Hezbollah has tightened its grip on southern Lebanon, and is flexing its muscles in Beirut.
Perhaps in compensation for its business losses, the army seems to be flexing its muscles.
Meanwhile, in the Shiite-dominated south of Lebanon, Hezbollah has been flexing its muscles to aid the Syrian government.
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Only that, they say, will convince their voters that, with Russia flexing its muscles nearby, sending troops to Afghanistan is worth it.
It is made harder by Mr Toledo's administrative inexperience, and by his lack of a reliable majority in Congress, which is flexing its muscles after a decade of submission to Mr Fujimori.
The partnership with Spotify signifies how Facebook is flexing its muscles in the media space, offering services that keep people within the social network, rather than scouring other parts of the web for content.
By flexing its muscles so eagerly, over a relatively minor incident, it alarmed its customers and possibly frightened them off, when a softer approach might have lulled them into continued and deepening dependence.
While Twenty20 cricket may have started out as a bit of a hit-and-giggle contest it is now a serious, serious business which is flexing its muscles as the world of cricket steps into a whole new era.
Moscow's flexing of its muscles in the energy sector - which saw state-owned firm Gazprom temporarily cut off gas supplies to neighbouring Ukraine - as well as new rules for the foreign ownership of Russian companies and export tax rises, all have implications for BP.
Such developments reflect, too, a generational change in Brazil's highly professional foreign service: older diplomats, who worked during the cold war and Brazil's 1964-85 dictatorship, are giving way to younger ones, who feel that the world's ninth-largest economy should be less shy of flexing its democratic muscles.
Target will soon be flexing its omni-channel muscles with its new service, code-named Cartwheel, which will integrate online and mobile channels, offering features like coupons, rebates, and price comparisons.
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