Sentence examples for devious maneuver from inspiring English sources
Washington and the European Union are right to keep their sanctions in place until it becomes clearer whether this agreement can produce real change or is just another devious maneuver.
After some devious maneuvers, Toussaint forced Sonthonax out in 1797.
Indonesian politics became increasingly frenzied, with Sukarno himself engaged in devious maneuvers that made stabilization impossible.
The childish fighting among Republican candidates, and devious maneuvering among elitist Democrats to elect their chosen queen, left a bad taste in our mouths.
This very well could signal the beginning of a post-partisan system of governance that if even for only one day sets aside petty bickering and devious maneuvering in which one side attempts to upstage the other.
Foiling at least some of this devious rival's maneuvers, Belzoni eventually succeeded in amassing a significant haul, but he fell out with his employer and, despite a flurry of fame on his return to Europe to mount an exhibition of Egyptian wonders, he was soon wrangling with everyone from the British Museum to his long-suffering wife.
The interesting thing about how our devious local NIMBYs are using this legal maneuver is that, in most cases where Chicago precincts have been voted dry, it is to get rid of some liquor retail establishment that locals find offensive.
The whole world blames the United States for plunging the world economy into crisis but executives here are able to maneuver around findings of pervasive fraud in real estate, sleazy practices of securitization and devious insurance policies by "settling" complaints written off as a cost of doing business and passed on to shareholders.
"The difficulty of tactical maneuvering," one of his characters reflects, quoting Sun Tzu yet again, "consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain".
