Sentence examples for was stage-managed from inspiring English sources

It's a sign that the leader plays by the same rules as everyone else; you can't accuse him of stage management, unless his straying into the red was stage-managed.

But, if the arrest was stage-managed, the plan backfired.

Well, he says, "we were warmly received, but everything was stage-managed.

UNDER Tony Blair's leadership, much of the fun was stage-managed out of Labour Party conferences.

The whole thing was stage-managed by Qassim Suleimani, the shadowy commander who runs external operations for Iran's Revolutionary Guards.

A report in the Los Angeles Times in 2004 suggested that the toppling of the statue was stage-managed.

Since then, however, it has become clear that Medvedev is not the liberal reformer that some had hoped but part of Russia's managed democracy construct, in which elections are stage-managed and dissent swiftly squashed.

The Kremlin called it "managed democracy", and at times it has appeared to be stage-managed by Vladimir Putin himself.

Fifty years ago, private lives could be stage-managed with immaculate choreography.

All the best sex scandals are stage-managed by Clifford.

But these hearings have been stage-managed affairs.