How To Use Manoeuvre In A Sentence

‘The majority of costs are wage costs; there is very little room for manoeuvre,’ he said.
When the matador realises the bull is weak and unable to charge much longer he will reach for his killing sword and seek to manoeuvre it directly in front of him with its head down, so that he can administer the death stroke.
It is surprisingly easy to manoeuvre and far less treacherous than parasailing. Times, Sunday Times
He was then able to manoeuvre some of his cavalry on to the hilltop and fight the Saxons on level ground.
Another restrictive manoeuvre gets under way. Times, Sunday Times

The vessel could be manoeuvred with its bow thrusters to bring the stern ramp very close to the two men to whom life belts and/or ropes were thrown.
Better prepared and more aggressive, he unexpectedly outmanoeuvred the prime minister.
The action on a Harrow mosque again saw the chunky thugs in Lenin's term comprehensively outnumbered and outmanoeuvred Sonic Truth
The law in this area is very strict and doesn't allow us much room for manoeuvre.
An early manoeuvre involves a U-turn across one of the epic avenues of central BeiJing. Times, Sunday Times
He was a mediocre speaker, uncomfortable in circumstances of political manoeuvre, often either too hesitant or too precipitate in action, and wedded to a proud independence that interfered with the building of successful alliances.
In their opening and closing games England's lumbering back four were hopelessly outmanoeuvred by bursts of fast, mobile, unpredictable attacks, like tankers anchored as speedboats darted around them.
On deck, Freyen was looking at the manoeuvres to dock the vessel with a serious look on his face.
It has a very wide flight envelope, which allows a huge amount of manoeuvres. Times, Sunday Times
Pontoppidan, speaks also of a poulp on which a regiment of cavalry could manoeuvre. Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The hostile gang was temporarily disconcerted by the manoeuvre, then it dashed from the train in pursuit. Chapter 42
In 1936, 1,200 men in the Red Army parachuted during manoeuvres near Kiev.
But when the FBI or customs officers come calling, there is little room for manoeuvre.
To me, it is reminiscent of an old corporation dustcart, not dissimilar to the one seen in the 1971 feature film when the Dads Army platoon hitch a ride back to Walmington-On-Sea from their manoeuvres (thank you Anoneumouse). And now... the European Army
By this time other drivers behind us were likewise being highly discourteous with horns and headlights, displaying negative opinions on his ill considered manoeuvre.
Steering is very light and the car is surprisingly flexible; the turning circle is quite tight, making it easy to manoeuvre in tight spaces once you've got used to the size.
The aircraft's fixed-wing profile with large wing leading edge root extensions gives good manoeuvrability and control at subsonic speed including manoeuvres at high angles of attack.
English football has just about exhausted its room for manoeuvre in the domestic market.
In general, factions within the parties control the branches and manoeuvre for control of seats or regions which then become their fiefdoms - new members which they do not control are a threat.
The females manoeuvre for position in the middle of the shoal - with the biggest in the centre.
Spanish spies had been observing the training manoeuvres and other preparations of the French fleet. CHRISTINA QUEEN OF SWEDEN: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
They normally wear Home Service review order dress as would have been worn on garrison duties and manoeuvres during the latter part of the nineteenth century.
Caught off guard, she is trapped between two foes who want to remove her from the action and she is completely outmanoeuvred. Times, Sunday Times
It was a flatbottomed outrigged deal boat, very long, and so narrow that to look over one's shoulder in it was a manoeuvre of extreme delicacy, especially where the rapids caused the water to be in wild commotion. Two Summers in Guyenne
I had a split-second opportunity to do an avoiding manoeuvre and that was it. Times, Sunday Times
Unable to present a viable alternative, the royalists were outmanoeuvred, sidelined and, in 1998, defeated.
These were more difficult to manoeuvre, but they could carry bowmen and projectiles in their castles and were more suitable for boarding an enemy, even if oar-power remained the handiest means finally to position a warship.
Elop used his emotive language to illustrate that Nokia was being outmanoeuvred by Google's Android operating system and Apple's iPhone. In brand value, things go worse for Coke
The high pitched whine of the armoured cars as they manoeuvred round the narrow streets filled me with dread.
The mid-air catch manoeuvre has been resurrected from the days of the Cold War.
He said a consulting engineer will be talking to Kildare County Council with regard to traffic manoeuvres in the area and it would be premature to put in traffic calming on the Sycamores Road.
Again, I cannot interfere in that, but I need to know what they are doing, and I think there is therefore room for manoeuvre in that matter.
Contractors started taking down fencing and told residents it was easier for them to manoeuvre their vehicles if people started parking on the curbs.
The exchanges were dynamic and carefree with both sets of defences mournfully looking on as they were outgunned and outmanoeuvred.
The chandelle is not a combat manoeuvre to get you a kill shot with your guns.
By 1987 it was clear that the grieving period was over as politicians manoeuvred for supremacy.
A thin catheter is fed into a blood vessel in the groin and gently manoeuvred into the blocked coronary artery. Times, Sunday Times
I was a bump in Mum's tummy, but my two older sisters were there when you were manoeuvred into place. A letter to … our old family kitchen table
This sort of manoeuvre must have been what one shadow cabinet colleague had in mind when he privately described the politician as ‘an extremely fly operator’.
A careful driver will often stop talking before carrying out a complex manoeuvre.
I had a split-second opportunity to do an avoiding manoeuvre and that was it. Times, Sunday Times
The lorry stops beside the new hay barn and the men unstring the round bails and manoeuvre them onto the ground.
Somehow, the complex high-speed manoeuvres and fluid movements seem to come naturally to a small child.
Despite its size, it is agile enough to hustle along country lanes, cruises comfortably at motorway speeds and is easy to manoeuvre around town. The Sun
The perch outside one of the boxes has slipped and Don was trying to manoeuvre it back into position when a rosella popped her head out from the box to see what was happening.
Most impressively, she manoeuvred the baby and the pram around effortlessly, as though they were merely fashion accessories. Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms
Marlette watched as Rafael manoeuvred the Ford out from behind the truck, then sped off down the dirt road. THE DEVIL'S DOOR
Dr Powers said the helicopter had also been performing a dangerous manoeuvre known as a "bunt" - a rapid descent at speed - that the Puma was not suited for. WalesOnline - Home
The really clever ones manage to get hold of industrial-strength incendiaries, which sound as if the SAS have come to town on manoeuvres.
Witnesses said the pilot had been trying to perform a loop but had emerged from the manoeuvre too close to the ground. Times, Sunday Times
It would seem a shame to turn down such a cunning manoeuvre without a compelling need.
However, these men were used to working in small units and large scale manoeuvres were alien not only to them but to the officers in command of them.
Each of the first three, you can manoeuvre one way or another if you are attempting to stay in a budget. Times, Sunday Times
They must have been clumsy and difficult to manoeuvre as well.
The chemist was indignant at what he called the manoeuvres of the priest; they were prejudicial, he said, to Hippolyte's convalescence, and he kept repeating to Madame Lefrançois, "Leave him alone! leave him alone! Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life
And the Christmas launch date appeared to leave the company little room for manoeuvre should anything go wrong.
Smaller cars are easier to manoeuvre and avoid trouble. Times, Sunday Times
Coverdale worked on generating team spirit and inter-dependence - including manoeuvres on Salisbury Plain that involved treasure hunts and making rope ladders.
He believed he could outmanoeuvre and trap the English king.
Leaf headed his boat around to the small bight where the large power boat was tied, manoeuvred up to her and rafted alongside.
While figure skating involves graceful acrobatic manoeuvres with music in the background, the freestyle performer executes a set of movements tracing a figure on the floor.
The quinquagenarian easily outmanoeuvred a reigning World champion Who Was less than half his age. Times, Sunday Times
The corroboree of native companions (ANTIGONE AUSTRALASIANA) may certainly be the practice of a defensive manoeuvre, though it has the appearance of a graceful dance. My Tropic Isle
This put the board in a tricky position and left her with little room to manoeuvre. The Sun
Now Jim is hoping to out-manoeuvre the yobs with his latest set of wheels - a special edition Triumph Trident motorbike.
The girls found him ‘adorable and soft’ but they knew he was not ‘capable’ of any sexual manoeuvre.
Despite the fact that by his manoeuvre the Arangi had been hove to, he knew that windage and sea-driftage would quickly send her away from the swimming puppy. CHAPTER VI
With national budget positions close to balance or in surplus, countries have ample room for manoeuvre to cope with adverse economic developments.
This one had manoeuvred itself into an exposed position and was climbing in a laboured manner up a twisted, dry vine that was coming away from the tree.
Their players were not only outmuscled, as they were against South Africa in the autumn, but they were tactically outmanoeuvred too. Ireland 24-8 England | Six Nations match report
There is perilously little room for manoeuvre in the group but the stage is set.
The evening came to an end at last, but Kate had yet to be handed downstairs by the detested Sir Mulberry; and so skilfully were the manoeuvres of Messrs Pyke and Pluck conducted, that she and the baronet were the last of the party, and were even — without an appearance of effort or design — left at some little distance behind. Nicholas Nickleby
The inshore lifeboat manoeuvred close inshore to pick up three of the youngsters while the fourth, who had scrambled further up the cliff, was rescued by the Coastguard team by cliff line.
As the women made their protest, motorists began inching up the grass verge to get past their horseboxes, or made a series of tight manoeuvres to turn away.
It gave Allied pilots a major tactical advantage as they were able to tolerate greater G-forces to outmanoeuvre their opponents.
Just about every collective pitch helicopter available should be capable of performing this manoeuvre, but some are more capable than others.
As in the US, there is a sense that the central bank's room for manoeuvre on interest rates is narrowing.
Each competitor tries to manoeuvre the other into making an error or violating the rules and incurring a penalty.
But in the presence of a strong ego identity such manoeuvres would not be necessary.
The missile successfully completed a mid-air manoeuvre and hit a decommissioned ship.
As bad luck would have it, nine German U-boats stumbled across the manoeuvres and torpedoed the ships, sinking two ships and damaging a third.
We were outmanoeuvred and outfought throughout the winter campaign.
ON AUGUST 28th, barring some dark manoeuvre by seething Clintonistas, Barack Obama will accept the Democratic nomination for the presidency.
Wal bein as I was anchored here hard an fast, I don't exactly see how I could manage to go through that thar manoeuvre, unless you'd kindly lend me the loan of your steam ingine to do it on. Lost in the Fog
Local warlords refused the offer and the turbine was delivered without loss of life by a brilliant secret manoeuvre through the desert. Times, Sunday Times
There followed a series of political manoeuvres from which one man, the King's brother-in-law, Simon de Montfort, emerged as a somewhat improbable champion of English and baronial interests.
I gingerly manoeuvred it between the gateposts and, as our house is midway between two corners about 100 yards apart and necessitates a quick getaway, I decided to turn left onto the road.
I first became aware of the political instrumentality of religion when manoeuvred into Anglican Confirmation by paternal pressure.
In short, in a country that detests the very idea of reform, the room for manoeuvre is virtually zero.
Anthony manoeuvred his wheelchair out from behind his desk.
Warships at this time were propelled by a number of oarsmen which rowed the boat if it came becalmed or it was necessary to manoeuvre it in battle.
Was his manoeuvre a rush of blood, or a rush of thwarted ambition? Times, Sunday Times
The British traders in the room had been comprehensively outmanoeuvred. Times, Sunday Times
They were "pieces of lead which I used to learn military manoeuvres. CHRISTINA QUEEN OF SWEDEN: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
Rowing conditions were perfect in particular for coxes who have to manoeuvre the course with care and skill.
Helicopters do not fly anything like as high and balloons do not manoeuvre. Times, Sunday Times
Duncan was not so bowed in the intellect as ye imagine, and had some spice of cleverality about his queer manoeuvres. The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
As an animal that spends a great deal of time making small-scale local manoeuvres in its complex, three-dimensional watery home, Inia is especially telling in that it may actually be taking part in a trend toward hyperdactyly, as it bears an extra bone in its flipper that is to all intent and purposes a sixth digit. Archive 2006-09-01
The team was outmanoeuvred physically and mentally.
Having but an indifferent opinion of books ushered into existence by such charlatanical manoeuvres, we thought no more of Omoo, until, musing the other day over our matutinal hyson, the volume itself was laid before us, and we suddenly found ourselves in the entertaining society of Marquesan Melville, the phoenix of modern voyagers, sprung, it would seem, from the mingled ashes of Captain Cook and Robin Crusoe. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847
If there was time we manoeuvred to the outer edge as instructed, knowing that the slightest misjudgement by the driver might easily nudge us over the side.
He manoeuvred his way into the confidence of hers.
Somehow, the complex high-speed manoeuvres and fluid movements seem to come naturally to a small child.
Frightened but quick-witted, the shapely skin diver outmanoeuvres the silent predator and stays low among the coral and such, where the shark can't get her.
By the time he'd corrected his flying, the enemy was already into another evasive manoeuvre. Bomber
They are required to carry out a series of manoeuvres with the 1.5 tonne gun and limber, including changing wheels, moving around a track and firing two salvoes of three shells each.
The torso of a woman in a hoodie failed to fool a police motorcyclist who spotted the driver making a careless manoeuvre. Times, Sunday Times
Initially, however, the gamble seemed to pay off, as the Japanese armed forces outmanoeuvred and outfought their opponents in campaigns which brought victories in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaya, Burma, and the Philippines.
He was therefore determined by any and all means to block Halifax's manoeuvres. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
Then the vans were manoeuvred on to the grass verge so that the new vehicle could come by.
The unit is on manoeuvres in southern Italy.
It was hardly material to be "manoeuvred" into anything! Spice and the Devil's Cave
The mid-air catch manoeuvre has been resurrected from the days of the Cold War.
This year's parade was unique since it involved military manoeuvres for the first time in 17 years.
Her withdrawal from the contest was a tactical manoeuvre.
You seek freedom and space in a romantic involvement and make bold manoeuvres towards a new way of life.
And the Christmas launch date appeared to leave the company little room for manoeuvre should anything go wrong.
From my position of total ignorance on the topic, I can imagine that Mr Tsvangirai could have"outmanoeuvred" Mr Mugabe by getting the leaders of surrounding states to covertly support a civil war of the sort that brought Mr Mugabe himself to power. The BBC, Zimbabwe and some disturbing reporting
The third time I arranged things just so, manoeuvred the syringe into my ear, reaching over the top of my head with my left hand, and squeezed the tiny rubber bulb gently.
Walking the ancient driftway through the marshes, we paused by the derelict drainage mill to watch the aerial manoeuvres of a mixed flight of golden plovers and lapwings.
Lucy picks up Fred's diary dated 1944, but there is no mention of anything domestic, just brief troop movements and manoeuvres and training. SEA MUSIC
Witnesses said the pilot had been trying to perform a loop but had emerged from the manoeuvre too close to the ground. Times, Sunday Times
But the regime's counterattack has outmanoeuvred the poorly disciplined and ill-trained rebels who barely made a stand at Brega before fleeing toward Ajdabiya. Libya: blow to Gaddafi as foreign minister defects to UK
But this is the shadiest manoeuvre I've come across in a month of Sundays! ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
In the negotiations, he outmanoeuvred his rivals by offering a higher price.
A truckload of logs descending a steep grade is not an easy thing to manoeuvre or stop - I know, because I've tried it.
The quest for total knowledge, along with his own revolutionary credentials, enabled him to outmanoeuvre colleagues who wanted to preserve their own fiefdoms within the leadership.
Another restrictive manoeuvre gets under way. Times, Sunday Times
By 1987 it was clear that the grieving period was over as politicians manoeuvred for supremacy.
Even if we do draw the line somewhere and ban certain eugenic manoeuvres, the financial incentive may play a prominent role.
He left the garden in the same manner, but backwards, being obliged, in order to keep the dog respectful, to have recourse to that manoeuvre with his stick which masters in that sort of fencing designate as la rose couverte. Les Miserables
The company would not allow room for manoeuvre on anything.
After roll call, she dives straight in with the day's tactical manoeuvres.
Hence the verbs to cathect, decathect, and hypercathect, the last referring to the defensive manoeuvre (see DEFENCE) of investing in one process in order to facilitate REPRESSION of another. Word of the Day
Whilst few doubt his earnestness, many doubt both his room for manoeuvre and his physical ability.
Oil and Islam continue to define Saudi Arabia 's room for manoeuvre.
I manoeuvred the heavy horsebox carefully through the small village and set off northeastwards on the road over the Downs, retracing the way I had come from London. Forfeit
Occasionally, executing a standard manoeuvre such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would need to reinstall the engine.
Far too often biographers are obsessed with sex, courtly intrigue, or military manoeuvres.
The authorities have to manoeuvre the markets into demanding a cut in interest rates.
Backing her horse away from the threat so that she had room to manoeuvre, she unslung her shield and drew her sword.
The terrier fell down the cabin companionway and lamed its nigh hind leg, then repeated the manoeuvre and lamed its off fore leg. Chapter 17
The pilot has to carry out a series of complex manoeuvres.
There are broad boulevard pistes, delightful glade runs and routes through trees where room for manoeuvre becomes progressively tighter.
But these manoeuvres were quickly superseded by the threat of civil war. ELIZABETH AND MARY: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
The Boers, however, took every precaution against such an eventuality; and the result was generally, as stated by the German critics, that the Boers were "manoeuvred" out of their positions. Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902
Smaller cars are easier to manoeuvre and avoid trouble. Times, Sunday Times
Such manoeuvres, however, are perhaps the inevitable consequence of scientists who are backed into a corner.
With the default set up, your vehicle will align itself to manoeuvre to wherever you aim the targeting reticle with the mouse, while the keyboard controls forward and reverse propulsion.
Mitchell felt their ultimatum left Fifa with little room for manoeuvre.
But much to the Americans' surprise, the Eurofighter shook them off, outmanoeuvred them and moved into shooting positions on their tails.
In response, she sought to manoeuvre his own people ahead of his supporters in the lists.
Along the way he's manoeuvred a group of marginal seat holders into more powerful positions.
Anyone who examines the route taken by Hanjour will see that it required a complex manoeuvre by an experienced pilot.
This created a little room for manoeuvre and sometimes even allowed limited state welfare measures to be introduced.
It outguessed my every manoeuvre on the sandy bottom, and I ended the dive knackered, without one image of its huge iridescent blue pectoral fins splayed like a splendid fan to show for my efforts.
The past is not so easily outmanoeuvred. Times, Sunday Times
She learned to control these manoeuvres with great expertise.
Triumph engineers believed that women were unable to park or manoeuvre in tight spaces and so the car had to be able to turn on a sixpence.
Everybody is going away to think about what the best way is to manoeuvre the cross into position.
We may not gainsay the outcome but we can say that if the Commission rules against Deputy Collins the party leadership will have little room for manoeuvre.
At that period the Spanish war-vessels were built with "flush" decks, that is, their decks were level fore and aft, and without bulwarks, and were of much greater length than the English vessels, which were short, and therefore more easy to manoeuvre than the Spaniards. Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess
She had been out-manoeuvred and out-run, to say nothing of her having been unceremoniously tumbled in the gravel, and her arrival was like that of a tornado — made up of offended dignity, justifiable wrath, and instinctive hatred for this marauder from the Wild. The Southland
The networks have focused on details of tactics, weapons and military manoeuvres.
Potentially, this imposes a degree of constraint on the party leadership's room for manoeuvre.
Had the Bulgarian fans found it in their hearts to appreciate England's work they might have been impressed in particular by the interchanging of Walcott, Young and Stewart Downing as they manoeuvred in support of Rooney. Bulgaria 0-3 England | Euro 2012 qualifier match report
With great difficulty, the fisherman manoeuvred his small craft close to the reef.
The pigeons, probably well used to such manoeuvres, took off timely, to the chagrin of their destructors.
They were outmanoeuvred for 70 minutes by a decent Dunfermline side, but a late burst of urgency brought them a consolation goal and made the last few minutes tense for the winners.
Warships at this time were propelled by a number of oarsmen which rowed the boat if it came becalmed or it was necessary to manoeuvre it in battle.
Accordingly, it is planning its own free paper as a blocking manoeuvre.
Indeed, the planning manoeuvres he performed are as impressive as the finished product. Times, Sunday Times
Small farmers have limited room for manoeuvre.
Probably the best way to do this is to put them on joint military manoeuvres with the Americans. The Sun
The tiny cars were essential to the film's plot and proved to be the perfect getaway vehicles to manoeuvre in and out of tight spots and weave through seemingly impenetrable pathways.
You argue that he had dished the opposition, outmanoeuvred them, tactically closed them down and as a result, couldn't help allowing himself a mordant little smile.
He skilfully manoeuvred the motor boat past the rocks.
This one had manoeuvred itself into an exposed position and was climbing in a laboured manner up a twisted, dry vine that was coming away from the tree.
In the past, defensive manoeuvres often went unpunished.
Anand was at his positional best in getting the better of Svidler, who fell prey to finely disguised manoeuvres.
Smaller cars are easier to manoeuvre and avoid trouble. Times, Sunday Times
It would seem a shame to turn down such a cunning manoeuvre without a compelling need.
Wingfield is a spacious property that offers plenty of room for manoeuvre, together with the obvious benefits of being in walk-in condition.
The army is on manoeuvres in the desert.
It has a very wide flight envelope, which allows a huge amount of manoeuvres. Times, Sunday Times
And after she had been here she wrote to her father in Cracow, where he is at manoeuvres, saying that if he would like to grant her her chief wish, then, when he came back to Vienna, he was to take me with him to K-- M--; this was really the _greatest wish_ she had ever had in her life! A Young Girl's Diary
A party which is willing to sacrifice any or all of its policy preferences will have more room to manoeuvre than a competitor who gets stuck on a principle.
What can we expect from the conservatives in this configuration of great potential power combined with extremely narrow room to manoeuvre?
Strachan, on the other hand, was regarded as tricksy enough to outmanoeuvre his dour Aberdeen and Manchester United manager.
If we wanted to be sure of succeeding with the big ventures, we would have to act rapidly and ensure early on that we had given ourselves enough room for manoeuvre.
He seems to have manoeuvred himself into a very advantageous position. Times, Sunday Times
The economic conditions are restricting the Chancellor's freedom of manoeuvre.
With nothing going on but election manoeuvres, the end result is stasis, which is perhaps, as the young woman's placard suggests, what everyone wants.
Republicans said today that AIG has 'outmanoeuvred' the Obama government and now has taxpayers 'over a barrel'. Home | Mail Online
With a split second to make the choice, you decide to complete the manoeuvre. Times, Sunday Times

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