| As a deterrent to boatpeople, the mindless sabre-rattling by the Australian government is utterly futile. |
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| None of this sabre-rattling and war-mongering deterred the British middle class from cramming their sitting rooms with Japanese objets-d'art. |
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| Once again, sabre-rattling would silence the legitimate and sovereign voice of the people. |
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| They have not said no. They have not told the United States to stop the sabre-rattling or to stop preparing for a military intervention. |
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| Thus they were ill-prepared to confront Hitler and his brutish regime which had been sabre-rattling and re-arming for the best part of a decade. |
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| Shortly after that the sabre-rattling against Iraq began, and was soon followed by war. |
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| Dudayev became the avatar of Chechen independence, and was elected president in October 1991 amid warnings and sabre-rattling by Moscow. |
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| There has been remonstrance but no sabre-rattling. But forbearance alone cannot be a long-term answer to the problem of Pakistan. |
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| The defence of a new Russian single-track transcontinental railway to Vladivostok was both a cause for sabre-rattling and, ultimately, a major factor in defeat. |
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| And then out comes Phil with his Rory sabre-rattling. |
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| He views as contemptuous the current sabre-rattling of the sole remaining superpower and its covert policy of securing existing crude oil reserves by using military force if necessary. |
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| Its sabre-rattling is reshaping the strategic landscape. |
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| It is most important that diplomatic sabre-rattling should not outweigh the threat of an environmental disaster off the Spanish coast. That, after all, is the real problem. |
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| Your sabre-rattling fools no one because, as you know perfectly well, whether you like it or not, you need Austria in order to reform the Treaties and harmonise savings tax. |
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| The People's Republic of China has developed an increasingly formidable armoury of offensive nuclear weapons and still engages in military sabre-rattling against Taiwan. |
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| In the project I just related to you, where the wiretap ended in February 2006, as we approached trial there was much sabre-rattling over the Garofoli hearing. |
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| Let us hope that politicians do not become carried away with their crowd-pleasing sabre-rattling to such an extent that they choke the breath out of the economic recovery. |
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| So long as Turkey does not regress on the path to democracy or take to populist sabre-rattling and nationalist hysteria, its EU perspective will remain intact. |
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| As I mentioned, there was much sabre-rattling. |
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| This has led to sabre-rattling among big powers. |
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| Royal Mail should stop this sabre-rattling. |
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| President Bush does his sabre-rattling at home, too. |
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| Instead of the Bush administration's recent sabre-rattling, I believe North Korea should be offered a political and diplomatic agreement as a quid pro quo for monitoring of its nuclear arsenal. |
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| Guzzled by Egypt but generated in Ethiopia, the waters of the Blue Nile have long been a source of sabre-rattling. |
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| This time, the rabble-rousing and sabre-rattling didn't work. |
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| The United States must maintain a powerful presence in the Pacific to guard against Chinese rashness, but avoid sabre-rattling or too obviously strengthening Taiwan. |
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| This sabre-rattling elicited some sympathy for the Catalanist cause, but also exposed regional politicians to the kind of rough-and-tumble commentary that they are unused to from the local press. |
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| One thing that is truly worrisome about the sabre-rattling and the warmongering of U. S. is that it has taken it upon itself to talk about pre-emptive strikes absolutely in defiance of international law. |
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