Those were tense, high-risk discussions, and they couldn't have taken place in a less likely setting — a stately manor in the English countryside — or been engineered by a less prepossessing éminence grise.
The building was inspired by the way bubbles pack together in foam, and its unique, nonlinear skeleton was engineered by an Arup team.
The glittering, riveted-aluminum, lozenge-shaped trailer was engineered by an aircraft designer named William Hawley Bowlus in the 1930s (he also built the Spirit of St . Louis.
According to prevalent Muslim Brotherhood mythology, the downfall of President Mohamed Morsi was engineered by an unholy alliance consisting of the Egyptian military, led by Morsi-appointed General Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, Washington, and Israel cast in worst supporting role.
Change is painful, particularly when it is being engineered by an outsider who has spent the past eight years in New York and whose background is in museums rather than higher education.
They were engineered by an entrepreneur of women's hosiery, but have required almost no technological advances in the past 100 years.
The coup was engineered by a group composed, for the most part, of discontented Army officers — the original Young Turks.
Almost certainly, the confrontation with the rebels at Smithfield was engineered by a hard-line group of his counselors.
Government investigators said the crash was engineered by a cartel of top brokers, stock exchange officials, banks and financiers.
Gekko tells Jake that the collapse of Keller Zabel was engineered by a rival firm, Churchill Schwarz, and specifically by its resident prince of darkness, Bretton James Josh Brolinn).
