The Court said the UK should have "room for manoeuvre" over eligibility for voting and its laws were proportionate.
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In fact, any government, especially a Socialist-led one, would have scant room for manoeuvre if France is to qualify for the euro on time.
In real terms, adjusted for consumer-price inflation, interest rates are already negative: for the first time since the mid-1970s. (Though using a different measure of inflation, they are still positive, just.) Although the context is very different, some commentators are already noting that the Bank of Japan has, for a prolonged period, had virtually no room for manoeuvre on monetary policy because Japanese interest rates have been negative for so long.
There's little hint of that in this discussion paper, but it seems the room for manoeuvre on competitive tax rates - particularly, let's say, for a newly independent Scotland negotiating with European partners - is getting sharply reduced.
There is little room for manoeuvre on the expenditure side, what with mandatory interest payments, transfers to the regions and salaries for civil servants.
Reality, officials in Berlin say, will give the French president very little room for manoeuvre.
Authorities say rescue operations are advancing slowly because there is little room for manoeuvre.
More trains mean tighter timetables and less room for manoeuvre when things go wrong.
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But, with American domestic support for the war falling away, they have little room for manoeuvre.
Even so, at first blush Mr Brown may seem to have plenty of room for manoeuvre.
In thinking about all this, Austria's narrow room for manoeuvre internationally ought not to be forgotten.
With more room for manoeuvre, predictions of both revenue and risk might become more rational.
Given the fragility of the coalition, Mr Sinha's room for manoeuvre has been limited.
That may be because he wished to leave the general some room for manoeuvre.
The pressure on Mr Talat may be more immediate, but Mr Christofias's room for manoeuvre is also circumscribed.
The booming economy has also given the governor more room for manoeuvre in the short term as well.
But the ruralistas are the largest cross-party block in Congress, and that limited the president's room for manoeuvre.
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Mr Clinton's room for manoeuvre in this political and diplomatic game is small.
The remit leaves little room for manoeuvre and the conclusions are wearily predictable.
In both cases Mr Blair has given himself room for manoeuvre by promising referendums when the time is ripe.
But Syrian room for manoeuvre, already small, is likely to shrink even further.
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The Lib Dems have greater room for manoeuvre than the other two parties because of their distance from power.
Kear told BBC Radio Leeds he has room for manoeuvre because the Wildcats have not yet reached their salary cap.
The surpluses thereby created were used to pay down debt, and gave the government its present ample room for manoeuvre.
With even the opposition in Britain urging a "hard-headed" approach to the EU's problems David Cameron has little room for manoeuvre.
Circumstances today are different, they argue: European governments began with higher debt and deficits, leaving them with less room for manoeuvre.
That, in fact, is a key part of his celebrated room for manoeuvre, in the face of this very weak recovery.
With 11 laps to go, Button made his move on Hamilton, with a manoeuvre that lasted for the last three corners.
But since he must offer both succour to debtor countries and reassurance to creditors, he has worryingly little room for manoeuvre.
As interest rates have fallen this year with, as yet, little apparent effect, so the Fed's room for manoeuvre has shrunk.
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