1850, Charlotte Brontë, ... but then it came of itself: it was not elicited by meretricious arts and calculated manœuvres; and one had but to accept it — to answer what he asked ...
1954, Gilbert Ryle, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, dilemma vii: Perception, page 103 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)We can ask how long it was before the team scored its first goal; or how long the centre-forward spent in manœuvring the ball towards the goal; and even how long the ball was in flight between his kicking it and its going between the goal-posts. But we cannot ask how many seconds were occupied in the scoring of the goal.
2003, David Miller, Political Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction, page 7 (Oxford University Press)... and the belief that states had increasingly little room for manœuvre if they wanted their people to benefit from it.
