brandishing

The sort of chest-thumping, rule-brandishing nitpickery that's the order of the day is an intimidating turn-off for a large swathe of people.

For brandishing his own personal form of social justice, Nifong was disgraced and disbarred and shortly thereafter, went bankrupt.

Look at that picture of the dude on top of the APC brandishing the mounted gun.

Depending on the state, brandishing a weapon, which is exactly what he did, is itself illegal.

Wait a minute, so you are ok with brandishing a knife, but not a gun?

Even under stress, even when taunted, actually especially in stressful situations should cops not go ape-shit and start screaming obscenities while brandishing guns.

The assassin then leaped upon the stage, brandishing a large dagger or knife, and made his escape in the rear of the theatre.

The police will arrest of you brandishing a weapon, CPL or not.

Now I'm the guy who spends money on something that doesn't work, but keeps brandishing it, perhaps for some ego reason.

> People tend not to be interested overmuch in hearing what the side brandishing the rape and death threats thinks.

They need a law against brandishing a firearm.

In which an out-of-uniform CHP officer is brandishing a gun in the face of a photographer while another plain-dressed CHP officers wearing a bandana over his face tackles a protester.

Your link is so much more relevant than the thousands of people taking the streets brandishing "Je suis Charlie" signs when the terrorists are still at large.

With "claymore" I picture a Scot brandishing a sword as large as he is, even though it can also refer to a modern military weapon.

Moving to intercept." In your example, the suspicious factors are "wielding/brandishing a weapon in the absence of a known threat" and "possible suspect or witness to a violent crime".

Well the very next sentence continues "This page exists only to help migrate existing data encrypted by TrueCrypt" which could easily be read as a prepared response to the person brandishing the NSL who is now annoyed that the authors have suddenly decided that right NOW is an 'entirely natural' time to end the project.

Brandishing isn't something a gun is for, i'm sorry.

Brandishing and open carry are entirely different things.

Brandishing is intentional failure to conceal.