Sentence examples for having contrived from inspiring English sources

Facebook paid a grand total of £4,327 in UK corporation tax in 2014, after having contrived a paper "loss" on its operations here by granting £35.4m in bonuses to staff.

In 2006 the claims were of systematic rigging at boardroom level, with a number of teams, and their directors, found guilty (although many continue to contest the verdicts) of having contrived to weight the whole footballing infrastructure in their favour.

That may be my memory suggesting they were more numerous than in reality, simply because they looked so striking, your average psychobilly having contrived to attain a look that was simultaneously utterly ridiculous and disquietingly hard and menacing.

The French sides, in contrast, will all have to travel in the semi-finals, their quartet of survivors having contrived to book a direct shoot-out with each other.

But having contrived Richard's abdication and imprisonment, and having had himself crowned as King Henry IV, he moves with cunning vagueness — the vagueness that confers what politicians call "deniability" — to take the essential last step.

Mr Putin, having contrived to assemble 47 world leaders for a series of international summits to coincide with the city's 300th anniversary, was showing the world the former imperial capital in its full glory.It was the high summer of Mr Putin's relations with the West.

"We couldn't have contrived it if we tried".

It has contrived to appear principled and patriotic.

Somehow, through it all, they have contrived a signature sound.

"That's a very creative conclusion to have contrived".

He has contrived to be bribed into changing his mind.