Sentences with phrase «many sabers»

«The Chinese communists have been using cheap verbal intimidation and saber rattling on every aspect of the Republic of China [Taiwan] in the hope of affecting our morale or creating social unease,» said defense ministry spokesman Chen Chung - chi said, according to Reuters.

Taiwan's defense ministry accused China of using «cheap verbal intimidation and saber rattling» to threaten them as China began a massive live - fire military drill in the Taiwan Strait, stoking tensions in the area.

The saber paid tribute to The Joker's famous laugh, as Hamill played the Batman villain in the past.

While at Star Wars Celebration in London, a man who runs a website called Hampton's Hand - Crafted LED Sabers, which allows people to make their own lightsabers, handed Hamill a custom lightsaber.

You can't mistake it for anything else, with that dashing shield grille, those saber - like headlights, and the gorgeous Alfa badge.

Continued saber - rattling is widely seen as dangerous, which means Trump's current strategy may exacerbate the current crisis

She was also the first American to compete in a hijab, and won bronze in the team saber competition.

While I'm very excited at the progress that has been made in the last few days, we're a long way away from a peaceful situation, and apart from the saber - rattling, there are longer - term critical advances to be made related to Ukrainian capital formation.

Near the corner of Wilshire and La Brea, tourists gape at the remains of saber - toothed cats and mastodons dredged out of prehistoric tar pits.

An NCAA All - American at Duke University, the 30 - year - old saber athlete from New Jersey could eventually cross over into a fashion deal, as she founded the online boutique Louella.

«This alien hand comes in, don't know if it was Maz but it was an alien hand who takes the light saber way, and then the movie proceeds as you see it,» Hamill added.

From videos on how to shuck oysters or saber a champagne bottle, Erkkinen and Rosenblum always provide real value for enthusiastic cooking fans.

And for the Star Wars fan who has everything, the Jedi Challenges AR headset comes complete with a light saber motion - tracking, at a suggested price of $ 199.

Trump was presented with a ceremonial saber after giving a commencement speech.

The president began saber rattling about tariffs during his 2016 «Make America Great Again» election campaign.

The Transportation Security Administration tries to take away Chewbacca's light saber.

Trump's saber rattling with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has shaken global markets somewhat, but it hasn't caused an all - out panic.

Although the regulatory saber - rattling in Washington might seem an inefficient means of creating policy, Valkenburgh, who holds a doctorate of jurisprudence from NYU Law School and was a 2013 Google Policy Fellow, believes this seemingly uncoordinated dance, with different definitions and points of view, to be in the highest tradition of American law.

But Trump did not explain why, amid a week of economic saber - rattling between the two countries that shook global markets, he felt confident a deal could be made.

Major U.S. indices slid for a second straight week as President Donald Trump and North Korea both escalated their saber - rattling, with Kim Jong - un explicitly targeting Guam, home to a number of American military bases, and Trump tweeting Friday that «Military solutions are now fully in place, locked and loaded.»

The move comes in response to North Korea's belligerence, but was also clearly made in an effort to calm the saber - rattling from Washington.

Comments on the government's website included a petition from a user who claimed to have lost money due to the Justice Ministry's saber - rattling.

But in another flank attack, Amazon has rattled sabers against Google Home and Apple's Siri, as had been reported in June.

Is all of this jawboning just saber rattling to keep the dollar from plummeting, or is there a chance that Bernanke actually will raise rates at the Fed's August meeting?

In an email exchange on Friday, we asked Taleb about how investors should think about a risk like North Korea, where decades of saber - rattling has yet to evolve into a major military conflict.

Now, consider the global scale of current saber rattling, from the Baltics to the Black Sea, to the Persian Gulf to the South China Sea, Korea and more.

This includes renewed saber rattling between the Chinese and Japanese over the Senkaku Islands.

Looking at the figures above I can not complain as my dividend train keeps chugging along churning out that passive income despite currency headwinds, economic headwinds, terror across the world, saber rattling from North Korea, Russian troops in Ukraine, The Nigerian delta under attack curbing the flow of oil, floods, earthquakes etc. etc..

Such moves were «saber rattling» according to Ash, and didn't mean that Putin was going to make any land grabs elsewhere.

China's proposal to slap a 25 percent tariff on more U.S. imports, including hogs, soybeans and apples, in retaliation for Trump's plan to assess 25 percent tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum was more like returning fire than just rattling a saber.

Steven Nivin, chief economist of the SABER Research Institute, estimated the celebrations would create 1,300 new jobs, bring 263,000 more visitors in 2018, $ 4 million in tax revenue for Bexar County and the City, $ 8 million in in - kind media coverage, and $ 45 million worth of generated wages and benefits.

They only provide accounting data b / c that is all the SEC requires — AND because accounting rules provide loopholes that enable companies to manipulate earnings, a well - known fact that has gone unaddressed for some time despite some empty saber - rattling.

They only provide accounting data b / c that is all the SEC requires - AND because accounting rules provide loopholes that enable companies to manipulate earnings, a well - known fact that has gone unaddressed for some time despite some empty saber - rattling.

President Donald Trump's chaotic administration, stop - and - start Brexit negotiations, and saber - rattling from North Korea were just some of the obstacles that seemed to stand between investors and a strong year for markets in 2017.

Should we rattle sabers as other religions, or should we seek a non-violent mean to end the suffering of our fellow beings around the globe?

In his swimming trunks holding up his social security card in one hand and a light saber in the other hand while being baptised and you know what you'll say.

And considering the amount of money they have invested in USA Treasury bonds, they probably will remain a peaceful but saber - rattling country for the years to come.

This was the first time I had ever seen him draw anything besides Star Wars — themed stick figures with light sabers, and I actually stopped reading — I think I stopped breathing — to watch him do it.

quoting your bible is like an 8 year old stabbing at you with their pretend star wars light saber....

well, if it were up to The right side... we would Stop the drone strikes, put MORE boots on the ground, Increase Defense spending... and rattle some sabers.

In a world where other nations constructed the machinery of war in an attempt to achieve their own security, it was Israel's trust in Yahweh as warrior that freed the community of faith from taking part in arms races and saber - rattling.

This isn't technically the first time North Korea has rattled this particular saber, but it just wouldn't be a Monday without a bizarrely poetic threat of war from Kim Jong - Un.

Nevertheless, the memorabilia of inhumanity with a Russian face are indelible: the birch, the knout, the Cossack's saber, the cattle car, the Arctic slave - labor camp, the nine grams of lead in the back of the skull.

We live at a time when saber rattling is in vogue.

Nevertheless, the memorabilia of inhumanity with a Russian face are indelible: the birch, the knout, the Cossack's saber, the cattle car, the Arctic slave - labor camp, the....

Coming home drunk on another occasion, he demanded 200 francs from his mother and attacked her with a saber when she didn't deliver.

The fossil record includes the Stromatolites, colonies of prokaryotic bacteria, that range in age going back to about 3 billion years, the Ediacara fossils from South Australia, widely regarded as among the earliest multi-celled organisms, the Cambrian species of the Burgess shale in Canada (circa — 450 million years ago) the giant scorpions of the Silurian Period, the giant, wingless insects of the Devonian period, the insects, amphibians, reptiles, fishes, clams, crustaceans of the Carboniferous Period, the many precursors to the dinosaurs, the 700 odd known species of dinosaurs themselves, the subsequent dominant mammals, including the saber tooth tiger, the mammoths and hairy rhinoceros of North America and Asia, the fossils of early man in Africa and the Neanderthals of Europe.

If Cavemen had our blueberry nut bar, they may have stayed in their caves longer rather than being chased by saber - toothed tigers.

Inevitably, our youngest son (T) finds a large stick to alternately drag behind him and brandish like a light - saber.

From light - saber celery fights and sticky hands mixing up bean burgers, to a girl meticulously laying out asparagus into a pie dish and a boy showing his grandmother how to use a spiraliser, the film shows how Meat Free Mondays are simple, enjoyable and can be the most exciting meal time of the week.