(n.) Management; dexterous movement; specif., a military or naval evolution, movement, or change of position.
(n.) Management with address or artful design; adroit proceeding; stratagem.
(n.) To perform a movement or movements in military or naval tactics; to make changes in position with reference to getting advantage in attack or defense.
(n.) To manage with address or art; to scheme.
(v. t.) To change the positions of, as of troops of ships.
(n. & v.) See Maneuver.
Example Sentences:
(1) Subjects completed questionnaires and performed lung function tests, including forced expiratory (FVC) manoeuvres.
(2) George Osborne’s eighth budget is unlikely to be a radical affair , as the state of the public finances and the upcoming EU referendum limit the chancellor’s room for manoeuvre.
(3) The answer comes down to Chalabi's considerable skill in elite manoeuvring.
(4) It's almost starting to feel like we're back in the good old days of July 2005, when Paris lost out to London in the battle to stage the 2012 Olympic Games, a defeat immediately interpreted by France as a bitter blow to Gallic ideals of fair play and non-commercialism and yet another undeserved triumph for the underhand, free-market manoeuvrings of perfidious Albion.
(5) The success rate for primary endoscopic management was 90.3%; 12 patients required ureterolithotomy for failed endoscopic manoeuvres and complications occurred in 5.5%.
(6) When maximal isometric trunk flexor or extensor torques were imposed upon a maximal Valsalva manoeuvre, transversus abdominis activity and intra-abdominal pressure remained comparable within and across conditions, whereas obliquus internus, obliquus externus and rectus abdominis activities either markedly increased (flexion) or decreased (extension).
(7) The chart is based on the pathophysiological changes that occur in perinatal asphyxia, directing the user to the appropriate manoeuvres required to correct those changes, depending on the degree of asphyxia which is determined by clinical signs and by use of the Apgar score.
(8) The study protocol included the measurement of QT during a Holter recording, an exercise test, Valsalva's manoeuvre and the isoprenalin test.
(9) The prosecution contended that while that manoeuvre was lawful, his repeated use of a baton against her legs showed the officer had lost his self-control.
(11) Naloxone had no detectable effect on supine blood pressure, heart rate, plasma norepinephrine, or epinephrine concentrations or muscle sympathetic nerve burst frequency at rest or during the strain phase of the Valsalva manoeuvre, but decreased slightly sympathetic burst incidence at rest (p less than 0.05).
(12) That will severely limit Obama's room for manoeuvre at the summit and is the first time the White House has made such an admission.
(13) Many of the current political manoeuvres are only possible because of the lack of transparency on these questions.
(14) Oscillatory resistance Rrs and reactance Xrs curves were measured in the frequency range 4-25 Hz at FRC-level and at the course of vital capacity manoeuvres.
(15) After this manoeuvre, both the introducer and the small knot could be withdrawn from the jugular vein without further incident.
(16) In view of the effect on the blood pressure and heart rate, subjects should avoid performing a Valsalva manoeuvre during sustained handgrip testing.
(17) The results provide no evidence for fusimotor sensitization of spindles in muscles remaining relaxed during the Jendrassik manoeuvre, and reflex reinforcement occurring without concomitant signs of active tension rise in the muscles tested is presumed to depend upon altered processing of the afferent volleys within the cord.
(18) The Department for Transport (DfT) confirmed that the incident took place but said it did not believe the missile was an attempt to target the British plane, instead ascribing the missile seen by the Thomson pilots to Egyptian military manoeuvres.
(19) The diplomatic manoeuvrings came amid continuing confusion among Leave campaigners.
(20) We analyzed the amount and direction of tibial rotation that occurred at the knee joint with a triaxial electrogoniometer on 11 male subjects who performed the sidestep cutting manoeuvre.
Stratagem
Definition:
(n.) An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination.
Example Sentences:
(1) In nearly every case husband and wife agreed on the choice of stratagem, a majority of the couples forming the sample opting for disassociation.
(2) This article contains a potpurri of surgically related stratagems, alternative techniques, and philosophies.
(3) The ready selection of rCD4-resistant variants has obvious relevance for rCD4-based therapeutic stratagems.
(4) Skills we develop in the clinical setting can be combined with practice audit to produce the ideal management stratagem.
(5) He suggests that this is the dynamic that drives unthinking partisan allegiance ("What's most distinctive about the current presidential election and our political culture [is] … how unconditionally so many partisans back their side's every edict, plaint and stratagem"), as well as numerous key political frauds, from Saddam's WMDs to Obama's fake birth certificate to Romney's failure to pay taxes for 10 years.
(6) Abraham also posited an alternative stratagem for government to cash in on Channel 4, which is allowing it the financial freedom to invest and grow the wider UK creative economy.
(7) The hypothesis of asymmetric otolith function asserts that physiological or anatomical differences in the two sides of the bilateral gravity-sensing otolith apparatus of the inner ear may be well compensated on Earth, but when exposed to novel gravitational states, the prior compensatory stratagems may be ineffective, leading to unstable vestibular responses and causing the phenomenon of space motion sickness.
(8) The model stipulates that given exposure to sustained aversive maternal control and a maternal communication style which is subtle and devious, the child comes to adapt with approach, stratagem-based behaviours and heightened vigilance for evaluative information (i.e.
(9) The use of a differential probing stratagem, based on the hybridisation of specific oligonucleotides to either pUC13 polylinker or unaltered PYK 3' UTR sequences, allowed for discrimination between mutant (plasmid borne) and wild-type (chromosomal) PYK transcripts.
(10) Recent pharmacological studies utilizing human intracranial artery preparations have addressed two distinct therapeutic stratagems.
(11) His inspired stratagem is to embrace the national rugby team, the darlings of the formerly ruling Afrikaners and, for most nonwhite South Africans, a symbol of brutal and humiliating repression.
(12) The implications of this observation pertain to toxicity effects when EDTA is incorporated into ocular drug products for stability purposes, or novel stratagems for improving ocular bioavailability of topically applied drugs are employed.
(13) Though the cabinet had rejected such a stratagem - dubbed Big Pines - in December 1981, Oxford professor Avi Shlaim suggests Eitan and Sharon aimed to implement it in stages, via Peace for Galilee.
(14) It is proposed that these changes in surface antigenicity constitute an evasive stratagem used by the parasite to deter the host from mounting a potentially lethal inflammatory response.
(15) This paper presents a series of stratagems designed to minimize the potential psychological problems of children who require dermatological surgery.
(16) The technical stratagems to model the nose are: (1) alignment of the premaxilla and (2) anatomic placement of the alar cartilages with sculpturing of the overlying soft tissue.
(17) Rotating the detector in close apposition to the head has required various stratagems to avoid detector-shoulder contact: the selective reduction of camera shielding, the use of long bore collimators, and the 30 degrees angulation of the camera head for slant hole collimation.
(18) In public, Walker employs moderate, conciliatory rhetoric, while privately, he gushes over more anti-union stratagems to come.
(19) These concepts may be important in designing treatment stratagems for intracellular pathogens.
(20) The slower antigenic change found for NA further supports the potential for NA-specific infection-permissive immunization as a useful stratagem against influenza.