Sentence examples for corrupt machinations from inspiring English sources

"Bread and Circus" (1987) told of Boss Tweed's corrupt machinations in New York City.

Father Giraldo continued, "the corrupt machinations he used to obtain his re-election as President in 2006 were sordid in the extreme".

In most countries people have to go through numerous time-consuming, expensive and often corrupt machinations in order to start a legal business.

Wisconsin voters who will see the "Vote Yes for Democracy" ads will have no knowledge of the corrupt machinations behind the scenes and the unprecedented case that is unwinding behind the closed doors of the state's highest court.

Indeed, these seemingly opposing positions are not mutually exclusive; one could, for example, seek to distance oneself from perceived corrupt political machinations, find meaning in spiritual pursuits, and engage in political renewal.

Instead of being a Costa Gravas-esque look at the corrupt political machinations at the Alaskan state level, it's yet another story about a bespectacled governor who lets random Russian interlopers lay their pipelines.

"Pompeii" isn't perfect: there's an unconvincing subplot about a burgeoning romance between Attilius and Ampliatus' feisty daughter, Corelia, and, perhaps inevitably, the business about the corrupt real estate machinations, however historically accurate, ultimately pales in comparison with the looming natural disaster.

But inescapably, through his own moral failings and the machinations of corrupt prosecutors, activists and journalists, he meets his downfall.

Sherman, the self-styled "Master of the Universe," at first exults in his escape from what he calls "the jungle". But inescapably, through his own moral failings and the machinations of corrupt prosecutors, activists and journalists, he meets his downfall.

Mr. Mamet's other recent new plays were more grounded — the legal arguments over a rape case in "Race," the machinations of a corrupt American president in "November" — and yet none have approached the popularity of earlier works like "Glengarry" and another boys-behaving-badly masterpiece, "Speed-the-Plow".

FROM THE EARLIEST days America sought to stand apart from the vanities and machinations that had corrupted monarchies in Europe.