belligerents

In almost every simmering armed conflict in the world today, one of the belligerents is Islamic.

Waldo Jaquith - A hypothetical. 2006

At the same time, German propaganda sought to alienate Americans and British from each other, and both these Western belligerents from the Soviets.

Propaganda 1995

Standing like a buffer state between the main belligerents, it would have been miraculous had no differences of opinion arisen in the opposing camps as to what the Danes owed to the respective nations at war.

Denmark and the War 1918

"Hands off, no passage to belligerents," is a cardinal element of neutrality, by the Hague Tribunal, by international law, and by common sense.

The War 1914

Well, gentlemen, that question of the rights of belligerents is a question of facts; and I put it to you whether, with five millions of freemen declaring themselves, in States and collectively, an independent nation, we could pass it over as a petty rebellion.

Earl Russell on American Affairs 1863

None of the belligerents were adequately prepared to handle the unanticipated POW burden they carried, which increased steadily as the war progressed.

Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I 2008

This comparison of the _communiqués_ of the belligerents, which is seen in these pages to be no light task, naturally forms but a small part of

Hilaire Belloc The Man and His Work C. Creighton Mandell 1922

In Europe, during the year 1781, the two leading questions which dominated the action of the belligerents were the protection, or destruction, of commerce, and the attack and defence of Gibraltar.

The Major Operations of the Navies in the War of American Independence 1877

They were partisans; it lacked but a hair that they should be called belligerents; it were idle to try to deny they were the most dangerous of spies.

A Footnote to History Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

Benton, and the Senators interfered, Mr. Tazewell, who was in the chair, calling the belligerents to order.

Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis Benjamin Perley Poore 1853