manoeuvre

Definition:
1. A movement performed with care and skill.
2. A clever plan, action or movement that is used to give somebody an advantage.

Use 'manoeuvre' in a sentence:

• 1. The lack of money severely limits their room for manoeuvre.
• 2. "Did you have any trouble?" Byron asked, driving into a small parking lot and changing the subject in the same neat manoeuvre.
• 3. The grand manoeuvres will be held tomorrow.
• 4. The authorities have to manoeuvre the markets into demanding a cut in interest rates.
• 5. Normally, the station can be moved out of the way of a piece of junk, but this alert was raised too late for such a manoeuvre.
• 6. This was a crafty manoeuvre.
• 7. I manoeuvred my way among the tables to the back corner of the place.
• 8. Protection against external shocks gave Poland's policymakers plenty of room for manoeuvre.
• 9. Field manoeuvres are very important in police training.
• 10. The surplus countries have the biggest room for manoeuvre.
• 11. Its freedom of manoeuvre was greater than it seemed.
• 12. The camp was used for military manoeuvres.
• 13. Intel's "Silicon Commander", for instance, lets users manoeuvre a fleet of robots through a host of IT-related dangers.
• 14. The president has tried to manoeuvre the campaign away from himself.
• 15. Cold-war terminology implied that third-world countries had limited room for independent manoeuvre.
• 16. He brilliantly manoeuvred himself back to power.
• 17. Most use electrically driven propellers or thrusters to manoeuvre.
• 18. However, the narrow channel manoeuvre safety theory is not yet in full shape.
• 19. The kind of defence we want is not something akin to the Maginot Line, but more like manoeuvre warfare.
• 20. There was very little room to manoeuvre.
• 21. She manoeuvred her car into a difficult parking space.
• 22. Spain's low debt burden creates some room for manoeuvre.
• 23. The clutter of ships had little room to manoeuvre.
• 24. With an election looming, he has little room for manoeuvre.
• 25. That will severely limit Obama's room for manoeuvre at the Copenhagen talks.
• 26. Normally, mission control can move the station out of the way, but today's alert was raised too late for such a manoeuvre.
• 27. Set tongues wagging with an unexpected manoeuvre that limited the minority's ability to demand symbolic votes on doomed amendments.
• 28. Yet the Europeans still see room for manoeuvre.
• 29. But the manoeuvre, once rare, has become commonplace.
• 30. Engineer is able to manoeuvre the main engine in the former procedure.
• 31. Inverted flight is an acrobatic manoeuvre of the plane.
• 32. Eventually burgeoning debt will limit the room for fiscal manoeuvre, and politicians may balk at renewed stimulus long before then.
• 33. But his room for manoeuvre is a lot more limited than it was even a month ago.
• 34. Picking the pockets of investors and savers is a historically validated manoeuvre to rebalance sovereign balance sheets.
• 35. She manoeuvred her way to the top of the company.
• 36. The rest were all somewhat stooping, as though watching the manoeuvres of this last.
• 37. Since then, Mrs Merkel's room for manoeuvre has narrowed.
• 38. Her withdrawal from the contest was a tactical manoeuvre.
• 39. It said the three-day manoeuvre would use Russian-made Sukhoi and Iranian-made Saegheh jet fighters.
• 40. Given the questions of how to manoeuvre in the dark, what solutions might an engineer consider?
• 41. Where a country has fiscal room for manoeuvre, it should by all means use it, the IMF argues.
• 42. Normally, the station can use thrusters to move out of the way of a piece of junk, but this alert was raised too late for such a manoeuvre.
• 43. Some analysts believe he has made a canny political manoeuvre.
• 44. With great difficulty, the fisherman manoeuvred his small craft close to the reef.
• 45. The chopper shot upward in a manoeuvre matched by the other pilot.
• 46. We attempted to manoeuvre the canoe closer to him.
• 47. She manoeuvred the car carefully into the garage.
• 48. He manoeuvres to foster recovery.
• 49. That will allow them to manoeuvre the satellite into the shuttle's cargo bay.
• 50. You will be asked to perform some standard manoeuvres during your driving test.
• 51. The yachts manoeuvred for position.
• 52. The new laws have left us little room to manoeuvre.