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August 25, 2008

Room to Manoeuvre

manoeuvre (verb, noun) - skillfully change or move things out of a bad situation into a good situation

room to manoeuvre (noun phrase) - the situation allows you to change or move things (allows you to act and physically move)

no room to manoeuvre
little room to manoeuvre
leaves room to manoeuvre
leaves some room to manoeuvre
leaves us room to manoeuvre
budget leaves room to manoeuvre
room to manoeuvre and avoid them

with very little room to manoeuvre
allowed room to manoeuvre

the new circumstances have allowed much more room to manoeuvre than in the past

your personality leaves you with plenty of room to manoeuvre when it comes to ways of behaving

needed room to manoeuvre in negotiations to resolve the crisis
the constraints left the government with very little room to manoeuvre
maintain proper safety margins, good reaction time, and room to manoeuvre

gotta give yourself that time to react and room to manoeuvre
in a few years time may have very little room to manoeuvre
must be room to manoeuvre the machine properly


Example sentences:

* This plan leaves us some room to manoeuvre.

* It didn't leave her with much room to manoeuvre.

* He had some room to manoeuvre.

* He stretched out his arms but had no room to manoeuvre.

* One of the problems is that the rider, perched up there, is sitting almost directly over the centre of gravity of the thing, and there is little room to manoeuvre.

* The company claims there may be room to manoeuvre in the layoffs and they have spelled out the bottom line and that is 229 jobs in Birkenhead and 66 in Litherland.

* There's no room to manoeuvre.

* The wider the cut, the quicker the lawn will be mown, but there must be room to manoeuvre the machine properly.

* You've gotta give yourself that time to react and room to manoeuvre.

* In a few years time the fundholders may have very little room to manoeuvre but will still have to cope with the burden of administering their fund.

* The President needed room to manoeuvre in negotiations to resolve the crisis.

* Although the future remains unclear, the new circumstances have allowed much more room to manoeuvre than in the past.

* So your personality sets very broad limits, but whatever its nature it leaves you with plenty of room to manoeuvre when it comes to ways of behaving.

* Warships could approach only by that channel with very little room to manoeuvre.

* In that narrow passage of navigable water, the clutter of ships had no room to manoeuvre.

* Wait until the driver or the passenger has got out of the car and, as they approach you, quickly reverse back down the road so that you are out of their reach and have room to manoeuvre.

* SOUTH KOREAN DOMESTIC ELECTRONIC COMMS COMPANIES ALLOWED ROOM TO MANOEUVRE

* These related constraints at the international and national levels left the government with very little room to manoeuvre, and selling corporate peace under the given conditions stretched the Labour leaders' powers of statesmanship to the utmost.

* And so we will try and reestablish and reaffirm the main basic principles to make sure that you maintain proper safety margins and er good reaction time, room to manoeuvre, as we're going through.?


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