Sentence examples for national posturing from inspiring English sources

Wouldn't it galvanise the debate if the Paris talks later this year ditch the national posturing and game-playing in favour of a unified, transparent system, and then rallied support for it?

While there are many things I cannot control – national posturing on climate change, for example – I have taken stock in how I can make a difference as an individual.

But it is still early in the game and national posturing always dominates early phases of negotiations like this.

Her innate personal stubbornness was translated into a national posture in the Middle East conflict, with disastrous consequences for her own people and for the region as a whole.

To capture it will require imagination, rigor, a sleeves-rolled-up national posture.

Outfitted in the national colours, posturing as they dance around heritage sites, the video for "Tajikistan" by Adaba, Mr Skap and Sam Salamov plays out like a tourist board advert, celebrating everything from the national airline to the Tajik football team.

Outfitted in the national colors, posturing as they dance around heritage sites, the video for "Tajikistan" by Adaba, Mr. Skap, and Sam Salamov plays out like a tourist board advert, celebrating everything from the national airline to the Tajik soccer team.

If a foreign-owned energy company was to be allowed enough freedom to make sensible engineering decisions on the way forward (choosing cheap low-risk reactors, for example, and being able to select gas/coal/etc according to logic rather than political motives either driven by dogma or supra-national posturing like Kyoto) then it could work very well.

While national leaders postured and pursued their parochial interests, Mr. Draghi, told reporters at the central bank's headquarters that he would conduct "two longer-term refinancing operations" (in plain English, emergency financing) for cash-starved banks for three years instead of one year.

"He was also convinced that ultimately the Muslims could be made to give up their aggressive and anti-national postures only when the Hindus became organized and powerful enough to make them realize that their interests were best served in joining the Hindus in the national mainstream".

Australia's tough national security posturing in the past 14 years has cultivated a discourse and climate of fear and overreaction.