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How to use the word maneuvers in a Sentence?

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The Chinese ship illuminated the green laser light twice toward the BRP Malapascua, causing temporary blindness to her crew at the bridge. The Chinese vessel also made dangerous maneuvers by approaching about 150 yards from the vessel’s starboard quarter, the deliberate blocking of the Philippine government ships to deliver food and supplies to our military personnel on board the BRP Sierra Madre is a blatant disregard for, and a clear violation of, Philippine sovereign rights in this part of the West Philippine Sea.

The Chinese ship

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When you start having this new dimension of aerial maneuvers, it becomes a whole new world. And your brain has to change to deal with that.

Eugenia Gold

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think when you have people that go for attention-seeking maneuvers, you leave yourself potentially open to having the wrong type of attention.

Patrick Cantlay

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The U.S. crews issued multiple warnings via bridge-to-bridge radio, five short blasts from the ships’ horns, and while the (Iranian) Harth 55 responded to the bridge-to-bridge radio queries, they continued the unsafe maneuvers, after approximately three hour of the U.S. issuing warning and conducting defensive maneuvers, the (Iranian) vessels maneuvered away from the U.S. ships and opened distance between them.

Rebecca Rebarich

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It's always a negotiation, we don't have time to negotiate with the guard to say,' You need to remove these restraints now.' If a( baby's) shoulder gets stuck and we need to do emergency maneuvers that require the woman to move, we can't do that if she's shackled.

Carolyn Sufrin

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We found two out of three patients can avoid a ventilator during the first 24 hours by putting them on oxygen and doing these positioning maneuvers, such as laying them prone on their stomach.

Richard Levitan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Dads have to resort to all these maneuvers because there's no changing stations in our restrooms.

John Legend

Found on CNN
4 years ago

They have failed to realize that the opposition camp is using them merely as pawns in its maneuvers to reap political gains by damaging the SAR government's credibility and reputation, or that some foreign forces are seizing the opportunity to advance their own strategy to hurt China by trying to create havoc in Hong Kong.

China Daily

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I knew that he knew the maneuvers to do the position and everything.

Anita Duran

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

We are also sanctioning the shipping and transportation companies, and their vessels, that facilitate North Korea’s trade and its deceptive maneuvers.

Steven Mnuchin

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

An investigation is underway, we're looking to determine whether the cartel maneuvers witnessed in Brazil were replicated here in some form. Odebrecht is one of those implicated.

Sergio Rodriguez

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Planned Parenthood's self-interested political maneuvers will never silence free speech or the citizen press.

David Daleiden

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

One hundred percent this (training) is based on the lessons that we learned watching the challenges in Ramadi and Tikrit and Sinjar and Baiji where the enemy had obstacle belts, it's about breaching obstacles just like we do in conventional maneuvers.

Sean MacFarland

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's about breaching obstacles just like we do in conventional maneuvers.

Sean MacFarland

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

One of the maneuvers conducted by the Chinese aircraft during this intercept was perceived as unsafe by the RC-135 air crew and at this point, right now, there's no indication this was a near collision, but the report that came back was that the plane operated in an unsafe fashion.

Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If you ever have any doubt whether the Cold War is back on, I mean these are the kind of maneuvers that show that it is, i think there has been a re-establishment, probably not to the intensity it was in the '80s, but a re-establishment of, in essence, kind of Cold War principles, where, you know, at that time, it was all a show of force from both sides.

Adam Kinzinger

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I cannot stand by while these provisions are slipped into an otherwise excellent bill through underhanded maneuvers that run contrary to our democratic process.

Jackie Speier

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Your mind must always go, even while you're shaking hands and going through all the maneuvers. I developed the ability long ago to do one thing while thinking about another.

Richard Milhous Nixon

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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