Possible Clues:

• General to ponder, we hear, room for manoeuvre
• Little uprising in place to get freedom of action
• Room to manoeuvre by river path
• Drift - scope for action
• Lost ground on general method
• Room or place in which minute may be taken up
• Place, climbing in which there's very little room to manoeuvre
• Does this give one room for a little turn-up in a poetic setting?
• Margin, latitude, room
• Room to manoeuvre, latitude