Sentences with phrase «sabre rattling»

This case will also be watched by those in the copyright community in the educational system, since Access Copyright («AC») has recently increased the volume of its sabre rattling in the fallout from its great defeat on fair dealing in the Supreme Court of Canada on July 12, 2012, and the resulting hit on its revenues with much more decline to follow.

There has been a significant amount of sabre rattling in this country by those who find their properties and even their images appearing on the Google facility, but, what are the prospects of success against Google as a result of Streetview in the UK?

The warmists have such a record of being wrong and still insist they are right amidst wild post-hoc rationalization, sabre rattling, circling of the clown cars and attempts to stare down the abyss addled sarcasm.

Each level requires logic, precision, agility and lots of sabre rattling.

What really irritates me though isn't so much the on - going sabre rattling, but the hypocrisy on both sides.

Its kind of like how planned parenthood actually benefits from sabre rattling in congress about defunding it by exponentially increased donations.

Nick Clegg is standing firm over the future of Lord Rennard, saying basic decency requires the peer to apologise over harassment allegations before having the party whip restored and that he does not believe this is the time for legal sabre rattling by Rennard's supporters.

And the same would be true if Russia started sabre rattling on the Eastern borders of the EU.

While the sabre rattling and economic boycotts are very visible actions, behind the scenes discussions between cooler heads will likely be what leads to a politically palitable resolution, if that is even possible at this point.

Of course, Ross's sabre rattling could be the precursor to some gunboat diplomacy (although the White House claims that President Trump was just joking about sending in U.S. troops in his call with the Mexican President).

Not exact matches

«The union is already rattling sabres,» Hon observes.

In August, Pyongyang threatened to shoot intermediate range missiles towards the vicinity of Guam, a target frequently subjected to sabre - rattling from the North.

If there's one word that defines the Canadian economy at the moment, it's uncertainty — what with the shaky housing market, towering household debt loads and, of course, a certain orange - hued world leader rattling the sabre of trade wars.

«No Tankers» supporters might still wish their B.C. representatives rattled their sabres more aggressively, but remember, in politics (well, in Canadian politics), the person that convinces people that they are the most reasonable usually wins.

The governor has been sabre - rattling for some time about calling the Legislature back to Albany between the primary and general elections in hopes of getting lawmaker to act (in some cases yet again) on his property tax cap proposal.

Compare Ojukwu's sabre - rattling back in 1967 with Kanu's impassioned hate today, against the non-Igbo in what he dubbed the «Nigerian zoo», and you would perhaps realize how little a once - bitten people have changed over a 50 year - period!

Given the sabre - rattling among some Yoruba ultra-nationalists, the atavistic romanticization of Yoruba mores and ethos and the impassioned ethnic hate from a section still very bitter at the election loss of 2015, it is not easy to say.

They're sabre - rattling.

This sabre - rattling sounds like absurd talk from a megalomaniac madman, yet nobody would like a seemingly irrational leader to possess nuclear weapons.

In Britain, the Falklands tend to be viewed through the prism of Argentine sabre - rattling − of which there has been plenty since huge oil reserves were discovered in the seas around the islands.

And the sabre - rattling from a section of the Ijaw, threatening war and destruction should Goodluck Jonathan fail re-election, nicely keyed into that gung ho narrative, which certainly was not without sympathy in the South East.

«I am concerned that sabre - rattling is not the right approach right now,» she said.

Sources told The Mail on Sunday Mr Hammond was «furious» that the Commons Defence Committee had announced its visit in advance — therefore leaving the UK open to allegations of «sabre - rattling».

The sabre - rattling between Pyongyang and Washington is masking a dangerous destabilisation in deterrence — making nuclear war by accident a real possibility

The final image is an enduring one — in the days since I've seen Gone Baby Gone, it's hardly left my mind — and where bits of jingoistic garbage like Rendition are rattling bleeding heart sabres with patronizing, simpleminded zeal, here's a movie that takes the sobering, mature stance that even things that are black - and - white are never black - and - white.

At a time when Russia is once again rattling its international sabre, and clamping down on civil liberties, a documentary exploring one Soviet writer's persecution at the hands of Stalin and the U.S.S.R.'s secret police feels all - too timely.

Nicky Morgan says MPs have a duty to examine the UK's customs plans and not engage in «sabre - rattling».

And the rattling sabre of the price wars then passes to Weinman's colleague at Publishers Lunch, Michael Cader.

Where on earth do you think most of the sabre - rattling with Iran is coming from?

This would mean letting Crimea go (but trading it for something valuable), a neutral Ukraine, and less sabre - rattling from the EU.

Tweedledum and Tweedledee rattling imaginary sabres as foils to the fear of the future.

And right on cue, Quebec separatists have started rattling the sabres, pulling out Supreme Court decisions from over 25 years ago and the Clarity Act, which both require a much higher threshold than the Brexit referendum.