Sentence examples for manoeuvrings from a from inspiring English sources

Watch out for unexpected tactical manoeuvrings from a splinter group led by Christopher Hohn, feisty hedge fund manager from The Children's Investment Fund, who is suing Coal India, a government-run company, for mispricing coal and the failure to stop rampant theft, among other issues.

In six months' time Correa will run for re-election and, with his support on the cusp of a majority, some see his manoeuvrings as a strategy to distract voters from domestic issues and cement his lead over opponents.

These manoeuvrings suggest a further mutation in the life of the Russian intelligentsia.

This week they make minor diplomatic manoeuvrings and a break for the Lithuanian border.

Kill Me Three Times by filmmaker Kriv Stenders follows the manoeuvrings of a bunch of amoral characters in an otherwise heavenly coastal hamlet in Western Australia.

Rajoy's reputation for sitting back and letting others make the political weather belied the manoeuvrings of a skilled tactician, he said.

At first glance these might seem like the actions of a man with something to hide; the hypocritical manoeuvrings of a man who made his fortune on social media and now wants to be as antisocial as possible.

Small wonder, then, that Gordon Brown's abortive pre-election manoeuvrings included a visit to the troops in Iraq, and the promise that 1,000 of them would be home by Christmas.

True, Ballance's broken finger which put him out for a month left them with no room for experimentation in the triangular series but these belated manoeuvrings, selecting a team that had never played together before at the start of a World Cup, bespoke a squad ill at ease with itself and where it is heading.

Struggling to exercise choice within the state sector was now seen as unfair middle-class snaffling of a limited resource at the expense of the poor.Last year the rhetoric hardened significantly when the official who oversees school admissions described some parental manoeuvrings as a "form of theft".

So it was almost fun – as much as manoeuvrings in a bank boardroom can ever be – to hear of HSBC's finest fighting like ferrets in a sack over who should be chairman: chief executive Mike Geoghegan, finance director Douglas Flint or non-executive director John Thornton.