In Paris, it may be fashionable to parade tiny lapdogs but in macho Milan they brandish brutes.
Only 12%of Americans think gun ownership laws should be made less strict (though that's exactly what's happened in past year – Newtown tragedy or no) yet I doubt we'll see many ads where politicians proudly brandish their Silent Circle app, or show footage of themselves surfing the web with Tor.
My daughter, never forgetting that her 17th birthday marks three years since her grandpa died, will still brandish her provisional driving licence proudly.
As played by Megan Fox, several orders of magnitude of icy beauty above the mere mortals around her, Jennifer is the worst type of popular high school girl, fully aware of her newfound beauty and confident enough to brandish it like a weapon against one and all.
In the basement of an old tower block near Kuwait City, recruitment agents brandish files full of healthy, work-ready domestic workers.
POLITICIANS do not usually brandish big chunks of metal when giving speeches.
Some carry parasols, others sticks and metal rods that they brandish sullenly.
Members of the tiny Hong Kong Independence Party, which was formed in 2014, brandish the former colonial flag and accuse China of "reducing Hong Kongers to second-class citizens in their own land".
No one knows whether this collaboration has included warhead or other nuclear work too (though North Korea appears to have helped Syria to build a suspected and almost completed plutonium-producing reactor, which Israel destroyed in an air raid in 2007).Strutting its stuffNorth Korea is evidently quite happy to brandish its bombs.
Yet many pro-Islamists respect Mr Moussa as a man of experience, even if he does not brandish his faith on his sleeve.In a mirror image his opponent, Abdel Moneim Abolfotoh, occupies the liberal end of Islamism.
During the debate, thousands of Uruguayans descended on the plaza in front of the legislative palace to wave flyers in the shape of cannabis leaves, smoke hookahs, and brandish banners reading: "cultivating Uruguayan freedom .Others are less high on the idea.
