Sentence examples for trade muscle from inspiring English sources

China, however, showed no hesitation at all about using its trade muscle to get its way in a political dispute, in clear — if denied — violation of international trade law.

As a first signal of their intent to get tougher, if Iran won't keep its side of the October bargain, Britain, France and Germany should join America in insisting that Iran's nuclear rule-breaking go directly to the Security Council, where international sanctions could be contemplated.Iran would be livid if Europe flexed its trade muscle even in this limited way.

Once again faced with the exercise of trade union muscle, we have seen the Labour Party reduced to a cowering blancmange.

Once again, faced with the exercise of trade union muscle, we've seen the Labour party reduced to a cowering blancmange". In response, the shadow education secretary, Stephen Twigg, said the speech showed the Conservatives had no plans to raise standards.

Much like the French, Greeks like to flex their trade union muscles as regularly as possible.

He attributes the demise of lime in construction  partly to the way that  the Portland Cement Association, a  trade group,  muscled  its competition out of the market in the 1800s.

We also traded our muscle power for endurance (compared to chimps, for instance), so that our ancestors could gather more food, which fueled bigger brains.

The exercisers, however, traded fat for muscle, improved their balance and gained strength and small but significant amounts of bone density.

Furthermore, the differences in spine loads appear to be a result of kinematic trade-offs and muscle coactivity differences in combination with unequal body masses between genders.

A trade-off in muscle architecture exists in muscles that do both; the fibres should be as short as possible to minimise activation cost but long enough to maintain an appropriate shortening velocity.

The patterns of differentiation in larval developmental rate and efficiency in relation to temperature in the Lesjaskogsvatnet grayling supports findings in a number of other studies; this include 1) the relationship between temperature environment and individual growth rate [ 32] and development rate [ 33, 34], and 2) trade-offs between muscle growth and skeletal differentiation [ 22, 35- 37].