Sentence examples for scope for manoeuvre from inspiring English sources

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The prime minister's scope for manoeuvre is limited, though.

Clegg ruled out the need to raise income tax, national insurance, VAT or inheritance tax to reach £8bn tax rises, restricting his scope for manoeuvre.

Yet analysts, and many at the banks themselves, have warned that the scope for manoeuvre is strictly limited and any new steps could prove counter-productive.

The exit of Galbraith would appear to further reduce Obama's scope for manoeuvre in Afghanistan at a time when he is facing calls from his military commander, General Stanley McChrystal, for up to 40,000 more soldiers.

The foundation said Mr Osborne's scope for manoeuvre is severely limited by commitments to boost spending on the National Health Service, schools, defence, the security services and international aid.

As the box on the last page of this section points out, Georgian politicians now think the same.The double-act between Mr Medvedev and Mr Putin creates extra scope for manoeuvre.

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Left to clear up the chaos created by his predecessor Roberto De Fanti's disastrous signing spree, Congerton had little scope for financial manoeuvre.

If quality was a little lacking at times – combined with a playing surface poor enough to shame some parks teams, Clarke's decision to field an extra man in midfield stifled Bradford's customary scope for creative manoeuvre – the spirit in which the game was played could hardly have been bettered anywhere.

But there is little scope for such manoeuvring over, say, the heavy marketing spending that will be required to establish and maintain the Tiscali brand across Europe.

Although Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to India turned out to be a bit of damp squib, Mr Modi's government, according to Mr Pant, is "trying to increase its scope for diplomatic manoeuvring vis-à-vis China by building substantive ties with Japan, Vietnam and US".

Their financial dependence on a mean old Chancellor severely limits their room for manoeuvre - not to mention their scope for giving policy expression to ideological convictions - but they do have serious transport muscle, cash for delivering significant housing and other development schemes and hefty "call in" powers over large planning decisions.

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