Sentence examples for on a maneuver from inspiring English sources

The government was desperate to determine whether Iraqi troops were merely on a maneuver or were poised for invasion.

At Momentum, skiers start on trampolines and then work repeatedly on a maneuver on the water ramp before taking it to snow.

On a maneuver, you're given this instruction: "We're gonna take the hill, return with your plans at dawn".

Also, the mower is doing all the work here -- the rolling forward, the backing up, the turn-on-a-dime maneuvering around the London plane tree.

Danish special forces disrupted a takeover of a cargo ship by pirates in the Gulf of Aden on Friday, in a maneuver rarely undertaken by NATO warships.

Indirect taxes, in the form of the Townshend Acts (1767), were imposed without calculation of their probable yield and then repealed (except for that on tea) as a maneuver in home politics.

He hears youth coaches exhorting tacklers to "lay a hat on him," a maneuver so neck-crushingly dangerous it could well be called Rushing Roulette.

Left turns onto Canal are illegal, though many motorists ignore the signs, but it is legal to turn right onto Canal or to cross it and continue north on Greene, a maneuver that requires a slight jog to the right.

The Israeli official said the Israelis believed that the American announcement at 11 p.m. on Wednesday was a maneuver meant to provoke some 11th-hour decision-making.

They grew tired of the fountain shortly and began hoisting themselves onto a railing a few feet above the ground and walking along it on all fours: a maneuver called a cat balance or a cat walk.

At the same time, Ms. Quinn and her team were unsettled by a plan, hatched by council members, to circumvent her by forcing a floor vote on the bill, a maneuver never tried during her tenure.