These are compelling characteristics in a heroine, even if they make her repeated misunderstanding of certain plot machinations a little hard to accept.
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of Arar v. Ashcroft, through a series of machinations declaring certain claims insufficiently pleaded, others bifurcated, and the law permitting government agents to be sued not applicable, has dismissed the claims of Maher Arar.
Joe Parker, a political science professor at the University of Southern Mississippi, said the agency's machinations at times had "a certain comic quality".
One big question is whether Wall Street executives were strong-armed by Enron into investing in LJM2 as a way to help Enron's behind-the-scenes financial machinations, or whether Enron gave certain investment bankers who worked with Enron a sweetheart deal as a reward.
As with sex, perhaps, we are, in certain ways, reluctant to talk about the machinations of finance, for fear of dispelling some mystery — believing that mystery is actually part of the transaction, much like the idea of how we want capitalism on the way up, and socialism on the way down.
Ausubel is sensitive to our precarious position between safety and peril — locked out of full access to one another's inner lives, locked into the pitiless machinations of our own biological systems, left certain only of our uncertainties.
Yes, many of the machinations were Machiavellian, but there was a certain brilliance to some of the moves, as in a chess game masterfully played.
I'm no expert on the machinations of a cocaine deal, but I'm almost certain it doesn't involve a man in a two-piece suit whispering nothings at you whilst repeatedly eating the cocaine.
The nature of our society and the opaque and sometimes inexplicable machinations of the state make it difficult to ever know anything for certain in advance.
Even if, due to arcane coalition machinations, it is unable to form a government, the Law and Justice party (PiS) looks certain to emerge as the largest single parliamentary group.
