Hezbollah has tightened its grip on southern Lebanon, and is flexing its muscles in Beirut.
China has complained loudly about America's recent muscle-flexing, particularly its joint military exercises with South Korea.
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And now the group is flexing its muscle in politics and especially in the courts.
Perhaps in compensation for its business losses, the army seems to be flexing its muscles.
China is watching what it sees as Japan's flexing of its military muscle with considerable unease.
It is unclear whether it is over some silly local muscle-flexing, or a deliberately engineered provocation.
Meanwhile, Microsoft has been flexing its political muscle in new ways to help its cause.
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Most important, Mr Christie has discovered that flexing political muscle is not always the answer.
The region's rapid pace of development, combined with workers' new-found muscle-flexing, has led to some industrial unrest.
Perhaps this timely announcement is Bloomberg flexing his muscles and testing the waters for a planned run.
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Meanwhile, in the Shiite-dominated south of Lebanon, Hezbollah has been flexing its muscles to aid the Syrian government.
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But Democrats speaking out against the pork could just be flexing their muscles, said CNN contributor Roland Martin.
For ordinary people interested in flexing the power of the Internet, this means the fun has just begun.
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This time around, Sega is flexing its marketing muscle by striking partnerships with major carriers and phone maker Samsung.
He took off a glove and extended his hand, fingers spread and flexing.
Sin City isn't the only place where chefs are flexing their creative muscles.
Sitting in his heavily guarded Baghdad palace, Hussein dreams of flexing that power.
The trend of flexing pricing power for corporate players can be seen in commodities, special chemicals and even coffee.
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For all its wider muscle-flexing, Mexico cannot avoid ever-closer ties within North America.
In one of the bathrooms, there are photos of him at age 18 in a bathing suit, flexing his muscles.
They sat hunched on benches or stood flexing in front of mirrors, as hollow-eyed as statues in a sculpture garden.
But me being the age that I am now, I have to realize that's just, you know, young guys flexing.
It played up to the female viewers, airing an ad entirely made of a man in underwear flexing his abs.
Or when Rep. Christopher Lee resigned after sending a shirtless picture of him flexing to a woman on Craigslist?
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The question of when we started being human and flexing our abilities has been coming under constant revision in recent years.
China's neighbours are ever fretful about the possibility that popular nationalism in China might goad the country's leaders into muscle-flexing abroad.
Only that, they say, will convince their voters that, with Russia flexing its muscles nearby, sending troops to Afghanistan is worth it.
Second Brigade, Third Infantry Division did a repeat tour pushing inside the city, flexing the U.S. Army's muscle -- very little action.
It is not just hedge funds that are flexing their shareholderly muscles.
But the muscle of free enterprise may not yet be done flexing.
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