Sentence examples for early maneuvers from inspiring English sources

There were some early maneuvers connected with the Ashcroft fight evident in the capital as Congress returned.

Sandusky had been caught in the subtle, early maneuvers of victim selection, and what Schreffler witnessed was Sandusky aborting his pursuit of the boy, not pressing forward.

Some $176 million in federal support has survived several early maneuvers in the House, and the full House plans to debate the issue July 18 as part of the proposed Health and Human Services budget.

You have "the subtle early maneuvers of victim selection," the screening out of children who object or who are supervised closely by parents, the testing, ingratiating, "grooming" and "desensitizing the target with an ever-expanding touch," the escalation of abuse.

And not risking everything on an early maneuver in the opening race of the America's Cup finals was definitely the conservative, reasoned thing to do.

And with the party leaderless after losing control of both the White House and Congress in the past two election cycles, the split is colored by early maneuvering for conservatives' support among potential aspirants for the party's 2012 presidential nomination.

With so many potential candidates — but no clear front-runner — the early maneuvering has had the effect of "just freezing" many donors, who are meeting with candidates but not making an early commitment, said Dan Senor, who advised GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney in 2012.

In the early maneuvering for the 2012 race, Mr. Romney has aimed his fire at Mr. Obama rather than any of his prospective Republican rivals, attacking the president as a weak leader who pursued a European-style big-government agenda for his first two years in office instead of focusing on jobs.

In the book, Dr. Venter says that detractors badmouthed his work, pressured other scientists not to cooperate with him and tried strenuously to block publication of his report, of which they had earlier maneuvered to be made co-authors.

transferences — what she called the simple "irruptions of the id" — and the more subtle transferences that are the early defensive maneuvers of the ego against the instincts.

In a telephone interview, Olga Mikhailova, Mr. Navalny's lead lawyer, called the adjournment requests more than just typical early legal maneuvers in a trial.