manoeuvrings

Initially when I tried getting into Nigeriaworld and failed and then tried the Thisday and Guardian websites without any luck, I wondered if it was some conspiracy related to the third term manoeuvrings in Abuja....but then I was able to get into the Guardian and Thisday websites and realized that nothing earthshaking had happened as yet.

Missing Nigeriaworld, and musing on terrorist piss-taking uknaija 2006

But most of the essays are about the cynical manoeuvrings of Israeli politicians.

Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations by Avi Shlaim Rafael Behr 2010

So it was almost fun – as much as manoeuvrings in a bank boardroom can ever be – to hear of HSBC's finest fighting like ferrets in a sack over who should be chairman: chief executive Mike Geoghegan, finance director Douglas Flint or non-executive director John Thornton.

HSBC's elevation of Douglas Flint flouts best boardroom practice Julia Finch 2010

I love to read, 60-odd years on, about the frantic manoeuvrings that went on beneath the surface.

Lucy Mangan: RIP Golden Age of Hollywood Lucy Mangan 2010

The alleged covert manoeuvrings, on the other hand, are much worse.

Discourse.net: Of Koh, Johnsen ... and Bork 2009

And while much has been made of the formal confirmation of Kim Jong-un as successor to the family business of dictatorship, close observers of the country are far more intrigued by other manoeuvrings around Kim Jong-un's anticipated promotion.

North Korean elite secretly jostle for the reins of power Peter Beaumont 2010

PM on Thursday was also excellent: Andrew Marr putting Murdoch's manoeuvrings into context and John Prescott frothing with righteous anger.

Rewind radio: Who provided the best phone-hacking coverage? 2011

Do not miss Magic Kids, a rising quartet from Nashville, whose orchestral manoeuvrings will open the show.

Mrs. Tansy Maude Peregrine: Denver's Essential Concert Calendar 2010

The massive investment in top-heavy institutions of democracy in Iraq, which are connected to a federated and weak state system, has created instant political elites whose original ties and lineage may be tracked back through sectarian/ethnic ties, but whose real interests increasingly lie in their manoeuvrings in the murky waters of court politics.

James Denselow: Beirut in Baghdad 2010

The massive investment in top-heavy institutions of democracy in Iraq, which are connected to a federated and weak state system, has created instant political elites whose original ties and lineage may be tracked back through sectarian/ethnic ties, but whose real interests increasingly lie in their manoeuvrings in the murky waters of court politics.

Beirut in Baghdad 2010