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- noun Absence of
belligerency , especially as an agreement between countries not to go towar (perhaps less amicable thanneutrality ).
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sharon talked of a nonbelligerency pact, persuaded that Palestinians were not prepared to genuinely recognize the Jewish people's right to their homeland and that peace without such recognition at best could only be a guarded lull.
Israel & Palestine: Can They Start Over? Agha, Hussein 2009
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The concept would be nonbelligerency, something long term with no timetable but with a list of expectations.
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There will be others running for office in 1996 who succumbed to the temptations of a self-indulgent time (Bob Dole is already sniping at Phil Gramm's nonbelligerency in the 1960s).
Lawyering The Truth 2008
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Instead, he says, Israelis and Palestinians should strive for a "nonbelligerency accord" based on the current alignment in the West Bank and Gaza, economic cooperation and the long-term possibility of establishing a "Palestinian entity."
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One is an armistice agreement that will provide a situation of nonbelligerency.
'A Deep Friendship' 2007
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One is an armistice agreement that will provide a situation of nonbelligerency.
'A Deep Friendship' 2007
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There should be an interim agreement or a situation of nonbelligerency.
'I Can Make Peace' 2007
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In 628, the Prophet Muhammad agreed to a year-long hudna, hudnat Hudeibiya, which he used to reorganize his forces and then, unilaterally, to break the truce and utterly destroy his erstwhile partners in nonbelligerency.
'Israel: The Threat from Within': An Exchange Morris, Benny 2004
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Shimon Peres put a very high value on this, and a statement of nonbelligerency would gain support for the transfer of arms to Jordan that the king saw as symbolically and substantively important.
Turmoil and Triumph George P. Shultz 1993
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Suddenly word came that four of the TWA hostages had been kept behind, still held by Hezbollah who were said to be seeking a “nonbelligerency” guarantee from the United States.
Turmoil and Triumph George P. Shultz 1993
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