"outflank" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when referring to a strategy to get around an opponent or obstacle. For example: "The commander devised an outflanking maneuver to overcome the enemy's defensive line."
He is in favour of living wages, all this stuff, because he's trying to outflank the SNP on the left, while the SNP is trying to outflank him on the left.
Condemning the party's policy as absolutely beyond understanding, Mr Hattersey said: 'I don't want to outflank the Tories, I don't want to take over the ground.
In an attempt to outflank Nigel Farage, Cameron declared that English Votes for English Laws (EVEL), the process in which Scottish MPs would be banned from voting on matters unrelated to Scotland needed to be addressed "in tandem with, and at the same pace as, the settlement for Scotland".
The Guardian can also disclose that: Cameron and George Osborne, then shadow chancellor, discussed plans as far back as 2009 to try to outflank the SNP – and lay the ground for a possible revival of Tory fortunes in Scotland – by staging a Westminster-led independence referendum after the 2010 UK general election.
It involves suspicions that bribes were paid to clear the way for construction of dozens of new stores and warehouses, thus helping Walmart to outflank competitors.
He wants his party to outflank Labour by offering union members free membership and benefits such as cheaper insurance and legal support (rather like those offered by the unions themselves).
In an effort to outflank the founding Busch family (which owns only 4% of the company's shares) it used family disagreement.
And so each man attempts to outflank the other on the left.
His secretary of state, John Kerry, may be able to induce Israelis and Palestinians to make peace, but could he ever make them laugh?Forming coalition governments can help to outflank satirists too.
I want to initiate that change myself," he adds.It will be interesting to see whether he can outflank Korea's first female presidential candidate on women's issues.
Mr Lukashenka had agitated for the charter, not to reinforce the CIS, but to outflank it.
