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?
Is this just posturing, or does Israel really have to fear for its long-term position in Galilee?
This defensive posturing does create a question for investors: How much bad news is already factored into the markets?
This opportunistic posturing is why we feel slighted and betrayed by the West.
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.
We have seen this kind of posturing from those African leaders who profess to holding degrees in violence, and the belligerent nature of Mr Mutharika's comments was noted by the diplomatic circles in his country with disastrous consequences.
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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.
Look, what we are witnessing here with this measure is classic Washington posturing, kabuki theater.
There will be a lot of political posturing about how this experiment shows that ObamaCare or the Medicaid expansion is misguided.
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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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Though the hour is late, we remain hopeful that this president will set aside political posturing and finally get serious about working with Congress to find a lasting solution to sequestration.
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.
This line of thinking held that such posturing fueled Islamist rage and forced closer cooperation among the Islamic courts.
Now a lot of this is, quite obviously, pure political posturing of the most shameless and naked variety.
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Considering the potential stakes, this is not the time for more Clintonian verbal posturing.
Now this is all, of course, empty political posturing of the most vacuous sort and we would be very wise not to read too much (or anything) into this decision.
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