Iraqi politicians have not been exempt from posturing for political gain.

Politics becomes involved, and political posturing is amply rewarded by public attention.

French intellectuals, never shy of public posturing, are campaigning to give her French citizenship.

Within their peer group culture each of them is posturing based on how the other boys are posturing, and what they end up missing is what they each really want, which is just that closeness.

Yes. Is the current war posturing an ancient theological dispute? No. Iyad El Baghdadi ( iyad_elbaghdadi) January 13, 2016

Mr. Kariyawasam (Sri Lanka) said that the NPT should not be exploited for the purpose of political posturing.

All of this has jangled nerves as did similar military posturing and diplomatic arm wrestling from 2009 to mid 2011.

So you're going to see two groups, and you're going to see the head to head posturing, some open mouths,

But now America s debt ceiling has become the subject of intense political posturing and touch and go negotiations behind closed doors.

Left to its own devices, such a grouping is vulnerable to recurrent bickering, disruptive posturing, and disagreement over visions of the future.

The quiet dignity of the protests that followed did more for Iran s standing in the world than any amount of belligerent posturing by a populist president.

The Austrian government s posturing motivated as much by its upcoming elections as genuine foreign policy concerns seemed to threaten the opening of the accession talks themselves.

I am confident that, under your leadership, Sir, we will work with unity of purpose and perhaps with less posturing to address the challenges before us.

We must also consolidate the substantial gains we have made in arms control and disarmament, and ensure that we do not, through posturing, impede real progress.

At a time like this, we can't risk partisan bickering and political posturing. Our leaders have to reach across the aisle to do the people's work.

Salman Rushdie called her the first refugee from Western Europe since the Holocaust. French intellectuals, never shy of public posturing, are campaigning to give her French citizenship.

When you meet today s new Russian Nomenklatura, you experience a sudden feeling of being 20 years younger, awash as they are in nostalgia for Cold War posturing.

Major oil exporters could respond in a variety of ways to political posturing on energy, most of which would exacerbate rather than ameliorate the global energy situation.

Instead of reaching out to the common or the collective wisdom in our societies, investing in it to find more creative solutions, we reverted to political posturing.

For rulers who don t care if their victories are Pyrrhic, it is also an easily accessible resource for manipulating the public imagination with conspiracy theories and patriotic posturing.

On the government s part, the more open media in Sichuan may be mere posturing to appease critics after the Tibet upheaval and the scuffle over the Olympic torch.

Unfortunately, previous United Nations development dialogues, hampered by a cold war division of Member States into ideological camps, have tended to produce only rhetorical posturing, polarization and intransigence.

If Europe is not prepared to take up arms when it must, then its appeals for fair play will sound to the rest of the world like mere posturing.

The rhetoric and posturing, the lack of commitment to human rights or democratic processes, may be and should be upsetting, but there will be far more bark than bite.

Today, and probably the days to come, will be a clear demonstration os the very worst of Israel, what Will termed a dangerous blend of Zionist fantasy and election posturing.

Its negative attitude and posturing merely corroborated the suggestion that Israel was deliberately preventing the international community from discovering the real humanitarian and human rights situation in the occupied territories.

Good leaders have the courage to stand up and do what is right which often will not be what is expedient, especially in terms of posturing for the next election.

The measures that it takes to protect its sovereignty and territorial integrity are not tactically motivated posturing but rather legal acts of self defence, recognized as such by the United Nations Charter.

However, the only way to guarantee that nuclear weapons would never be used was for the world to be free of them it was time to move beyond rhetorical flourish and political posturing.

If such a contingent capital structure had been in place before the crisis, troubled banks would have been recapitalized by the contingent debt holders while avoiding the complications and legal posturing inevitable in formal bankruptcy.

In reviewing the progress made towards the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals, we must have the courage to go beyond the mere posturing that is characterized by name calling, finger pointing and false accusations.

As a Chilean government minister late last decade, I remember the frustration of attending Mercosur gatherings (Chile is an associate member). They were long on posturing and endless speeches, but short on substantive agreements about anything.

Twice this year at the Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, and now at this summit we have allowed posturing to get in the way of results.

Twice this year at the Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, and now at this summit we have allowed posturing to get in the way of results.

If we are serious about wanting to solve global warming, we need to take action that actually does good as opposed to wasting valuable resources on empty agreements and moral posturing that merely make us feel good.

There is little appetite on either side for large scale military intervention in Iraq and Syria to counter the Islamic State. But there will be heated debate and considerable posturing over what should and should not be done.

The passing of authority in Iraq from the US led coalition to an Iraqi government and the need for a much stronger UN role now offers the chance and imposes the need for everyone to stop posturing and get serious.

In his post on The Christian Science Monitor, Scott Baldauf referred to the chain of events as 'ritual aggression' between India and Pakistan, a posturing more out of habit than actual security concerns, especially given that the two countries were currently trying to develop closer ties.