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The phrase "margin of manoeuvre" is correct and commonly used in written English
It means the amount of flexibility or room for action that someone or something has in a particular situation. Example: Despite facing unexpected challenges, the CEO still had a small margin of manoeuvre in the company's budget to implement new strategies.
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Its stand marks a break from the past, when the Islamists have traded loyalty to the Hashemites for a wider margin of manoeuvre.
But leaders of the European Union have already said negotiators had "exhausted the margin of manoeuvre" in the talks and the draft deal was "the best we can do".
"Assuming he wants to negotiate, which he does not, Assad today has politically a smaller margin of manoeuvre than earlier because he owes his survival to an array of militias whose interests are not fully aligned with his," he added.
According to predictions, climate warming over the next few decades will increase fire occurrence close to the maximum values recorded during the Holocene, thus substantially reducing the margin of manoeuvre of the forest industry.
Hence, forest fires will likely be more frequent and cover larger areas by the end of the 21st century (Goldammer 2013), meaning that the margin of manoeuvre for forestry operations will decrease.
He warned there would be some red lines, such as free movement of people but there was a "margin of manoeuvre" over this and exempting the UK from "ever closer union".
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Then again, she probably does not want to risk the turmoil of ejecting Greece from the euro if she can possibly avoid it.So any margins of manoeuvre are tight.
"Hollande has little margin of maneuver".
"The comfortable state of public finances provides margin for manoeuvre," says the veteran finance minister, Pedro Solbes.
The development of social security contributions points to the need to act within a margin for manoeuvre which will preserve the financial stability of social protection systems.
He names fiscal reform as one of his top two legislative priorities because it will allow him a greater margin for manoeuvre.
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