While backpacking through Thailand, I'd roll up my sleeves and punch my fist into my palm menacingly in hopes that I'd look too tough to attack on an empty midnight street.
Send your specialized, tougher units to attack the weaker units of your opponent.
"This reminds me of the situation," Mr. Christofias said, "before the Second World War where some leaders in Europe were trying to appease Hitler, not to become more tough and not to attack.
He wants to look tough; he needs to attack President Obama, to suggest that there was some miracle solution Obama could have found that would have stopped Iran's nuclear program by now, something Obama refused to do because he's too weak — but that Romney would do the day he was sworn in to office.
He campaigned as a populist, promising to be tough on crime and to attack poverty.
But he came to Mr. Romney's aid in early May, saying it was not a tough decision for Mr. Obama to attack Osama bin Laden's compound, a comment that buttressed Mr. Romney as he complained that the president was politicizing the anniversary of the raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan, that killed Bin Laden.
More smear tactics — now aimed directly at the lawmakers who would be asking Facebook tough questions by seeking to attack their moral right to defend privacy.
For all its tough talk, Nato is reluctant to attack because Belgrade is still seen as a stabilising force in the region.
The reality is that while Mr. Obama tries anew to persuade Pakistan to attack the toughest Al Qaeda havens, Plan B is well underway: There have been more than 100 Predator strikes in Pakistan this year, nearly double last year's number, and far more than President Bush ever launched.
Now it plans to attack rural markets, a tough call.At least P&G chose a weak joint-venture partner it could control.
The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, called for rapid, unified action by the security council on Syria as he arrived in Beijing as part of a diplomatic push to get Russia and China to back a tougher response to attacks by Assad's regime.
