Some tasks are just plain dance maneuvers, such as a pirouette à la seconde (the multiple pumping turn).
When I visited, last year, the procession of men in jumpsuits filing through the courtrooms had the heavy, resigned air of prison maneuvers, such as count or lockdown.
Tight maneuvers such as the rudder reversal were most effective when attempted with such agile fighters as the British Spitfire and the Japanese "Zero".
He and the other operators had been tested on a racetrack to see if they could handle emergency maneuvers, such as making a sharp turn at sixty miles an hour.
A robust Long Island economy has helped produce spacious enough parking spots in the lots of these restaurants to enable essential family maneuvers, such as changing a baby in the backseat of a car.
Each horse had to perform a series of maneuvers, such as piaffe (a "diagonalized, elevated, rounded, suspended and majestic trot"), passage (often described as resembling a "horse trotting underwater"), and pirouette (which is what it sounds like).
Colonel Steele sometimes told his officers, "We will never cross the line, but we might get chalk all over our feet," and maneuvers such as Operation Judgment Day seemed to exemplify the sentiment.
This permitted the introduction of elementary tactical maneuvers such as massing one's forces at a selected point, outflanking the enemy, and the oblique approach (in which one wing stormed the enemy while the other was held back).
On the other hand, in violent maneuvers (such as during a storm), whole bags of sand or great blasts of heat from a balloon's burner may be required for a proper correction.
If only because medieval discipline was often lax and organization usually elementary, sophisticated tactical maneuvers such as those which characterized the armies of Alexander, his Hellenistic successors, and the Romans at their best were few and far between.
The preceding story (p. 102) talks about some exotic maneuvers, such as gain-on-sale accounting.
