Sentence examples for belligerent posturing from inspiring English sources

Nonetheless, the United States, which is still the most powerful nation in the Pacific, should resist the temptation of belligerent posturing when it isn't strictly necessary.

They say it is a short-term ploy meant to keep North Korea's weapons programs and its often belligerent posturing from becoming campaign issues in important legislative elections in South Korea in April, and in the United States presidential election in November.

A switch to a more belligerent posture was regarded as the price of his immediate return.

These commentators share another common view: long-standing support for a more belligerent posture toward Iran, including military confrontation, regime change, or both.

For example, if he gave parole to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an oligarch imprisoned without even a pretence at a fair trial, dropped Russia's belligerent posture towards Georgia, began to open up state-run television to alternative voices, and initiated a crackdown on corruption, then it would be right to respond in a friendly fashion.

As a longstanding political and strategic ally and a provider of substantial amounts of energy and food assistance, and given its geographical proximity, Beijing has the means and increasingly the incentive to put pressure on Pyongyang to row back from its belligerent posture.

But while India has been taking a belligerent posture in public, it recently moved aside the commander of one of its three offensive strike corps after he moved his forces threateningly close to the border with Pakistan, Pakistani and Indian officials say.

From 1980 to, well, the last five or so years, as a nation we have favored a belligerent posture as our first response to crises overseas.

Just posturing?

"It was just posturing.

Both men were posturing.