Word: bravado
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...Nasser Hamoud Ali, speaks confidently of tracking down the men. "We will find them," he says, as he loads up a Nissan pickup with the recovered goods. "We know the killers and the people know them, so it will be easy." It may not be easy to maintain such bravado amid the danger that Iraq's police face. But many Baghdad policemen believe things will soon get better. "If they stop the terrorists coming in," says Dhahir, "the police could control the situation inside Iraq...
...can’t manufacture confidence, at least not that way. That strut, that bravado, that knowledge that you’re untouchable. Only winning can give a team that confidence. And this year, early in the season, the Crimson didn?...
True, the chant of “D-fense” in the closing minutes lacked the bravado that befit the situation, and after the 78-71 Harvard victory hit the books a paltry six people rushed the court while the rest of the confused crowd looked...
...Islamic militant was defiant. In court Sheikh had his lawyer read a threat to Pakistan's President: "Let's see who dies first, me or Musharraf." Now, after two bomb attempts in December on President Pervez Musharraf's life, investigators are treating Sheikh's warning as more than just bravado. Most of the dozen or so plotters who twice placed bombs on Musharraf's motorcade route belonged to Jaish-e-Muhammad, an outlawed militant group of which Sheikh was a top member and which had ties to al-Qaeda, according to Islamabad sources familiar with the case...
...Islamic militant was defiant. In court Sheikh had his lawyer read a threat to Pakistan's President: "Let's see who dies first, me or Musharraf." Now, after two bomb attempts in December on President Pervez Musharraf's life, investigators are treating Sheikh's warning as more than just bravado. Most of the dozen or so plotters who twice placed bombs on Musharraf's motorcade route belonged to Jaish-e-Muhammad, an outlawed militant group of which Sheikh was a top member and which had ties to al-Qaeda, according to Islamabad sources familiar with the case...