The intense feelings and delicate maneuvering on the pay issue reflect the extreme vulnerability that many members of Congress feel about voting themselves a pay raise.
So often do grandmasters favor delicate maneuvering that it is refreshing to see them slug it out from time to time.
This called for some delicate maneuvering.
Built for short hops and delicate maneuvering, the Skeeter began to groan and screech under the battering punishment of the storm winds.
The stay in Q-space was almost four minutes, near the longest the delicate maneuvering ever took.
And when journalists marry journalists from competing news organizations, delicate maneuvering is required - especially if, say, both are assigned to the same overseas post.
The alternative is to run the holes, which can be avoided at certain, specific levels by delicate maneuvering.
This March, after some delicate diplomatic maneuvering by the Japanese government, Lebanon expelled four Red Army members.
Even with Hushidh and Issib to counsel you, it's going to take some delicate maneuvering to get them to accept you in the first place.
Reagan Administration officials today described a process of delicate maneuvering over the last few months to encourage the Seoul Government to accept a range of political initiatives.