Tom is a bully.

I'm not a bully.

Go and beat up that bully.

He just loves to bully people.

You were a bully in high school.

Pick on somebody your own size, you bully.

And what of the Constitution, That bully of last resort?

The US is perceived as a giant bully throwing its weight around.

The results were then regularly used behind the scenes to bully, intimidate, and coerce targets.

So I dove through the inner tube, and the bully of the camp grabbed my ankles.

If China becomes a bully in the Asia Pacific region, other countries will join the US to confront it.

The older children bully the little ones. They learn to survive. They learn to defend themselves, or they go under.

The Germans did but the Japanese did not, infuriating the US Treasury Secretary, who tried his best to bully Japan.

Turkey s arrival as a regional power is different in that its democratic structures make an active peacemaker, not a local bully.

This brings us to the IMF s fourth role, namely using its bully pulpit to warn of risks created by large country policies.

However, unlike President Alan Garcia of Peru, who Chávez may be trying to bully, Chávez has been forced to recognize Uribe s enormous popularity.

In 2007, during his first presidential campaign, he wrote that America can neither retreat from the world nor try to bully it into submission.

If Putin is able to portray his attack on Ukraine as a success, Russia will continue to bully and posture on the international stage.

Of course, our movement was created out of opposition opposition to corruption, opposition to surrendering our national independence, opposition to the rule of the bully.

During the last half century, America has been a reasonably good steward of international stability a kind of benign bully operating in the collective interest.

Lam argued with the police, asking them why they did not protect the FLG's freedom of expression and allow the youth association to bully them.

It means engagement whereby America should not seek to bully, intimidate, cajole, or persuade others to accept our unique values or to share our national objectives.

It may be incorrect to call Turkey s behavior neo Ottoman, but some neighboring countries, after expecting a mediator and facilitator, may now feel faced by a possible bully.

There is little doubt that the US, like all great powers, has embarked on foolish wars and acted like a bully, especially toward nations in its own hemisphere.

So the more a Western government allows its policemen to humiliate and bully Muslims in the name of security, the more ISIS is likely to win European recruits.

Unless Americans see the images and narratives that shape how others see us, the US will not be able to overcome its reputation as the world s half blind bully.

Kim s hope must be that, by showing off his nuclear arsenal, he can bully the US, Japan, and South Korea into helping him to resolve some of his regime s domestic crises.

Most seriously, doubts persist about his commitment to democracy, with critics arguing he s an old style African big man ready to bully opponents and ravage the public coffers with his cronies.

This brings us to the IMF s fourth role, namely using its bully pulpit to warn of risks created by large country policies. Small countries are subject to market discipline, as any Latvian will tell you.

If the proximity talks are replaced with direct talks in which the US is not physically inside the negotiating room, there is no guarantee that the stronger partner will not try to bully the weaker one.

One year ago, the US tried to bully the world into supporting an unprovoked war, claiming that anybody who didn't believe in Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was either a fool or an accomplice of terrorists.

The US government under President Richard Nixon pressed the Germans and Japanese to revalue their currencies. The Germans did but the Japanese did not, infuriating the US Treasury Secretary, who tried his best to bully Japan.

Russia has reminded the world that it is possible to bully one s neighbors and steal their territory using brute force but, in a globalized, multi polar system, this alone will not be enough to rally other countries to its cause.

There is little doubt that the US, like all great powers, has embarked on foolish wars and acted like a bully, especially toward nations in its own hemisphere. But, even without invoking the ghosts of Munich, there are occasions when military force is the only way to deal with a tyrant.