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And now that anger over the effects of globalization is boiling over and rattling the very foundations of Western societies.
Miscalculation and saber rattling led to several more near-misses before activism by civil-society groups triggered a cascade of nuclear-arms reductions, reinforced by the Cold War’s end.
Rattling the RenminbiBEIJING – From July 2005 until this past December, China’s renminbi (RMB) appreciated steadily.
Question 7: Will the leadership in Beijing respond to domestic discontent with more of the foreign-policy saber rattling that we have seen this year?
Prior to engaging the FARC in secret talks in Cuba, Santos’s regional diplomacy shifted the region’s politics from saber rattling to the hard work of cooperation.
Today, doubts about the Chinese economy’s long-term prospects are rattling stock markets worldwide (including in the US).
A ‘China First’ Strategy for North KoreaLONDON – Most pundits agree that the least bad way to deal with North Korea’s nuclear saber rattling is a continued combination of tight containment and aggressive diplomacy.
Like millions of other people in New York City, I heard Hurricane Sandy rattling my windows and battering my doors.
If we are to prevent the UK from rattling to pieces, we have to change the way we govern ourselves.
But while these penalties are generating frightening headlines – and rattling investors – it is the recent tax bill passed by the US Congress that will do more to exacerbate trade tensions between the US and China.
During Trump’s first two weeks, his administration consisted of just a few aides rattling around in the White House.
It would be a mistake for NATO to respond to Russia’s provocations with similar saber rattling.
Recent changes within the administration that do not necessarily affect economic policymaking are also rattling the markets.
Surely diplomacy and other subtler forms of engagement would go further toward changing a country’s standards than saber rattling and trade warfare ever could.
And a trade war with China, which Trump had tweeted would be “good, and easy to win,” entered a new, more dangerous phase, rattling markets and posing the threat of a new cold war.
It was a continuous rattling which guided the workers; and now it seemed to be beneath their very picks.
Already I no longer felt the bulkiness of my clothes, footwear, and air tank, nor the weight of the heavy sphere inside which my head was rattling like an almond in its shell.
It was a heavy rainfall rattling on the surface of the waves.
The warm smell of poultices mingled in his brain with the fresh odour of dew; he heard the iron rings rattling along the curtain-rods of the bed and saw his wife sleeping.
"No," she replied; "it is a window that has been left open, and is rattling in the wind."
He stood up, his handkerchief to his lips, with a rattling sound in his throat, weeping, and choked by sobs that shook his whole body.
Frances threw herself on a sofa, buried her head under its cushion, and with her shawl drawn over her face, to exclude as much of sound as possible, continued there until the shouts of the combatants, the rattling of the firearms, and the thundering tread of the horses had ceased.
Her eyes were after the coach which was rattling away to Berwick, and suddenly she shook her handkerchief in the air.
But behind the thunder of the guns there rose a sharper, shriller noise, whirring and rattling, the wildest, jauntiest, most stirring kind of sound.
The guns, too, came bounding and rattling forward, and our light cavalry--as much as was left of it--kept pace with our brigade upon the right.
She was sensible of the justice of what I said, but told me, since there had been such a clamour among them, and that her younger son talked after such a rattling way as he did, she desired I would be so faithful to her as to answer her but one question sincerely.
They struggled in this manner with a rattling in their throats, writhing in the horror of their caresses.
They heard, I say, strokes falling with a measured beat, and a certain rattling of iron and chains that, together with the furious din of the water, would have struck terror into any heart but Don Quixote's.
There was a rattling noise in the throat--a glare of the eye--a short stifled groan--and he fell back--dead!'It would afford us the highest gratification to be enabled to record Mr. Pickwick's opinion of the foregoing anecdote.
A rattling noise at a little distance attracted their attention.
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