aggression

[əˈɡreʃn]

Definition:
1. A disposition to behave aggressively.
2. A feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack.
3. Violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked.
4. The act of initiating hostilities.

Use 'aggression' in a sentence:

1. If AI does eventually prove to be our downfall, it is unlikely to be at the hands of human-shaped forms like these, with recognisably human motivations such as aggression.
2. Discussion on Modern Japanese Aggression Against Chinese Culture and Education.
3. The great spirit forged during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea is a "precious spiritual wealth" that will inspire the Chinese people and the Chinese nation to overcome all difficulties and obstacles, and prevail over all enemies.
4. So long as we are firmly united, we need fear no aggression.
5. I think she's going to get a little aggression out.
6. They say aggression in boys is also caused by mothers.
7. None of these soldiers want to die in a war of aggression.
8. The raid was an unjustifiable act of aggression.
9. Brooks called on world opinion to condemn their policy of aggression.
10. It is said that aggression is caused by hormones.
11. Further, children whose fathers are warm, loving, and accepting toward them have higher self-esteem and lower rates of aggression and behavior problems.
12. Southern historians clung instead to a notion of the South's unanimity in the face of Northern aggression.
13. The military exercise was condemned as an act of aggression.
14. He talked of defending small nations, of ensuring that aggression does not pay.
15. They have been developing something called aggression.
16. According to psychodynamic theory, the best ways to prevent harmful aggression may be to encourage less harmful aggression.
17. The documentary For the Sake of Peace brings the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea alive on screen.
18. Khrushchev ebulliently promised to supply rockets for the protection of Cuba against American aggression.
19. When Alfred Adler first postulated in 1908 that there existed an inborn instinct of aggression Freud argued against it.
20. Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf said yesterday there was no danger of the country going to war with neighboring India, but that Pakistani forces would be ready to repel any aggression.
21. When Jonathan Freedman, a social psychologist at the University of Toronto, reviewed the literature, he found only 200 or so studies of television-watching and aggression.
22. His relentless aggression bludgeons you into seeing his point.
23. By this means, they signal their level of aggression or readiness to mate.
24. People decide whether they will act aggressively or not on the basis of factors such as their experiences with aggression and their interpretation of other people's motives.
25. The Great Wall was once used to defend against military aggression.
26. Take a long walk to release all that pent-up aggression.
27. Essentially, it is a new tool of the United States for purpose of economic aggression and political overthrow.
28. Aggression is a kind of innate survival mechanism, an instinct for self preservation, that allows animals to defend themselves from threats to their existence.
29. In the case of human aggression, violence cannot be simply reduced to an instinct.
30. If you make aggression pay, this becomes the law of the jungle.
31. Black bear cubs use trees for defense, whereas brown bears and polar bears, which regularly inhabit treeless environments, rely on aggression to protect their cubs.
32. An offshoot of the biological approach called sociobiology suggests that aggression is natural and even desirable for people.
33. Aggression is by no means a male-only trait.
34. When he weeded out "the most doubtful measures of aggression", only 28% supported a connection.
35. War of aggression launched by fascists has brought scourges to mankind but also enlightened people throughout the world.
36. A statement on Amman Radio spoke of bestial aggression and a horrible massacre.
37. Their aggression is, although cute in a way, that at most they will try to snatch a sandwich from you at a picnic.
38. Naked aggression and an attempt to change frontiers by force could not go unchallenged.
39. According to a recent survey of 1600 Internet users in the UK, web rage is on the increase, causing short-temperedness and even physical aggression bashing of keyboards and over-zealous mouse-clicking!
40. We will smash any aggression.
41. Hitherto, the main emphasis has been on the need to resist aggression.
42. Sport became the perfect outlet for his aggression.
43. He channels his aggression into sport.
44. Aggression is often the result of fear.
45. It is not likely that, for any species of monkey, crowding increases aggression as significantly as was seen in rats.
46. Last month he signed a new non-aggression pact with Germany.
47. We will never accomodate ourselves to acts of aggression and intervention out of consideration for our relations with the power in question.
48. This aggression is the real issue the world should be concerned about. We want to keep that in focus.
49. The research shows that computer games may cause aggression.
50. Numerous biological structures and chemicals appear to be involved in aggression.
51. War may be a natural expression of biological instincts and drives toward aggression in the human species.
52. The aggression of a bully leaves people feeling hurt, angry and impotent.