Given that Clegg had spent two years ineffectually manoeuvring to ditch his own policy in favour of something more realistic, the puzzle is why he let himself be cornered into endorsing the anti-fees pledge in the election, complete with "read my lips" photos.
He played a leading role in the ill-fated constitutional convention and patrolled Dublin and London, lobbying and manoeuvring and nudging the British and Irish governments towards a new cooperative approach.
The FDA may be manoeuvring to protect its back.
State-owned Telekom Malaysia is also manoeuvring to salvage TRI, the country's second-largest mobile-phone operator, from Mr Tajudin's empire.But Malaysia's government still tolerates murky dealings when it suits: last year, for instance, it sold a stake in the post office without any sort of public tender.
Each would be manoeuvring to blame the other for unpopular measures.
"SIGNAL left but turn right," was how one Egyptian president, Anwar Sadat, famously described manoeuvring from the Soviet into the American camp in the 1970s.
But thereafter it should save the treasury around 0.7% of GDP a year, and it goes some way towards eroding Italy's huge debt (of 106% of GDP).Yet just to get this measure approved, Mr Berlusconi had to resort to manoeuvring that would have bewildered a Byzantine courtier, and a confidence vote that might have felled his government.
Mr Ignatieff, in particular, had a slick machine, which doled out sandwiches and bottled water bearing the Iggy logo and had managers in headsets manoeuvring hordes of supporters into place for supposedly spontaneous demonstrations.In contrast, Mr Dion's campaign looked homespun, consisting mainly of green T-shirts and placards.
Aventis's capitulation owed much to interference from Mr Sarkozy, who was desperate to keep the company French.And there is a long history of official meddling, manoeuvring and subsidy in French industry.
THE recent archives of this newspaper are full of examples of corrupt politicians manoeuvring to stay in office in Italy, India and even sleepy Slovenia.
Her deal involved much manoeuvring by the DOJ, aimed at applying leverage to Mr Fastow.
