Sentence examples for machinations to avoid from inspiring English sources

And Bill Clinton's machinations to avoid military service led to accusations that he was a draft-dodging product of the 1960's, a label he was never entirely able to shake.

In blunt and methodical fashion, federal prosecutors today began sketching out their tax fraud case against Albert J. Pirro Jr., Westchester's most prominent real estate development lawyer, calling him a wealthy and powerful man with "unbridled greed" who orchestrated "amazing financial machinations" to avoid paying taxes.

She said, however, that she thought the mayor's intention was to avoid the political machinations of the past.

Attracted to the trade, the young, artsy type, desperate to avoid the corporate machinations of life in a chain bookshop, finds themselves occupying a strange and unsatisfying middle ground "It's unclear what you are," Patrick says.

Not since JR Ewing's pomp have events in Dallas held such fascination in Liverpool as they did last week with Tom Hicks' ultimately futile machinations, yet Merseyside's red half will hope to avoid another echo of the 1980s at Goodison Park today.

It took some machinations to bring Niedermayer to New Jersey.

Farmer said he never contemplated any machinations to keep Milbrett.

b) Robert Mugabe's ongoing machinations to fix the forthcoming election in Zimbabwe?

That her machinations to marry off her daughters all work out?

But Mr. Bernanke doesn't have to wait for democratic machinations to play themselves out.

She goes through elaborate machinations to get them if she runs out while away on a summer job.