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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.
President-elect Donald Trump’s allies are quickly jockeying for positions in a new Trump new administration on the heels of his decisive victory, sources familiar with the matter told CNN ...
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.
AT&T began implementing its staggered five-day return-to-office mandate on Monday. Workers told BI that limited available desks and elevators at some offices complicated their return.
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"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.
From the start of Chamberlain's premiership a number of would-be successors were rumoured to be jockeying for position. [74] Chamberlain had disliked what he considered to be the overly sentimental attitude of both Baldwin and MacDonald on Cabinet appointments and reshuffles.