But with Spain the opponents, don't expect too much chest-thumping.

The dispute gave the Obama campaign a chance to indulge in some political chest-thumping.

Bluffing and chest-thumping are a big part of the Iranian game plan.

All this was many moons and much chest-thumping ago.

Not the chest-thumping, strutting egotism we see and read about all the time.

But it is hard to imagine how such chest-thumping could affect the domestic political arrangements of a vast country like China.

Today, the administration’s chest-thumping over the State of the Union address is illustrative.

The tendency is to dismiss that sort of chest-thumping as campaign nonsense, but in Bush's case it appears to be true.

What you won't find in this document are jingoist chest-thumping and calls for a bigger military budget.

This chest-thumping is being portrayed as a modest extension of the Clinton administration's space policy issued a decade ago.

But this is no time for chest-thumping.

The fruit of such grace can never be public chest-thumping and the denigration of others.

But they look past heavy metal's chest-thumping and self-importance to find the worried kid behind the din.

The reason Romney slouched away from his neoconservative chest-thumping of the past year is simple: people don't like it.

It also contains a bit of chest-thumping about the role of the Obama administration's policies in helping get an economic recovery going.

Strong action, special effects and by far the most credible ape “performances” yet seen will spell box office to inspire chest-thumping in all markets.

The deluge still could not obscure the chest-thumping on the scoreboards around the stadium, all five of them.

For all the chest-thumping, though, China’s leaders are more cautious than either their underlings or the state-controlled publishing industry.

For all the usual New York chest-thumping about how nothing gets us down, we've now shown that our knees can buckle.

Otherwise, the media campaign will be nothing more than noise drumming up support with a frantic chest-thumping that leads nowhere.

Because these Cuban exiles, for all their chest-thumping and terrorism, are really just a bunch of wimps.

It used to be that men "conquered" mountains in a cacophony of gratuitous chest-thumping.

It's then a 12-footer for eagle which he makes with every inch of the chest-thumping he displayed off the tee.

But his demeanor was in stark contrast to the recent chest-thumping rhetoric that has been on display during the labor dispute.