manœuvre

Example Sentences

• "She delighted in schemes and in projects; she governed her husband by a series of manœuvres, whose only fault was their being entirely wasted; as a simple wish, openly expressed, would have answered every purpose."
• "[…] but then it came of itself: it was not elicited by meretricious arts and calculated manœuvres; and one had but to accept it — to answer what he asked […]"
• "Gregson and Lestrade had watched the manœuvres of their amateur companion with considerable curiosity and some contempt."
• "Peter, forging ahead with the bag, stopped to see the result of these manœuvres."
• "[…] we may certainly prepare ourselves for every kind of novel stratagem and every kind of brutal and treacherous manœuvre."
• "All early accounts agree that one of Stalin’s characteristics was ‘laziness’ or ‘indolence’ - which Bukharin impressed on Trotsky as Stalin’s ‘most striking quality’. Trotsky remarked that Stalin ‘never did any serious work’ but was always ‘busy with his intrigues’. Another way of putting this is that Stalin paid the necessary attention to the detail of political manœuvre."