room for maneuver

alternative room to maneuver

1. uncountableSynonym of wiggle room.

   To this end, Obama and Romney will need to lift the impediments to growth and job creation. Here again – in areas like housing, the labor market, credit intermediation, and infrastructure – there is less room for maneuver than most politicians would like us to believe.

   2012 August 2, Mohamed el-Erian, “Winner of US election will have limited economic options”, in The Guardian

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   “He doesn’t have much room for maneuver,” said Sam Hill, a fixed-income fund manager at Threadneedle in London. “On the one hand he wants to loosen fiscal policy, but on the other hand he’s already in a massive hole, and if he does anything to make that worse the market will react very negatively.”

   2009 April 21, Julia Werdigier, “Little Room to Maneuver on Budget for Britain”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

   Synonyms: wiggle room