Scientists and activists spoke of the dispersants as if they had been concocted in a weapons lab.
Policy toward the United States — especially military policy — is concocted in a black box at the government's highest levels, Mr. Swaine and others said.
In part, this is because the characters are so two-dimensional that they, like their scaly co-stars, might as well have been concocted in a laboratory for our entertainment.
Intelligence sources also said that they could not rule out the possibility that Mr Litvinenko's illness had been concocted in a way that implicated the Kremlin or Russian intelligence services.
Seed, as explained by the Dutch professor of anatomy Isbrand de Diemerbroeck, was concocted in a complicated process from the blood into ' a frothy Liquor' whose composition was mainly salty, from which derived 'its fruitfulness and balsamic Power' and the term 'salacity' for lust.
Mr. Ran was arrested May 26 on bribery charges, which his family contends were concocted in an effort to silence his anticorruption investigation.
Such a marvel of biochemistry has been concocted in an environment fabled by popular myth for turning its inhabitants into thugs, regardless of gender.
In the wake of that test, baseball's investigators uncovered evidence that a cover-up had been concocted in an effort to have Cabrera's positive test thrown out and, in connection with that discovery, began to take a close look at Cabrera's agents, Sam and Seth Levinson, and one of their employees, Juan Nunez.
During a parliamentary hearing on targeted killings, Fallon argued that the government would have been justified in launching a pre-emptive drone strike if it had known that plans to attack British holidaymakers on the beach in Tunisia were being concocted in an Islamic State training camp in Libya.
It's a fantastical scene that could only be concocted in the minds of seven and five year olds.
