| But when they reached for substance, they tended to brandish shopworn proposals targeted at narrow and increasingly elderly groups of voters. |
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| The police brandish leather bats, whips, long sticks and Kalashnikov rifles. |
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| In contrast, people and other jawed vertebrates brandish adaptive immune systems. |
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| Those who brandish or discharge firearms in a public place would, in all but the rarest cases, be locked up. |
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| What we get are incredibly evil criminals who brandish weapons and shoot wantonly at our heroes, along with exaggerated matriarchal stereotypes. |
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| There was no order to brandish weapons, push journalists around and fire into the air. |
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| Security guards brandish automatic weapons in front of all the Jakarta business hotels, poised to ward off potential terrorist attacks. |
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| Senators like Jean Carnahan went out of their way to brandish their hunting rifles. |
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| He bent over to grab the brown metal wastebasket and brandish it like a shield, making her laugh. |
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| He pleaded guilty to possession of an unregistered firearm, which he tended to brandish at his employees, purportedly in jest. |
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| Remember when the mobile Internet was going to reshape the economic order, and we'd all brandish our phones to watch videos and feed parking meters? |
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| The undead come in all shapes and sizes, from regular old ghouls to nasty crimson zombies that brandish razor-sharp claws and run faster than the characters. |
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| In Paris, it may be fashionable to parade tiny lapdogs but in macho Milan they brandish brutes. |
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| In the basement of an old tower block near Kuwait City, recruitment agents brandish files full of healthy, work-ready domestic workers. |
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| Some carry parasols, others sticks and metal rods that they brandish sullenly. |
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| I call on the French Government to brandish France's veto on the morning of 3 October and to leave the negotiating table. |
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| In order to do that, we need to brandish big sticks which are felt on the domestic US political scene. |
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| Yet now that the rules have been smashed, the Commission cannot continue to brandish the Tables of the Law. |
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| The pride with which they brandish these cards is evidence of their feelings of belonging and status. |
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| In clearer terms, the USA obtained permission from the WTO to brandish a gun under the pretext that it was not loaded. |
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| During this time the civil servants refuse the necessary reforms and brandish their favourite weapon, the strike recommended by Marc Blondel. |
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| In these conditions, it makes little sense to brandish the threat of an invasion. |
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| There is no intention to confront, to howl, fuss and brandish differences, to revealsome sort of drama. |
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| Bill 160 is an anti-labour and antidemocratic law and the Bouchard government, chose to brandish fines and penalties rather than negotiate. |
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| Those who do nothing to end the slaughter are as complicit as those who brandish their weapons. |
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| It sets the stage for cutting corners in our principles just so we can brandish a perceived badge of stature. |
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| But the government is in no hurry to brandish any of these sticks. |
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| Pilot automátio, GPS, Plotter, VHF, Bimini, staircase of bath, cover of toldilla, brandish electrical, flybridge, boat auxiliary power-driven outboard kitchen totally equipped refrigerator electrical equip of safety. |
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| I note that some of my colleagues noted that we do not take great joy in having to take such a step, but we do so because the separatist leaders continue to brandish the threat of another referendum on separation. |
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| But the greatest reward in Sarajevo had to be the energy of the crowd, the sheer burst of dynamism from Bosnian youth eager to turn the page on past hatreds and brandish new ideals of tolerance, peace and respect. |
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| The reality was thus what we have stated: being a minority and often detested, Shiites could not claim to brandish the standard of the revolt intended to rally all Muslims. |
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| They are wrong to brandish this argument so soon before the Council makes its decision on opening negotiations, and their only purpose in so doing is to hide their real reasons for rejecting Turkey's integration. |
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| Finally, Grant had recently secured the Minister's and the RCAF's agreement that the air branch would survive, and it was unlikely that he wanted to brandish the red cape of a second carrier at that particular time. |
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| Why else would they brandish those beer guts so proudly in sausage-skin replica sports jerseys? |
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| This way, we raise ourselves up on our own summit, a peak dazzling with a light that contains the whole universe, and we brandish the sharp blade of wisdom. |
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| Perfect your skills to become a master assassin where you brandish new weapons, learn to disarm enemies then use their weapons against them and assassinate enemies using both hidden blades. |
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| It does not give you license to brandish a gun and wave it around. |
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| My daughter, never forgetting that her 17th birthday marks three years since her grandpa died, will still brandish her provisional driving licence proudly. |
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| So many European intellectuals brandish the spectre of an Islamicized Europe following on the heels of Turkey's membership that one ends up frightened. |
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| The Brandish Vauxhall garage in Raglan Street is soon to move premises and now an application has been submitted to planning chiefs for the student accommodation at the site. |
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