Indeed, Merkel s room for maneuver will be reduced.

Using it for investment would enhance long term growth, with positive spillovers to the rest of Europe.

Some countries, like Germany, have room for fiscal maneuver.

Thus, policymakers have ample room to maneuver if anything should go wrong.

And when he finally does acknowledge reality, he will have little room for maneuver.

Nor is it clear what room for discretion has been provided to the European Commission to address such outcomes.

Though the US had disproportionate economic clout, its room for political and military maneuver was constrained by Soviet power.

Most European leaders understand the tiny wiggle room that Kerry will have if elected.

Today s emerging countries have considerable policy flexibility and much greater latitude to act than they had in the past.

Regardless of which route we choose, the world s current predicament limits our room to maneuver.

Because there is no current blueprint for this move, one can only speculate about what it would look like.

True, there is room to run the government more efficiently, especially in the areas of education and health care. But will these savings be enough to offset the burden of a significantly larger overall government?

The key question at this stage is whether Germany will give the ECB the freedom of maneuver needed to carry out this monetary expansion with sufficient boldness.

True, there is room to run the government more efficiently, especially in the areas of education and health care.

Lawyer Gamal Eid said he believed her release was part of a government maneuver to improve its image.

The war, and the way it has been conducted, has reduced America s room for maneuver, and will almost surely deepen and prolong the economic downturn.

During the latter part of this maneuver, July 6 8, US President Barack Obama is supposed to meet President Medvedev in Moscow.

The war, and the way it has been conducted, has reduced America s room for maneuver, and will almost surely deepen and prolong the economic downturn.

Discussions also center on the control of the security services a field in which neither Fatah nor Hamas have much room to maneuver.

Second, there is little flexibility European policymakers cannot overcome the crisis if they do not eliminate the currency problem and the resulting default risk.

Realism will give the US more maneuverability in the short term, but it will have to sacrifice some of its soft power to achieve this. Whether America is able to strengthen its global influence in the future will depend not so much on its moral esteem, but on the extent to which it succeeds in revamping its economy and forging new alliances.

The room to maneuver he carved from the Warsaw Pact with the support of the West brought no benefits to the Romanian people.

Realism will give the US more maneuverability in the short term, but it will have to sacrifice some of its soft power to achieve this.

Its consequences first and foremost the reciprocal sanctions between the West and Russia have provided Minsk, which is still feeling the pressure of sanctions itself, with long awaited room to manoeuvre.

A couple of weeks after the project was initiated, France and Italy submitted revised annual budgets to the European Commission, in which they demanded more fiscal room for maneuver.

A few prominent personalities say Preval brought him in as a distraction from the failed election mess, a bait and switch of sorts.

For that reason, a Sarkozy debacle would drastically reduce his Socialist successor s room for maneuver on European policy, fundamentally altering France s position in Europe.

Clearly, the clerical elite is concerned about the future of its leadership after Khamenei. Should a succession process begin soon, it would significantly constrain Rouhani s room for maneuver.

On trade, Romney promises to launch a trade war with China, and to declare it a currency manipulator on Day One a promise that gives him little wiggle room.

The irony is that Medvedev has almost no room for maneuver, despite holding one of the most powerful presidencies in the world.

But spending by the central government is such a small percentage of the country s total GDP that policymakers have a lot of room for maneuver if intervention becomes necessary in these areas.

The real problem, however, is less the economic contraction than the very limited room for maneuver that the government enjoys in a country that dollarized its economy in 2001.

Credible measures that deliver and anchor savings in the medium term will help create space to accommodate growth today by allowing a slower pace of consolidation. Of course, the precise path is different for each country, as some are under market pressure and have no choice, while others have more space.

Since George W. Bush showed the way towards bank nationalization, vast public spending, industrial bailouts, and budget deficits, the Socialists have been left without wiggle room. French President Nicolas Sarkozy tries to rekindle growth through the protectionist defense of national industries and huge investments in public infrastructure, so what more can Socialists ask for?

For all the loose talk of an American empire, the fact is that the US does not have colonies that it must administer, and thus has more freedom to maneuver than the UK did.

Of course, the precise path is different for each country, as some are under market pressure and have no choice, while others have more space.

Since George W. Bush showed the way towards bank nationalization, vast public spending, industrial bailouts, and budget deficits, the Socialists have been left without wiggle room.

It is not entirely far fetched to assume that Netanyahu finally calculated that if he wants more room to maneuver to deal with Iran, he must participate in the peace process with the Palestinians.

Hu no doubt looked for ways to resuscitate the talks, but not by buying off Kim with aid. Rather, Hu would have determined the level of Kim s readiness to resume, what preconditions and incentives are at play, and what room for maneuver exists, given the position of the other parties.

There is by now little room for maneuver in the economy the positive effect of devaluation has worn off, world oil prices are falling again (and with them the state's prime source of revenue), the debt crisis lingers.

Yet we nonetheless believed that the opposition, led by the Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD), would have room to maneuver and campaign, owing to the government s desire for international legitimacy.

Surely there is room across divides of party and nation to address these pressing humanitarian needs, which otherwise would only fuel future political trouble.

Rather, Hu would have determined the level of Kim s readiness to resume, what preconditions and incentives are at play, and what room for maneuver exists, given the position of the other parties.

Compared to 2008 2009, when policymakers had ample space to act, monetary and fiscal authorities are running out of policy bullets (or, more cynically, policy rabbits to pull out of their hats).

This is by no means new in development theory, and is often portrayed as either the keystone to successful development or a red herring (and to be fair, it's probably both).