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Jockeying position (right) In association football, jockeying (also called "shepherding" or "guiding") is the defender's skill of keeping between the attacker and their intended target (usually the goal).
In the 16th and 17th centuries the word was applied to horse-dealers, postilions, itinerant minstrels and vagabonds, and thus frequently bore the meaning of a cunning trickster, a "sharp", whence the verb to jockey, "to outwit", or "to do" a person out of something. The current meaning of a person who rides a horse in races was first seen in 1670.
With the exception of the longer, 870-yard (800 m) distance contests, Quarter Horse races are run flat out, with the horses running at top speed for the duration. There is less jockeying for position, as turns are rare, and many races end with several contestants grouped together at the wire.
"What Namier's minutely detailed studies revealed was the fact that politics in 1760 consisted mainly in the jockeying for position and influence by individuals within the political elite" rather than ideas such as liberty or democracy, or rivalry with foreign kings, or social effects of industrial and technological change.
Simple English; Slovenčina ... premiership a number of would-be successors were rumoured to be jockeying for position. ... Chamberlain as well-meaning but weak ...
A fight over coronavirus aid has revealed lawmakers looking past a dire November and toward potential new power structures to come.
There’s also extensive jockeying between influential voices like Trump’s sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and other transition staffers, including chief of staff Susie Wiles. “It’s ...
The New York Times quotes the president of Swarthmore College saying at the time, "We not only have the Ivy League, and the pretty clearly understood though seldom mentioned gradations within the Ivy League, but we have the Little Ivy League, and the jockeying for position within that."