11.   Dini pulled the final amendment today, saying he was afraid it would be interpreted as a political maneuver on his part.

12.   Elections invariably bring political maneuvers to help politicians look tough on drugs.

13.   His weapons have been poetic, if occasionally impenetrable, communiques of resistance, cunning political maneuvers, and insults.

14.   In any case, his room for political maneuver is limited.

15.   It is a political maneuver.

16.   Ms. Lynch rejected the idea that Assembly leaders had proposed the ban on Albany fund-raisers as a political maneuver.

17.   Neeman had balked at honoring the agreement, arguing that it had been a last-minute political maneuver.

18.   Radio talk shows debate the most minute political maneuver.

19.   Republicans countered that a more costly Democratic plan was a political maneuver that was so expensive it had no chance of ever becoming law.

20.   Several industry sources also said the turnaround on rates was a political maneuver.