It was the fashion nowadays to hide aggressive actions under the cloak of pacifism and to pretend that these warlike acts served the cause of peace.

A pirate is a person who commits warlike acts at sea without the authorization of any nation.

Withholding the elixir is a warlike act against myself.

When they commit warlike acts for nothing--without plan, without conquest, apparently for the sheer joy of destruction?

This is an example of vintage diplolingo: the creative use of synonymy to put a peaceful spin on a warlike act.

Two violations of international law, both defined by treaty as warlike acts, have recently occurred.

Every sailor enforcing a blockade knows the term of art for the warlike act of stopping a ship suspected of carrying contraband: board and search.

I am not certain that the ritual itself is a warlike act, Captain.

This was that he was himself too old and creaky to sit a horse, brandish a sword, and perform other warlike acts.

It was the third time in history that a warlike act prompted postponement of major league games.