Regular refs blow calls, too, a fact that seems to have been forgotten amid the bluster.
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But for all the bluster, the Kremlin remains wary, to put it politely, of really cracking down on mafia-controlled businesses.
So far, for all the bluster on both sides of the Atlantic, the political war has remained largely one of words.
Nonetheless, behind the shuffling and the bluster, skilled negotiators began from the start to work out quietly how the odyssey could end successfully, even swiftly.
But if you ignored all of the bluster and one-liners and instead focused on the policies the candidates were proposing, they were basically reading from the same script.
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Beneath all the bluster, signs of conciliation are increasingly emerging.
For all the bluster about the Big Ten being the heart and soul of basketball, it has just one national championship in the last 23 years Michigan State in 2000.
For all the bluster as Anadarko Petroleum balks at BP's demands it contribute to cleanup costs in the Gulf of Mexico, the most likely result is some form of settlement.
That tiny percentage is where all the bluster, hot air, and rhetoric is aimed at because those voters decide the election, whilst the vast majority of American is stubborn enough to stick with their party and denigrate supporters on the other side.
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"For all the bluster, I think, in the end, my hope is that people would all come together and that we'll find a way to evaluate teachers, reward the best, give some help to those that aren't doing a great job, " he said during a brief radio appearance Friday morning.
In the prehistoric era, the guy with the most bluster probably brought home the most bison.
Obama administration officials see the letter as a sign that Iran is feeling the strain of sustained economic pressure, and they suspect the recent bluster may be designed to create the impression that Tehran is entering a new round of diplomacy from a position of strength rather than weakness.
Journalist and actor Fernando Angelo focused on the supposed tendency to bluster of the Argentine "hermanos" (brothers), especially when it comes to football, claiming that the "Argentines are already saying that the new Pope is better than Pele!"
In truth, the takeover talk may all be bluster--so far, the only name tipped as a possible buyer was General Electric, a prospect quickly nixed with the release of GE earnings.
Despite his trademark bluster, the 55-year-old Iranian president is visiting New York with Tehran in a weaker position than in previous years.
First, Russian bluster in the past proved counter-productive.
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The economic story over the remaining months of 2012 may be more important to this vital diplomacy than the election result in the U.S. For all the room Republicans have as challengers to bluster about China and other matters abroad, the choices come 2013 will be narrower, not least for that fiscal vise that will grip Washington.
For all of the neo-con's unipolar bluster, America will have to seek multilateral solutions to many of the political and economic challenges facing it worldwide to maintain peace abroad and prosperity at home.
And hopefully, he will not bluster and cow the senators into submission by losing his temper.
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Even the elder Dixon boy, Merle, for all his bluster and bigotry, wants to be part of the collective.
His son soaked up his father's mastery of the clothing business but not his bluster.
Greece may be a small economy, but a Greek departure from the euro, amid brinkmanship and bluster, would not be a small event.
Knowing next to nothing about the business, Lee-Chin relied on bluster and drive.
In Singapore Robert Gates, America's defence secretary, met his Japanese and South Korean counterparts, to reassure them in the face of North Korea's nuclear bluster.
There's hype, there's bluster, there's exaggeration and the unmistakable flicker of a new urban legend.
They, too, are capable of bluster but prudence would seem to be the order of the day if economic reform is indeed to be the Chinese priority.
Earlier, at a separate hearing in Congress, Mr. Clapper played down the latest spate of escalatory talk, suggesting it was bluster.
She was pregnant at the time and there was a lot of news media bluster about a pregnant woman leading a high-pressure communications company.
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