Sentence examples for maneuver rather than from inspiring English sources

Army Group South should have fought a war of maneuver rather than concentrating on Stalingrad.

Some want to set up rudimentary exchanges with limited features — as a defensive tactical maneuver — rather than cede control to Washington.

But Mr. Koizumi made no further reference to it, and local analysts appeared unmoved, seeing his words as a deft political maneuver rather than a change in policy.

But, how they grew from $75 million a year, to over $1 billion over many years, was part of what one source described to me as "a city hall jam job" eg. a political maneuver rather than a reasonable estimate.

Biles was the top qualifier in the vault by a solid margin, but**,** because the vault requires just a single maneuver, rather than the series demanded by every other apparatus, there's more of a chance that a competitor manages to play spoiler.

Sauter was less generous to the fiscal stimulus program, describing it as simply a political maneuver, rather than sound policy.

It smacks of maneuvering rather than the stoic courage of an abandoned tribe.

He took office in December 2008 via a tenuous coalition of antagonistic parties created through parliamentary maneuvering rather than through a popular vote.

The Oxford Companion to Chess described Mr. Smyslov's style of play as positional — that is, intended primarily to gain an advantage by subtle maneuvering rather than by overt threats or gain of material.

It has been painfully evident that our own unions have struggled to find that moral footing across the last decade of market-based reforms as union leadership has settled for political maneuvering rather than unwavering principle.

Instead, pointing to the recent crisis in the Ukraine, Obama said he preferred a less "sexy" approach: a calibrated, low-profile set of diplomatic maneuvers, rather than the blunt force of military action, and all of the risk that it entails.