Some saw an attempt by Mr Balls to jockey for position in a post-Gordon Brown government.

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Rather, 2012 will be the year we begin seeing the vendors jockey for position.

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Both sides will have to jockey for position with an eye towards 2012.

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Although the single-line method may be faster, Mr. Hammack says customers generally prefer to "jockey for position" in separate lines.

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But for poorer countries that jockey for position nearer the foot of the table, money as well as pride is at stake.

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The banking system is in a state of total chaos, as is macroeconomic policy, as politicians jockey for position ahead of presidential elections in March 2003.

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Launched in late 2009 with backing from Egyptian-based Orascom Telecom, WIND Mobile was the first of several new wireless entrants to attempt to jockey for position in Canada's wireless industry.

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Facing one of her toughest-ever fields, including her old foe Hay List, admittedly not the force he once was, and the in-form Bel Sprinter, Black Caviar's regular rider Luke Nolen had to jockey for position in the early stages as he sought to overcome an unfavorable inside draw.

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Or will they will jockey for a position and outbid one another for a place around the Cabinet table?

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Unlike at the Metropolitan Museum or MoMA, where on an average busy day it becomes easy to hate the rest of the human race as you jockey with fellow art lovers for post position in front of a popular Vermeer or Picasso, at the Frick or Morgan you can often have a world-class El Greco or Ingres all to yourself.

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