The sheer length, lack of focus, and scope for manoeuvre in the Chilcot panel's questions were revealed in all their vagueness at the Iraq inquiry today, as a nervous and tense Tony Blair nevertheless managed to remain more or less within his comfort zone.
Mr Meciar has been a past-master at using semi-legal constitutional chicanery and worse to wriggle out of seemingly unwinnable positions.The figures give him little scope for manoeuvre.
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 prime minister's scope for manoeuvre is limited, though.
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.
Berlin also argues it has scant scope for manoeuvre legally as the German constitutional court would be likely to rule, under the terms of the Maastricht Treaty setting up the single currency, that Germany cannot come to the bilateral aid of a single currency country in trouble.
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.
