Sentence examples for machinations employed from inspiring English sources
On the negotiations for a 1975 world championship match with Anatoly Karpov, which ultimately collapsed and led Fischer to resign the title, Brady writes, "The story of the machinations employed to enable the Fischer-Karpov world championship match to take place are enough to fill a separate book — and have!
The hoops and machinations employed by boards, management and association attorneys effectively slam the door shut on a titleholder's ability to protect his or her interests and assets.
But the record must be set straight so we can properly acknowledge Senator Kerry's service, and so the world can see the unsavory machinations routinely employed by the self-appointed party of moral values.
JUDITH HOPE East Hampton, N.Y., May 21, 2013 To the Editor: Apple's avoiding taxes?! Here's the solution: Tax all companies incorporated in the United States on their worldwide income, regardless of the machinations they employ to hide income from taxes.
EARLIER this month, Ann Coulter took to the airwaves of the Fox News network to denounce the dastardly machinations, large mendacity and mad villainy currently employed by the American president.
Indeed, "unfair" preferential treatment in a line at a box office often gives rise to some of the darker human emotions, which are rarely evoked by the same unfair preferential treatment that is employed by a distant ticket agency whose machinations go unobserved by the customer.
Desmond and Moore resume the bravura style they employed to dramatic effect in their 1991 biography of Darwin, spurring the historical horses into a gallop, striding across far-flung shores, echoing the thunder of distant battlefields, anatomising the machinations of power, and spicing the whole with artful touches for the reader to relish.
