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noun
The way a person holds and positions their body.
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Republicans seem convinced that Mr. Obama's no-negotiations stance on the debt ceiling amounts to posturing.
And its protests of the deal, some analysts suggest, amount to posturing with intent.
Public scrutiny "stifles a full and free expression of views," Mr. Manning said, which "could lead in some instances to posturing".
As Lepore points out, end-of-life care constitutes a vast proportion of annual medical expenditures, but the generalized failure to confront the implications of real costs on moral grounds is an invitation to posturing, or even demagoguery.
Richard Lippe, a managing partner in Meltzer, Lippe, Goldstein & Schlissel, a law firm in Mineola, said that he thought much of the ire directed by company founders against the Sarbanes-Oxley Act amounted to posturing.
The rest of the album reverts to posturing and in-jokes: a blues parody, straightforward steals (like the "Secret Agent Man" melody in "Hypnotize"), a throwaway guest appearance by the English garage-rocker Holly Golightly.
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Courtship involves mutual bill dipping or head-to-head posturing.
"We do not respond to macho posturing".
Some attendees seemed to respond to that libertarian posturing.
"It's not necessary to posture".
"That may not please those who want me to posture and pose".
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