To be sure, this kind of saber-rattling happens every time the Guild's contract comes up for renegotiation.
India's saber-rattling is in direct response to the transfer of Chinese missile technology to India's neighbor, Pakistan.
Investors with a long-term view have often regarded saber-rattling as an opportunity to snap up shares at lower prices.
The saber-rattling from Tehran has come in response to moves toward new sanctions by Western nations aimed at Iran's nuclear program.
Arbitron officials suggest that Hogan's public saber-rattling is reminiscent of the game of chicken the company played with the Infinity radio chain last year.
China's saber-rattling, however much its neighbors might identify with its aspirations to protect its territorial integrity, is deeply disturbing and destabilizing to the entire region.
Iran is doing more saber-rattling and has threatened Saudi Arabia if it acts to ramp up its oil production if the EU halts Iranian oil purchases.
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Tensions in the Middle East have been high as saber-rattling between Iran and Israel remains heated and Western nations keep sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program.
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The elimination of a single Arab producer--say, Iraq (which, despite all the saber-rattling from the White House, still exports about 500, 000 barrels a day to the U.S.)--could make PDVSA a critical fallback supplier.
The elimination of a single Arab producer--Iraq, say (which despite all the saber-rattling from the White House, still exports half a million barrels a day to the U.S.)--could make PDVSA a critical fallback supplier.
"You have a 28-year-old leader who is trying to prove himself to the military, and the military is eager to have a saber-rattling for their own self-interest, " said Rep. Mike Rogers, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
Those who see weaker prices next week said, while gold might be oversold in the short-term, the medium-term technical picture has turned negative and that could lead to weaker prices, even as geopolitical worries heat up, such as saber-rattling by Iran over possibly closing the Straits of Hormuz, a key shipping lane for oil transportation.
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Here's a look at the precarious balance of power that has kept the Korean Peninsula so close to conflict since the three-year war ended in 1953, and some of the strategic calculus behind why, despite the shrill rhetoric and seemingly reckless saber-rattling, leaders on both sides of the Demilitarized Zone have carefully avoided going back over the brink.
The current test of wills and ratcheting up the saber rattling is a dangerous dead-end.
Rather, it was another aggressive Korean icon, the Young General Kim Jong-un, whose latest saber rattling got the attention of a lot of people inured to the belligerent bleating of his DPRK state.
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