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By cleverly flexing their paddle to create more drag on the power stroke than on the recovery stroke, single-celled organisms like paramecia manage to inch their way through the crowd of water molecules.
Leslie Nielsen is flexing his comedy muscle to the full extent as if saying: You ain't seen nothing yet.
When you're young, you're not too critical of flexing rubber swords, campy acting, and scenes that are repeated.
I could see Meryl Streep really flexing her always considerable acting muscles on a role like this.
That conflict was forgotten for two decades after the end of the Cold War, because Russia’s internal travails and Germany’s desire to demonstrate its post-unification harmlessness kept both powers from flexing their muscles.
But China can best avoid similar tragedies not by flexing its muscles, but by building greater multilateral cooperation to combat transnational crime along the Mekong.
Turkey seeks to re-establish its Islamic identity and “Ottoman” influence over the Middle East, thereby flexing its diplomatic muscles for a European Union that has all but rejected Turkish membership.
For no matter which way the vote went, and even with its withdrawal, the European Parliament, by flexing its muscles as it did, would still have emerged strengthened.
Within the industry, aggressive large firms, including many from China, are now flexing their muscles on the global stage.
Israel could then mimic other nuclear-armed states by flexing its capacity through announcement and transparent nuclear deployment on land and sea, thereby promoting deterrence.
In the South China Sea, China has built artificial islands and militarized them with airstrips and defense facilities; and it is flexing its naval muscles with a newly minted aircraft carrier group, with more on the way.
By increasing oil and gas prices, or limiting supplies, flexing its military muscles in Georgia, or sending ships to Cuba and Venezuela to parade Russia’s power on the world stage, Putin has convinced many people that Russia is back.
Instead of an expansionist Russian empire confronting Imperial Britain, it is now a China hungry for land, water, and raw materials that is flexing its muscles, encroaching on Himalayan redoubts and directly challenging India.
By going after one of Putin’s ministers, Sechin appeared to be flexing his muscles, perhaps believing that this would prove his readiness as a prime-time political player.
In addition to issues like climate change, there is also a sense that other players are flexing their muscles.
Similarly, China is flexing its military muscles in the South China Sea and along its disputed border with India.
For example, while the US was distracted by the Middle East’s protracted and fluid conflicts, China tested the country’s resolve by flexing its own muscles, most obviously in the South China Sea.
Russia is also flexing its muscles over the question of Kosovo’s future, raising objections in the United Nations Security Council to the UN’s plan for independence and openly supporting Serbia’s quest to maintain its supremacy over Kosovo.
They cannot possibly do this by flexing their muscles, but only by vibrating them.
With both secular and Islamist parties flexing their muscles, drafting a new constitution has been particularly challenging.
A rudderless US foreign policy is no response to a resurgent and neo-authoritarian Russia flexing its geopolitical muscle.
Germany has recently taken a more anti-American stance (perhaps for electoral reasons), but it is beginning to like flexing its independent foreign-policy muscles.
North Korea is flexing its nuclear muscles.
Russia’s Future and the WestRussia is again seeking a role as a global power and is therefore flexing its muscles.
But under Xi, spreading disinformation, exercising economic leverage, flexing military muscle, and running targeted influence operations have become China’s favorite tools for getting its way.
But at the same time, China is exploiting the pandemic by flexing its muscles in Hong Kong and the South China Sea.
In addition to a revisionist Russia seeking opportunities for zero-sum gains wherever it can find them, an increasingly assertive China is flexing its muscles in Asia and on the world stage.
But EU-Russia diplomacy is not the only area where Macron has been flexing his muscles.
It should show that maturity not by flexing its muscles and fighting for more territory, but by providing the EU with much-needed vision and direction.