The word "manoeuvres" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a carefully planned process or series of actions. For example, "The secret agent executed her clever manoeuvres flawlessly".
Rising at around 8am, we practised manoeuvres or sailed all day, mooring at 6 or 7pm, leaving plenty of time for eating the homemade meals provided and indulging in our sizeable pre-cruise booze run while listening to Kevin's picaresque life story.
Cruisewatch and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) augmented the Greenham women's vigilance and tracked the missiles as they were taken on manoeuvres around English country lanes.
It's an obvious enough point, but it cannot be restated enough: "No one with any knowledge of the murky manoeuvres that carved what is now Iraq out of the defeated Ottoman Empire after the first world war," he writes, "could possibly have thought it a good idea to try, by force of arms, to turn that artificial, riven state into a beacon of democracy for the Middle East".
The construction union and the federal opposition levelled the criticism, as they argued the legal manoeuvres signalled a tough new approach that could be taken against any worker engaging in unprotected industrial action.
But throughout Wednesday last-ditch legal manoeuvres by Davis's defence team failed one by one as both state and federal judges ruled against them.
Rudderless and haemorrhaging relevance, it began a series of doomed manoeuvres.
They also say that the clandestine manoeuvres to spy on students, environmentalists, anti-fascists and other campaigners erode free speech and the freedom to protest.
Of all his stange manoeuvres at Express Newspapers, the most bizarre occurred in 1995 when he agreed a merger with the financial services company, MAI, run by the Labour peer Lord (Clive) Hollick.
In December 1981, Warsaw Pact forces were engaged in manoeuvres near Poland's border.
Related: North Korea submarine missile launch photos may be fake, say experts For 25 years, the pariah state has been intent on developing a formidable arsenal, and the recent "missile launches" are just manoeuvres in a well worn routine the country has developed to get what it wants.
All of this belied the notion that Cruise made Britain safe – if women could penetrate the camp and peaceniks could find, blockade and generally discombobulate the military manoeuvres, then surely the Russians would have no problem finding them.
