Unemployment is rising and with it populist posturing.

Outside all was glitter, excess, posturing, and brand names.

Political posturing and outlandish claims foreclosing any possibility of compromise?

Posturing over Kashmir remains the best way of doing that.

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

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

It's not so much his bragging as his posturing that bothers me.

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

This will expose the EGF to wasteful political posturing and lobbying by countries and sectors.

But there will be heated debate and considerable posturing over what should and should not be done.

European ministers flexing their muscles and posturing over whether they can help the Greek people or not.

Anyone familiar with the aggressively nationalist posturing of Russian state controlled media nowadays knows the danger of this.

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

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

But no amount of posturing can offset the disintegration of the economy s material base caused by the new equilibrium in the oil market.

Of course, some criticisms of technocratic remedies may be populist posturing, but sometimes they contain insights that ivory towered (and usually US trained) technocrats miss.

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 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.

Trump, for one, also promotes greed, openly boasting of his wealth, and has somehow refined outlandish hubris and contradictory posturing into a bizarre form of charisma.

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.

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.

Iraqi politicians have not been exempt from posturing for political gain. The government committed a number of blunders in its negotiations on the continued presence of US troops.

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.

Given this, it is worth asking whether the latest slogan adopted by Chinese officials Asia for Asians is merely nationalist posturing for domestic consumption or a signal of a genuine policy shift.

Blogger Hip Hop Law writes about how the song reflects the political posturing where those responsible for the disaster resorted to shameless finger pointing in order to minimize the toll of liability.

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.

If the large states are to obtain similar gains, and their politicians are to recover voters respect, their governments will have to accept the small state logic and abandon the Great Power posturing of the past.

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.

If Nato rejects the Baltic states it will need to prevent Moscow from interpreting that decision as confirmation that Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania remain locked within Russia s sphere of influence and that its Great Power posturing has paid off.

If Nato rejects the Baltic states it will need to prevent Moscow from interpreting that decision as confirmation that Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania remain locked within Russia s sphere of influence and that its Great Power posturing has paid off.

On Facebook, academic Fabio Malini warned politicians of the dangers of posturing against minority rights and reminded them of the demands of mass protests that took place in the country in June 2013, whose effects are still very visible

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.

Ahmadinejad s vision at the UN could be dismissed as political posturing if it weren t for a string of similar statements and actions that suggest he believes that he is destined to bring about the End Times the end of the world by paving the way for the return of the Shia Muslim messiah.

Of course, some criticisms of technocratic remedies may be populist posturing, but sometimes they contain insights that ivory towered (and usually US trained) technocrats miss. Consider the case of Mexico, where a proposal to raise revenue by taxing food and medicines consumed by the poor was, unsurprisingly, rejected by a democratically accountable legislature.

As a last resort, the EU must even be prepared to rise to the military defense of the values and principles it believes are worth protecting. 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.

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. One of the most plausible scenarios in response to calls by governments and politicians around the world to reduce or even eliminate dependence on oil is a relative decline in investment in additional production capacity in the oil producing countries.