Globalisation, America and the European Union are all said to have had a hand in the plot to efface secularism.
According to tradition, Alboin was assassinated by order of his wife Rosamund after he had forced her to follow the Lombard custom of drinking from the skull of her slain father; the Byzantines seem to have had a hand in the plot.
(The best water joke in the picture comes from watching a natural occurrence in a bucolic setting that may make you think twice about the bottled water in your hand.) Such a plot device is at least self-consciously silly, as is, unfortunately, Jennifer Love Hewitt as Del Blaine, an ambitious know-it-all agency scientist who is assigned to the case.
An appropriately free hand with the adaptation results in a plot that feels natural enough that it could have been an original movie -- the ultimate compliment.
The legislation is moving through Congress as the Obama administration considers whether to declassify a portion of a 2002 congressional investigation of the Sept. 11 attacks that cited some evidence that Saudi government officials and other Saudi citizens living in the United States had a hand in the terrorist plot.
Xenophon senior then maimed his hand in a terrible accident out on the plot, and Xenophon junior had to sell off the holding.
Or getting your hands dirty in a community plot with rows of tomatos and kale?
In April, the defendant, Tarik Shah, 44, admitted taking part in a plot to teach would-be Qaeda operatives to wage jihad with hand-to-hand combat.
Mr. Silver's associates say he believes that Mr. Vallone had a hand in plots to overthrow him, and he worked to undermine Mr. Vallone's 1998 campaign for governor.
Far from remaining aloof in a Broadcasting House eyrie, the 47-year-old former journalist, who started her career in 1979 working one day a week for a small New York radio station sponsored by its listeners, has a hand in everything from future plots of The Archers (often decided two years in advance) to the direction of the station's flagship current affairs programmes.
