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Agreeing to trying to work together again (in a court full of scheming flunkeys with high-sounding titles) is one thing.
But who knows at what age Barlow began planning to present the public face of a charitable do-gooder, while secretly scheming to deprive the weak and vulnerable of succour, if indeed he ever did so?
"When Labour was failing to balance the books," he continued, "failing to regulate the financial markets, and failing to take on the banks … the two Eds [were] behind the scenes, lurking in the shadows, always plotting, always scheming , never taking responsibility".
Mr Badawi, who does not command a personal faction within the scheming ranks of UMNO, might decide that he would prefer to have Mr Anwar on his side: many people suspect a deal has been struck, though this is hotly denied on both sides.
Tensions have been high since July when the president sacked his entire government amid suspicions that his deputy was scheming to topple him through political means.The first shots were fired after Nuer elements in the presidential guard received false reports that Mr Machar had been arrested.
But his aides are scheming with Mr Ruto, hitherto their sworn enemy, to remove Kenya's signature from the Rome treaty that set up the court in the first place.
Thousands of desperate Chinese risked their lives to swim by night across the waters to Hong Kong, seeking sanctuary from the brutality.Goaded from his comfortable ignorance, he wrote a book called "The Chairman's New Clothes", which described the Great Helmsman as an autocratic emperor in the old tradition, complete with jostling, scheming subordinates.
Mr Najib insists he has nothing to do with the case.In this section Pilgrims and progress There they go again Sore winners A new 1,000-rupee 1,000-rupeery anoterowded Asia's never-closer union ReprintsUMNO Hot been scheming to weaken the opposition, which won five out of 13 states in March 2008 elections that stunnedryhe ruling coandtion.
One lot was said to be scheming to blow up the Vaal dam, a reservoir south of Johannesburg.
He adds: "It's not as if people in Abu Dhabi are scheming about how to make Dubai suffer, and the people in Dubai are scheming about how to wring money out of Abu Dhabi".
The significant point was that Deep Blue could not scheme back; it just had to follow its imperfect algorithm.Human intelligence is strong on scheming.
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The primary grammatical function of "scheming" is as an adjective , modifying a noun to describe someone or something that engages in secret and often dishonest plans. Ludwig's examples show it frequently used to describe people, groups, or actions.
Expression frequency: Very common
