act of aggression
collocation in Englishmeaningsofactandaggression
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act
noun
uk/ækt/us/ækt/
something that ...
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aggression
noun[U]
uk/əˈɡreʃ.ən/us/əˈɡreʃ.ən/
spoken or physical behaviour that is threatening or involves harm to someone ...
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(Definition ofactandaggressionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Taken together, these factors provide a reasonable explanation for the initialactofaggression.
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Improved readiness that was clearly visible would help to deter any country contemplating anactofaggression.
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The first was simply to acquiesce in anactofaggression.
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Thisactofaggression—unprovoked, illegal and unforgivable—must be reversed.
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The sections built beyond the 1967 borders amount to anactofaggression.
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They are matters of fact —a breach of the peace and anactofaggression.
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We shall resist anyactofaggression, whichever side may commit it.
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The present machinery might therefore operate as follows in the face of a clearactofaggression.
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The danger of that is that somebody has to decide when theactofaggressionoccurs.
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That is the supreme and crowningactofaggression.
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Let there be no doubt in anyone's mind that an urban motorway is an offence, an imposition, anactofaggressionon a community.
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He said that surprise was no virtue when one country made anactofaggressionagainst another.
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I said that the firstactofaggressionagainst democracy came in 1931.
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We were not advised of theactofaggressionin advance—point two.
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We have established that in the post-war world anactofaggressionmeets with collective resistance.
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That attack has been described as anactofaggression.
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It used to be said that it was extremely difficult, if not impossible, to find a definition of anactofaggression.
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Sanctions do not mean war if they are certain to follow on anactofaggression.
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Or are they to wait until theactofaggressionhas taken place?
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