Sentence examples for maneuvering in which from inspiring English sources
Mr. Gore's announcement capped a day of courtroom maneuvering in which he appeared to improve his legal standing.
It also followed behind-the-scenes diplomatic maneuvering in which Turkey took the lead in an unsuccessful effort to persuade Mr. Assad to halt the violence.
The Politburo knew there would be a war-after-the-war, a bitter period of political maneuvering in which the United States launched covert military operations and a trade embargo against Vietnam.
News of progress toward a deal followed a day of diplomatic maneuvering in which Israel's prime minister, Ariel Sharon, arrived in Washington to meet with President Bush and Egypt's foreign minister visited Yasir Arafat in a show of solidarity at his headquarters in Ramallah.
It came about this way: On April 19, a day of diplomatic maneuvering in which the United States tried to avoid casting a veto against a strongly worded Arab resolution, Israel's foreign minister, Shimon Peres, who was in Washington, called Mr. Annan to say that the secretary general should personally appoint a fact-finding mission, adding Israel "had nothing to hide".
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.
The maneuver, in which the bullfighter falls to his knees as the bull approaches, is what Jairo was doing when he was gored.
The geography of Stahl's Paris wanderings is not intricate, nor are the stealth maneuvers in which he begins to engage.
Strauss, a former music journalist for the New York Times, is most famous for popularizing "the neg," a pickup maneuver in which a man at once compliments and insults a woman, supposedly putting the man in control.
Ronan Bennett's ZUGZWANG (Bloomsbury, $24.95) takes its title from a chess term for those endgame maneuvers in which a player must execute moves that can only lead to defeat.
(Machiavelli especially admired a maneuver in which Borgia had asked the Duke of Urbino to lend him his artillery to help take a nearby town, then turned on the undefended duchy and took it instead).
