This posturing is fairly painless in electoral terms, since most Labour voters live among pavements rather than hedgerows.
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What all this posturing and gesturing reveals is that both sides in Iran, reformist and conservative, would like to see an end to the 21-year rift in relations.
In this posturing, Mr. Karzai may end up overplaying his hand and misjudging the public mood in the U.S. and in other coalition countries that are increasingly losing patience with Afghanistan and its president, senior U.S. officials warn.
Julianne Malveaux, is this political posturing, or is this the Senate really making hay with the idea that this needs to be changed?
This defensive posturing does create a question for investors: How much bad news is already factored into the markets?
Perhaps, say the optimists, this is posturing that presages a concession.
This sort of posturing is much less effective than co-operation might prove to be.
But in terms of any immediate budget discipline, there's less to this conflict than the posturing suggests.
This combination of public posturing and quiet co-operation is already well-established in local government in Northern Ireland.
They work recognize that there is no political posturing to this move, but a genuine interest in creating a set of solutions that will deliver economic recovery.
This pattern of male posturing and female choice is common amongst animals and, over the years, the criteria the females use to make their choices have been elucidated.
"This is all positioning and posturing, and CME and Citadel made the first move, " Lane said.
If you plan to sell the stock in January, and you know for sure that capital gains taxes are going to rise once Congress finishes posturing, then this may sound like a terrific tax-savings strategy.
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We all understand that there are legitimate and genuine differences between the parties, but despite the political posturing that often paralyzes this town, there are many issues upon which we can and should agree.
There's another reason that Selig's haughty posturing is laughable: This is the commissioner who used the power of his office to move his team, the Milwaukee Brewers, from the American League to the National League because he thought it would make the franchise more valuable.
Both a lovely example of what happens when colonial and Chinese architectural styles blend, the mansion is also a monument to the entrepreneurial skill and posturing that, to this day, animates the local " Baba Nonya" community, descendants of those Chinese merchants who settled in the great Malay and Indonesian archipelagos.
To be sure, there will be more posturing and empty rhetoric in evidence in the Senate this week.
Or, we can say that this time will be different -- that this time we will not let terror, or turbulence, or posturing, or petty politics stand in the way.
This and any prior maneuvers from both sides are almost assuredly the typical posturing that goes on in early rounds of a negotiation.
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And I think one of the things that I think that was so frustrating about what happened this summer is that because of the seriousness of the consequences of the posturing, they were forced to pay attention to it, and they were appalled by and scared by it.
In truth, some of this hostility is due less to anti-greenery than to anti-Sarkozy posturing.
Yet the problem with their promises is this: for every bit of conviction, there is a shameful share of pure posturing.
At first, this reticence seemed like a clever device to force the two sides to abandon their rhetorical posturing and accept responsibility for calming the situation.
Indeed, one cynical interpretation of Mr Reid's actions doing the rounds this week was that he knew all along that neither bill would succeed and is motivated entirely by posturing for the mid-terms.
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And at this point, the question is whether we will move forward together or split apart, whether we prefer posturing to action.
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