I didn't have to try to flap my wings.

It looks as if the waving is a more effective strategy than the other strategy.

All right, but if we're having a meeting... it'd better be more than poking holes in the air with your finger.

They don't care. You're wearing a skirt. It's like waving a red flag to a bull.

Indeed, the US is already trying to soften up Iranian resistance by hinting at a possible use of force.

A marble statue could wave its hand at us the atoms that make up its crystalline structure are all vibrating back and forth anyway.

Israel s reluctance to rattle its nuclear saber, even in dire circumstances, adds to the mystery.

The James Randi Educational Foundation is waving this very big carrot, but I must say, the fact that nobody has taken us up on this offer doesn't mean that the powers don't exist.

Unfortunately, inspiration, too, requires the threat of effective military power to be an effective force for change.

On board the ship itself, with much yelling and arm waving, the stevedores then unloaded each sling and saw its contents placed in a designated position in the hold.

The most marked difference is in how boys and girls are perceived to dance. Girls are demure, mostly using a dupatta, and their dance moves are limited to hand movements and saying hips.

I realized that the reason they're not there is that until we have a critical mass of informed citizens in our own societies, politicians will get away with gestures.

You cannot swing a sword at a tree and scream at it to produce more fruit, or hold a burning torch to a field and demand more wheat.

A marble statue could wave its hand at us the atoms that make up its crystalline structure are all vibrating back and forth anyway.

As for the threat to use the veto or what is known as the covert veto, this is frequently resorted to during the drafting and formulation of draft resolutions.

That unless we have an informed society, what politicians do, especially in relation to Africa, is gestures things that look good, but don't work.

With his left hand, his father picked up a large newspaper from the table and, stamping his feet on the floor, he set out to drive Gregor back into his room by waving the cane and the newspaper.

This was true of the case of Leonardo Hidalgo, which is documented in annex I. The so called Frente Revolucionario Salvadoreño has repeatedly made death threats against senior officials of the armed forces.

Alternatively, another international force may be able to accomplish more than its predecessors, which mostly waved at the terrorists as they passed.

We should think of North Korea s economic transition process as a prerequisite for full denuclearization, rather than simply holding out the promise of a big assistance package as a quid pro quo .

It made the valley of tears bearable both by offering financial and other assistance and by holding out the promise of membership and economic prosperity in the near future.

For several weeks this summer, the stadiums in Austria and Switzerland, not to mention the streets of European capitals, from Madrid to Moscow, were given to an orgy of flag waving, anthem singing, drum beating patriotism.

The tribal feelings of Germans were considered, for obvious reasons, to be particularly toxic after Hitler s Reich, which is why German flag waving, until recently, was exercised with a slight air of shame faced restraint that was entirely absent in surrounding countries.

Now, let me tell you, The James Randi Educational Foundation is waving this very big carrot, but I must say, the fact that nobody has taken us up on this offer doesn't mean that the powers don't exist.

The code of conduct that is imparted to all newly elected MPs including injunctions against speaking out of turn, shouting slogans, waving placards, and marching into the well of the house has been completely ignored.

Dangling the PDP s presidential ticket before the delta region s leading politicians is seen as Obasanjo s strategy to maintain stability and, more importantly, prevent Atiku Abubakar or General Buhari from coming to power.

It required other measures, including military action as provided for by Security Council resolution 940 (1994) and an imminent invasion to bring the Haitian military to the negotiating table and to bring about a political settlement.

Moreover, allusion to subjective, self serving and baseless historical claims over the territory of other States is, as the recent Persian Gulf crisis best illustrates, nothing but a dangerous political minefield with catastrophic consequences, a true Pandora apos s box that the international community would rather have not opened.

Israel s reluctance to rattle its nuclear saber, even in dire circumstances, adds to the mystery. In the Yom Kippur War, as Syrian forces threatened to break the country s defensive lines, Israeli decision makers recoiled even from threatening to use nuclear weapons.

But Erdoğan s threat to consider using the Turkish navy as a military escort for further flotillas to Gaza already borders on saber rattling, as does his declared willingness to use force to prevent the Republic of Cyprus from exploring for gas in its continental shelf.

The doctrine according to which great powers, many of them nuclear armed, try to stop lesser powers from acquiring nuclear weapons by force and threats of force a fiasco in Iraq, nuclear armed North Korea, and now Iran has reached a dead end.

In a football match, the rituals the flag waving, the national anthems, the collective chants and the language that is employed (the match starts with a breakout of hostilities, one bombs the goal, blows up the defense, launches missile ) reinforce the perception of war by other means.

The withdrawal of UNPROFOR while the power vacuum continues an idea that is being floated would be a further step towards handing the protected areas to the aggressors, who have the necessary power to control them. This would certainly have negative implications for international relations as a whole.