They call her smart and tireless, but they are wary because her political career has been sponsored by the machine led by George Norcross, South Jersey's most powerful Democrat.
Mr. Sires began fighting the local machine led by Mayor Anthony M. DeFino, and was on a slate of candidates that failed to unseat Mr. DeFino in 1983.
Blaise Pascal's attempt to produce a perpetual motion machine led to the creation of the first roulette wheel in the 17th century.
Shonda Rhimes's ShondaLand empire was a ratings machine, led by "Scandal," the first network drama since 1974 to star a black woman.
Many of Nast's most effective cartoons, such as his "Tammany Tiger Loose" and "Group of Vultures Waiting for the Storm to Blow Over" (both 1871), were virulent attacks on New York's Tammany Hall political machine led by "Boss" Tweed.
His impressive building of a good constituency machine led to him increasing his majority in 2010 to over 12,000, and that is one of the reasons I decided to back him for leader.
The challenge of the best way to mate man and machine led Airbus Industrie and the Boeing Company, the only two makers of large passenger jetliners, to adopt different philosophies when they designed the cockpits of their latest airplanes.
Mr. McCall, they said, was the last best effort of the Harlem political machine, led by Representative Charles B. Rangel, and with his loss, old alignments loosened, providing more room for relative newcomers with an entrepreneurial bent.
Most every day, Mr. Davis's wife, Sharon, appears somewhere in the state to complain about the Republican "lie-producing machine," led by Mr. Schwarzenegger, that the Davis campaign says has set its sights on him.
The Intel chip gives the Surface Pro an advantage, one that, in my tryout of the machine, led me to use it much more as a laptop-like computer than a tablet.
Memphis was also a problem, dominated by an old political machine led by E. H. (Boss) Crump and a mayor, James Pleasants, who argued that "jostling" in the line was a form of unhealthy contact between the races.
