Sentence examples for those machinations from inspiring English sources

Those machinations were the subject of a lengthy Letter from London by Julian Barnes in 1991.

Roberts did not know Valentine rarely visits the mound, preferring to leave those machinations to his pitching coach.

Snowden was unaware of the hidden machinations inside the Pentagon that undid Drake, but the outcome of those machinations – Drake's arrest, indictment and persecution – sent an unmistakable message: raising concerns within the system promised doom.

"The conflict between the Whigs and the Tories was there, but it was much more about influence and personality than party loyalty and the queen had an impact on those machinations.

Birtwistle's obsession with Greek myth and tragedy, as exemplified in his operas, The Mask of Orpheus and The Minotaur, reflects our eternal tussle with the tragi-comedy of life, so certainly brief and yet so vulnerable to human foibles - those machinations, glorious and ludicrous, that cause the gods to tumble from their clouds with mirth.

But its brilliance lies, not in those machinations, but in its nature as a living document, a slowly shifting piece that could always adapt, and would never die. Britt Julious.

"Its survival, however, depends on some of those same machinations.

Those backroom machinations can, and often do, make or break deals like this, and the real calculus behind key votes is often not visible to the public.

All of those brilliant machinations on Roman's behalf, and she still didn't anticipate that Joey would murder him in a grieving rage.

It's the machinations of those stupid Americans.

Many Yalies, including Mr. Bush, sneered at the machinations of those political wannabes, but not Mr. Kerry.