saber-rattling

The White House's saber-rattling against the American judiciary, a body conceived to hold government officials and elected politicians in check, prompted a rare rebuke from Supreme Court chief justice John G. Roberts.

Trump has kept to his saber-rattling words.

That may be what Trump’s saber-rattling, in the end, is all about.

And, overall, the tone is much more contentious than during the West Coast negotiations, where there was relatively little saber-rattling and few people on either side viewed a strike as a serious threat.

In a statement Monday, after the labor board’s most recent ruling against the university system, UAW Local 4811 President Rafael Jaime called on “UC to face reality,” charging it with “legal saber-rattling.”