Sentence examples for contriving to from inspiring English sources

This is, surely, minimalism for halfwits, contriving to be at once linguistically bald and verbose.

Fiction is littered with instances of the protagonist contriving to attend their own funeral.

Well, apart from me contriving to go to the loo at the same time as Deyn.

He helped the family settle in Nice and, later, in Paris, contriving to keep an ocean between them and him.

It was hard to know which was the grander achievement – West Ham winning or Arsenal contriving to lose.

Some of this is along familiar lines academics collaborating with ever more foreign colleagues and sabbatical-seekers contriving to spend ever more time abroad.

At the time of the Italian madrigal's fullest flowering, German composers derived much inspiration from the south while still contriving to retain something of their earlier heritage.

After the death of the latter (1649), he successfully defended Clonmel in 1650 against Cromwell for over a week before contriving to escape.

ABN Amro has been disappointing shareholders for years and contriving to hide the real costs of its underpowered global banking operations.

A vote that had the further unfortunate consequence of School, within the space of a week, somehow contriving to lose two prime ministers.

In 1946 he was called up for national service in the RAF, somehow contriving to combine being a teleprinter operator with servicing flying boats.