Warlike

Definition

warlike /'wↄ:laÇk/ adj (က) စစ္တိုက္ဝါသနာပါေသာ။ စစ္ေရးကြၽမ္း ေသာ။ a warlike nation. (ခ) စစ္လိုလားေသာ။ ရန္လိုေသာ။ warlike politicians ❍ He entered the meeting in a warlike frame of mind. အစည္းအေဝးခန္းထဲ ေမာင္းတင္ၿပီး ဝင္လာသည္။

Examples

1. ‘Once the forbidding territory of the warlike Mackenzie clan
2. the estate land was acquired in the 19th century by the Earl of Zetland
3. who later sold most of it to the Whitbread brewing family.’
4. ‘They are large
5. muscular people
6. with a warlike and aggressive culture
7. and the English found them much more difficult to control than the Aborigines.’
8. ‘To be sure
9. the acts of that day had a warlike aspect.’
10. ‘The obvious choice is North Korea
11. an aggressive and warlike nation ruled by a mad and brutal dictator known for supporting terror and building weapons of mass destruction.’
12. ‘The next morning it became clear that Ireland was in the grip of a warlike state of national emergency.’
13. ‘As an island nation
14. and at times a pretty warlike one
15. it should come as no real surprise to find that Britain has some of the finest and most dramatic coastal castles and fortifications in the world.’
16. ‘When he assumed power in 27 BC
17. Augustus was confronted with the problem of subduing the Alpine region
18. whose warlike tribes threatened the communications between Italy and Gaul.’
19. ‘It stands for the ritualised
20. knee-jerk
21. automatic use of warlike TV debate formats
22. which polarise people but do not always
23. in the end
24. give a clear indication of where the key players stand.’
25. ‘The president's inaugural address
26. in talking about universal freedom
27. talks about all sorts of possibilities for this country
28. not just warlike ones but peaceful ones.’
29. ‘According to the historian William McNeill
30. Western Europe during the so-called Age of Faith was the most warlike civilization on earth
31. with the exception of Japan.’
32. ‘Where group contact occurred
33. sometimes it must have involved rivalry
34. disputes
35. threats
36. intimidation
37. intervention
38. invasion
39. conquest
40. and other hostile and warlike interactions.’
41. ‘Forte is like a man with breasts
42. aggressive and warlike but somehow gentle.’
43. ‘China's prime minister did not mention the warlike tension between India and Pakistan as he was welcomed to New Delhi yesterday
44. making the first State visit by a Chinese leader in more than a decade.’
45. ‘He wanted to create a ‘pure’
46. warlike Italian nation and believed in the pseudo-science of eugenics.’
47. ‘Some of the warlike clans among the Irish were constantly engaging the British along the border of the Pale and several of the leaders of the government groups had gone back to England.’
48. ‘Political leaders were more honest about the warlike nature of nations a hundred years ago.’
49. ‘Our country's first-hand experience with the reality of warlike violence will prove
50. our best leverage against engaging in yet another senseless bloodbath.’
51. ‘Others cite the allegedly more benign characteristics of Spanish American Indians in contrast to the threat to English settlement posed by the more warlike Indians of North America.’
52. ‘France had been conquered in less than six weeks
53. America didn't like getting involved in world affairs
54. and Japan was a warlike nation hell-bent on conquest.’
55. ‘Tacitus described them as a strong and warlike nation
56. and for ten years or more the Romans fought to contain rather than conquer them.’