Sentence examples for to be posturing from inspiring English sources

It is not surprising that figures in many selections appear to be posturing or somehow giving overt signals.

Lt. Joe Heffernan, who supervises the detectives, seems to be posturing for the camera, talking to his officers for our benefit, but he is the exception.

It offers strong material in its images of adults, but is somewhat diluted by a large proportion of photographs of teenagers who appear to be posturing.

Schulz said that Europe's credibility would be on the line if the talk of wide-ranging economic sanctions turned out to be posturing.

I hadn't seen the play before, but now, at a time when innocent victims abound and the government seems to be posturing less out of cynicism than confusion and impotence, one is hungry for something more nuanced than blanket demonization of a faceless Arab enemy and disdain for power politics and the media.

Her latest proposal to resuscitate the public option as part of the ACA lacks any credibility, and she just seems to be posturing as an advocate for "reform".

"We want to be postured where we're most needed, not just where we've been, and that's not always easy," Gen. Bryan D. Brown, the Special Operations commander, said in a recent interview.

This is a very rapid process and appears to be posture-dependent and often associated with segmental instability [16, 17].

Such a tactic may simply be posturing to threaten Dubai World with a long legal process.

The U.S. would be "postured to act independently when collective action cannot be orchestrated".

"Disbanding Ofgem to create Ofgem II is posturing to no purpose.