Sentence examples for illegal machinations from inspiring English sources
Jake's role model is another man of probity, Louis Zabel (the infinitely sad Frank Langella), the head of an old-fashioned investment bank that's in the process, so it appears, of being destroyed by a combination of unwise loans and the illegal machinations of a rival: the brutal, fleshy Bretton James Josh Brolinn, who played George W Bush in Stone's flabby W).
Out of economic deprivation comes violence – not because poor people have bad attitudes or cultural deficiencies, but because without a real economic safety net, the machinations required for survival can involve illegal business.
The show's scandals -- while largely unthinkable and illegal -- are at least not simply partisan machinations.
First of all, the illegal immigration flow, according to Trump, begins with the machinations of "Mexico's leaders".
Ultimately, though, this is a lesson in deal-making and how the machinations surrounding any sale can lead those involved to extreme measures, even possibly illegal ones.
It lost Lebanon to French machinations.
"Justice has been sacrificed to political machinations".
"The machinations are fascinating," she adds.
But these are surface plot machinations.
These machinations seem, from the first, halfhearted.
