Sentence examples for hostile posturing from inspiring English sources

Her hostile posturing has turned even well-meaning people against Team Davis, depriving Shani of the stature and recognition that his hard work and glittering achievements warrant.

After months of hostile posturing in early 1997, the Padres finally traded Irabu's rights to the Yankees, with whom he promptly signed a four-year deal.

Calling out these instances of sexist behavior is exhausting, because the response is often one of defensive, even hostile posturing.

Faced with increasingly hostile posturing by Italy during the spring of 1940, the Force de Raid was dispatched, on 2 April to the Mediterranean.

Spurred by the recent discovery and development of oil off the islands and a 2013 referendum (deemed irrelevant and invalid by Argentina), in which all but three Falkland voters chose to remain part of the UK, the past year saw increasingly hostile posturing over the strategic South Atlantic bastion.

"But it in no way is a hostile posture".

The White House reflexively assumed a hostile posture, like a cornered skunk.

"It is believed two or three of these men may have been carrying weapons, although witnesses said none were assuming a hostile posture at the time".

The regime views these markets — and the women who run them — with "an ambivalent if not actively hostile posture," Mr. Haggard and Mr. Noland write.

In recent weeks the Conservative government of David Cameron [pictured] has adopted an increasingly hostile posture towards the EU, squeeezed by the rise of the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), which wants Britain to leave the club.

A second trip was even less productive, and the Administration returned to a hostile posture, declaring support for establishing a U.N. commission of inquiry to investigate war crimes in Burma.