(1) We find contemptible the political machinations of Mssers.

(2) He typified a decade in which financial machinations stymied long-term corporate growth.

(3) His total disinterest in the machinations of money bewildered his brothers, his father and extended family.

(4) If such machinations are seldom heard of in this period it is unlikely to be because they were rare.

(5) The machinations of corporate sharks were a slightly hazy area in her experience.

(6) Her machinations appear intended to secure a Bush victory-nothing else.

(7) He was also aware of various machinations on his behalf in Paris.

(8) We may be fed up with the machinations of elected officials who are obsessed with gaining political advantage over one another.

(9) All the machinations of the complicated plot.

(10) B.'s lascivious machinations is a fascinatingly rendered love story.

(11) A connoisseur of politics can savor the machinations of a Neville Chamberlain or Winston Churchill.

(12) They're not into the machinations that folks in Washington are.

(13) Through the machinations of the evil Fairy...the level of the lake begins to subside.

(14) 'S struggle to make music despite the machinations of Soviet politics.

(15) There are also political machinations and rivalries(), and an environmental angle as well.

(16) They care little for the machinations and politics of "ground folk", and they rarely interfere with changeling society.

(17) Much of the program involved the daily machinations of pirate life.

(18) Despite a commitment to more open government, the public are still being kept in the dark about the inner machinations of the Cabinet.

(19) I don't want to get involved in all his machinations.

(20) And there were endless meetings and private conversations and arcane machinations, many never recorded.

(21) More crudely, they are written off as a rampaging mob, victim to primitive urges or the machinations of conspirators.

(22) It would be a mistake, however, to ascribe this sensitivity purely to the propaganda and machinations of the Communists.

(23) The script does a poor job of explaining the complicated sociopolitical machinations that many believe will accompany the end-time.

(24) Consciousness is more than the sum of its parts, however, despite some philosophers branding it as merely an epiphenomenon, the noise that comes from the machinations of the mind.

(25) Ontheir eighth album, they stay true to form in their machinations of artfrom misery; pop from catastrophe and embitterment; beauty from heartwrenching bitterness.

(26) The ECCC was given the go-ahead in 2005 but was delayed by bail hearings, appeals and pre-trial machinations.

(27) Unification of aim: survival and avoidance of the destruction hanging over your heads as a consequence of the machinations of psychopathy.

(28) How many people today really imagine "art" as a privileged category, exempt from the machinations of the marketplace?

(29) Please check back in the future for a full disclosure of her Flash Mob machinations.

(30) I think it was informed by the need to safeguard that important position from political machinations, said Mboya.

(31) But their hands have always been tied by bureaucratic machinations.

(32) I've read about Mr Usmonov's arrest, and the political machinations around it: it's a very sad story all round.

(33) Their good intentions, bony torsos, tight ships, neat corners, cerebral machinations, and pat solutions loom like dark clouds over the loose, comfortable, spread-out, soft world of the fat.

(34) In my case, this understanding was swept aside through the machinations of the group.

(35) These singulars, according to Occam, gained their existence by being posited by God but remain independent of any divine machinations in their causal and operative powers.

(36) Only a few notes separate these blithe romantic machinations from film noir.

(37) We know that what our eyes see goes through the amygdala before any cognitive machinations take place.