With Merkel's hands tied in the runup to German elections, Hollande will gain space for manoeuvre.
On the other is the increasing impression that both Netanyahu and Abbas have boxed themselves into respective corners, worn out their strategies, and been left with increasingly little space for manoeuvre.
Second, ensuring the dignity of work presupposed occasional tactical interventions by the state into particular industries and sectors; however, those of them that were privatised, liberalised, or never properly regulated – the technology sector, in its most expansive definition, is a combination of all three – left governments little space for manoeuvre.
The shrinking space for manoeuvre left to farmers for seed saving, using and exchanging within the strong IP paradigm, and a seemingly generalised lack of awareness or training in legal issues on the cultivators' side, have led to mounting disagreements between variety developers and sowers, leading to numerous court cases.
The typical NHS contract is not a freely-entered agreement, subject to possible non-renewal, and it co-exists with other bureaucratic commitments (such as annual operating frameworks) that limit the parties' space for manoeuvre.
Agency can be actualised through either strategies or tactics, depending on the space available for manoeuvre and the agents' personal capacity for exploiting opportunities within this space.
Therefore, incidents surrounding these islands strike directly at historical wounds, stirring national pride and constricting the already narrow space for diplomatic manoeuvre.
For the poorest countries with limited space for fiscal manoeuvre, a write-down of their multilateral debts is needed along with the introduction of an international debt workout mechanism.
First, even leftist governments have limited space for fiscal manoeuvres, as the kind of discretionary spending required to modernise the welfare state would never be approved by the global financial markets.
Analysts say there is little space to manoeuvre for an opposition that is facing Mr Chavez's powerful legacy, especially at an emotional time so soon after his death.
