manoeuvre

[məˈnuːvər]

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

'manoeuvre' example 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.