through regions belonging to various species indigenous to the Delta Quadrant, such as the barbaric and belligerent Kazon ; the organ-harvesting, disease-ravaged Vidiians ; the nomadic hunter-race the Hirogen ; the fearsome, scorpion-like Species 8472 from a fluid-space realm ; and most notably the Borg, as Voyager has to move through large areas of Borg-controlled space in later seasons.
Later mainland possessions, which extended across Lake Garda as far west as the Adda River, were known as the " Terraferma ", and were acquired partly as a buffer against belligerent neighbours, partly to guarantee Alpine trade routes, and partly to ensure the supply of mainland wheat, on which the city depended.
* April 16 – Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law abolishes privateering and regulates the relationship between neutral and belligerent and shipping on the high seas.
It regulated the relationship between neutral and belligerent and shipping on the high seas introducing new prize rules.
* 1935-Neutrality Act of 1935 ; when war breaks out prohibits all arms shipments ( allowing shipment of oil, steel, chemicals ); U. S. citizens can travel on belligerent ships only at own risk
Further, U. S. ships were prohibited from transporting any passengers or articles to belligerents, and U. S. citizens were forbidden from traveling on ships of belligerent nations.
He prevailed over the isolationists, and on November 4 the Neutrality Act of 1939 was passed, allowing for arms trade with belligerent nations on a cash-and-carry basis, thus in effect ending the arms embargo.
Following the sinking of the U. S. destroyer on October 31, many of the provisions of the Neutrality Acts were repealed on November 17, 1941: merchant vessels were allowed to be armed and to carry any cargoes to belligerent nations.
Most belligerent powers cut back severely on production of non-essentials, concentrating on producing weapons.
However, Clark remained belligerent in his attacks on the Trudeau government, angrily clashing with the prime minister in Parliament.
The mood in the Republic now turned very belligerent, also because in August English vice-admiral Robert Holmes during his raid on the Vlie estuary in August 1666, destroyed about 130 merchantmen ( Holmes's Bonfire ) and sacked the island of Terschelling, setting the town of West-Terschelling aflame.

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