Sentence examples for it was stage-managed from inspiring English sources

In Baghdad, it was stage-managed for TV.

As with all the previous murders, plans for the last hoorah – the simultaneous death of father and son, Freddie and Emil, by hanging, and the possible death of Freddie's new son if the drop from Freddie's arms was enough to do it – were stage-managed in the extreme.

As he presented those cheques and declared himself "the Hart of the city", it was hard not to feel that the occasion was stage-managed for publicity.

It's a sign that the leader plays by the same rules as everyone else; you can't accuse him of stage management, unless his straying into the red was stage-managed.

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's public appearance at a university graduation ceremony Friday — leaving the confinement of his mansion — was stage-managed by the military to deflect accusations it took control of the country Wednesday in a military coup.

But the affair is tacked on to the end of the book and Turney hesitates to pursue its implications – that the morally redemptive story of Scott's death was stage-managed to obscure a competing narrative of sauve qui peut.

But, if the arrest was stage-managed, the plan backfired.

Well, he says, "we were warmly received, but everything was stage-managed.

UNDER Tony Blair's leadership, much of the fun was stage-managed out of Labour Party conferences.

A report in the Los Angeles Times in 2004 suggested that the toppling of the statue was stage-managed.

The whole thing was stage-managed by Qassim Suleimani, the shadowy commander who runs external operations for Iran's Revolutionary Guards.