There was much aggressive posturing, bowing, beating of half-open wings.

Leslie Moonves, the president of CBS Television, denied using any undue pressure, saying there had been aggressive posturing on both sides.

"As a general rule, aggressive posturing is not allowed," Squadron Leader Haworth said.

But the assumption had been that any Tholian incursion would come after a breakdown in negotiations, or after some aggressive posturing on their part.

In November the carrier moved to the Persian Gulf in response to aggressive Iraqi posturing.

They are, of course, all as scientifically illiterate as each other, for all their aggressive posturing.

By aggressive posturing, the other European countries "exposed themselves to the risk of a series of humiliating and very public compromises."

The peace women were so anxious not to emulate the aggressive posturing of the male of the species that sometimes they ended up just looking a bit wet.

The party was occasionally harassed by groups of Inuit aboard kayak and umiak, but successfully suppressed the occasional aggressive posturing and developed good trading relations.

It is clear that a dictator cannot be cowed merely by aggressive posturing.