What is "jockeyed for position"

Usage examples of "jockeyed for position".

But beneath compliant manners, each Lord jockeyed for position, and counted enemies, and made compacts.

There were brief shuffling sounds as he and the trooper jockeyed for position, then he was past and dashing upward again.

Vendora moved to a more central position and Feston, Duncan, and Basil jockeyed for position immediately behind.

Tina jockeyed for position so that she, too, could see the display.

You could have pushed, jockeyed for position, used your commendation to leap over the heads of everyone on the promotions list.

They just packed up his stuff while he sat, tearless now, on the sofa in the parlor, waiting to be taken away from this place, from the old lady who had drawn death out of his fingers, from the people who had jockeyed for position as they waited years for her to die, and from the children who played dark ugly games with each other by the swimming pool when no adult could see.

Two other copters jockeyed for position near the observation deck near the top of the mountain, that cunningly crafted platform of stone that seemed such a natural part of the land.