Sentence examples for engineer a situation from inspiring English sources
That, of course assumed that policy-makers genuinely cared whether Iraq had WMD, rather than trying to engineer a situation of non-compliance with the UN.
They alleged that he had plotted to engineer a situation that would leave Railtrack no choice but to go into administration.
Apple worked hard to engineer a situation in which a song purchased on iTunes can be played on up to five computers you authorise, and as many iPods as you want.
Clearly the intent is to engineer a situation where they bring pressure to bear on housing associations or the local authority so they can buy their property at a 70% discount rather than pay the artificially engineered higher "market" rent.
Under vague slogans like 'diversity and choice' or 'opening up public services', you can engineer a situation where direct public sector provision in effect disappears as public bodies and private firms become utterly indistinguishable".
Prosecuting Shaun Smith QC, said: "We suggest that's because he was keen to engineer a situation where he persuaded women to make contact with him privately by phone or text message or email so he was not being watched by the match.com website".
Most notably, Megawati engineered a situation, too complicated to relate, that put the President on the wrong side of a damaging conflict between the deeply unpopular police and the respected anti-corruption commission.
Ironically, at the one moment Dodi realised his father's ambitions for him, he had simultaneously engineered a situation in which he might break free from him for the first time in his life.
That night, the man who assaulted me engineered a situation to ensure he had me alone – and I realise now it was a clever game played by someone who had done all this before.
But it was then the Czech Thatcherite politician, Vaclav Klaus, who engineered a situation in which the Slovaks, as it were, fell into independence, without stopping to consider whether they really wanted it.
Labour may have now engineered a situation where our children can never earn enough to pay off this debt.
