aggressor nation
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aggressor
noun[C]
uk/əˈɡres.ər/us/əˈɡres.ɚ/
a person or country that starts an argument, fight, or war by ...
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nation
noun
uk/ˈneɪ.ʃən/us/ˈneɪ.ʃən/
a country, especially when thought of as a large group of people living in one area with their own government, language, ...
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(Definition ofaggressorandnationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Noaggressornation, however big that nation might be, could now hope to escape retribution.
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Let it be remembered that so far as we know, the technique of anaggressornationtoday is not openly to declare war.
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The difficulties and the complexities are vast and overwhelming, and are due to the havoc created by the traditional historicaggressornation.
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First, and obviously the most compelling, is the power to deliver against anyaggressornationan immediate and overwhelming counter-attack.
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Anaggressornationcan fix a date three or four years ahead.
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Anaggressornationcould declare a certain zone of the sea to be a danger zone and say that merchant ships should not enter it.
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That implies air bases all over the world from which they can act and which are immune against sudden attack by any potentialaggressornation.
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We agree that no one method can ensure peace if anaggressornationwishes to commit an act of aggression.
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There will always be two sides to every quarrel, and it will never happen that all the other nations will be combined against oneaggressornation.
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The only means that they had of discovering who was theaggressornationwas the propaganda that their own statesmen had been responsible for setting up.
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Any nation that is anaggressornationis in an entirely different position from a nation such as ours which does not want to fight anyone at any time.
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In this arrangement, nations agree to protect one another by rising up against anaggressornation, should it seek the usurpation of territory or the destruction of its neighbors.
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The aggressor nations, when they prepared for this war, adopted what they believed to be the most efficient form of government for their aggression.
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I do not believe it is right and proper that we should be continually inviting aggressor nations to come into negotiations.
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As things stand to-day, without another penny on armaments, the peace nations are more powerful than the aggressor nations.
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Point 8 provides guarantees for further peace by the disarmament of aggressor nations.
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Throughout the history of mankind we have had a continuous series of aggressor nations, one coming up and taking the place of the other.
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