The topical five-part series, Ballot Monkeys, will follow in the footsteps of successful political satires such as The Thick of It, focusing on the frenetic scheming and machinations of a group of managers, press officers, strategists and spin doctors on the campaign trail in the runup to polling day.
The Port Authority has been mired in scandal since at least 2013, when the Fort Lee lane-closing scheme exposed political machinations by appointees of New Jersey's then-governor, Chris Christie.
Brigadier-General James M. Gavin recalled that when he travelled to England in November 1943, Ridgway "cautioned me against the machinations and scheming of General F. M. Browning, who was the senior British airborne officer, and well he should have".
On the one hand, citizens shouldn't be subject to the machinations of scheming city officials who spend most of their time figuring out how to raid the public coffers.
It was fighting only "the machinations and schemes of the old Colonization Society and their leaders and abettors".
And it's been propped up by [owner and CEO Eddie] Lampert through an ongoing variety of unconventional machinations and schemes.
I never liked lawyers as a class and to keep away from them and steer clear of their inveigling schemes and grasping machination -- ever an active ingredient in their diabolical profession -- has been my constant life-long effort...
-- John Aylett, 1781 I never liked lawyers as a class and to keep away from them and steer clear of their inveigling schemes and grasping machination -- ever an active ingredient in their diabolical profession -- has been my constant life-long effort...
We want the major to survive the machinations of his scheming relatives — and he does.
The likes of Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, Humphrey Bogart and Sinatra have all sipped and supped there, and it's the perfect setting for Clooney and Pitt to discuss the machinations of their heist scheme.
Although his empire started only a few years after Ponzi's scheme imploded, Partnoy calculates that Kreuger's machinations lasted ten times longer and involved sums fifty times larger.
