Sentence examples for machinations by from inspiring English sources

Machinations by the Pakistani army's spy agency in the 1990s helped bring the Taliban to power.

His fall was, in part, the result of machinations by unnamed enemies.

Mr. Bearak has been caught up in shifting legal machinations by the authorities.

Mr. Bearak was caught up in shifting legal machinations by the authorities.

Delhi took the line that the whole incident was an unfortunate accident, not involving any machinations by the Italians.

Shannon Miller had complicated the machinations by hobbling off after two dodgy vaults, and she withdrew from the trials.

The understanding for the moment seems to be a truly bizarre (to an outsider) machination by Shajahan Khan, the government's Shipping Minister, a blustery mustachioed pol accused of playing a violent game to build support in upcoming elections.

Closing the loophole has been repeatedly set back by statehouse machinations, but by fewer and fewer votes.

Dense, conspiratorial and with a sadistic gleam in Bogart's eye, the film minted a new American screen sensibility, one in which the compromised hero, beset by dark machinations, got by on attitude alone.

Many hedgehogs will tell you that market volatility is caused less by their leveraged machinations than by the growth of program trading.

Starved by the easy genre machinations suggested by its own concept, "The Purge" is an emptying experience indeed.