saber rattling in English

noun
1
the display or threat of military force.
noun
    sabre rattling

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1. Saber rattling that set the stage for war.

2. This is just North Korean saber rattling, pure and simple.

3. A peaceful talk should be arranged prior to any saber rattling.

4. He very rarely puts his threat into practice - usually it's just saber – rattling.

5. As to the Taiwan independence movement, some politicians feel China is just saber rattling.

6. It is still too early to say whether your opponent's threats were mere saber rattling .

7. Sometimes the U.S. can be serious; it is not just saber rattling toward other nations.

8. Despite the saber rattling, most union leaders are not inclined to call for general strikes or mass pickets.

9. Though occupied with his lonely struggle to unify gravity and electromagnetism in a single mathematical framework, he watched Germany's saber rattling with alarm.

10. From that point on, Dulles was associated with the concepts of “massive retaliation” and “Brinksmanship,” a supposedly reckless combination of atomic saber rattling and eyeball-to-eyeball standoffs

11. Japan has been engaged in efforts to improve its sea-borne based ballistic missile defense capabilities in the wake of North Korean missile tests and saber rattling.