Sentence examples for a devious path from inspiring English sources

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Laval was succeeded by another prewar politician, Pierre-Étienne Flandin, and he, in turn, by Admiral François Darlan, who was intensely anti-British and an intriguer by nature who followed a devious path that involved continuing efforts at active collaboration with the Germans.

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The technique of scaling from model to ship therefore must follow a somewhat devious path whose principal steps are as follows: (1) Total resistance of the model is measured.

Drug giants "do it in a devious way," he says.

He preferred to describe his torments in exquisite detail, drawing the devious path of a pain with his finger, tracking across his chest, down to his groin, around to the side and back again, rising to the throat.

In a hypothetical universe where the election is close, he is now considering the devious path.

In the spy novel Operación Gladio, Benjamín Prado guided the reader through Spain's devious path filled with conquests and renunciations, historical agreements and shameful pacts, during the Transition, as the period from dictatorship to democracy is known.

The difference is that no one, except the invisible Mr. Market perhaps, could foresee this peculiar and devious path to political and economic heaven.

"When the long Darkness spreads itself over the country, many hidden things are revealed, and men's thoughts travel along devious paths," a west Greenlander told the explorer Knud Rasmussen sometime around 1904.

But, although he forges a strong relationship with the rebel leader, he is forced into ever more devious paths, secretly misleads his Pakistani allies and Washington senators and stakes his reputation on the need to supply the rebels with Stinger missiles.

Mufflers of early design contained sets of baffles that reversed the flow of the gases or otherwise caused them to follow devious paths so that interference between the pressure waves reduced the pulsations.

He secures his revenge in a devious but devastating way.

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