Sentence examples for whose machinations from inspiring English sources
On a visit to the city of Regensburg to see his ailing sister, Kuisl falls victim to an old enemy whose machinations lead to some rousing action.
And Chinese schoolchildren can readily recite the crimes of Empress Dowager Cixi, who is portrayed as a rapacious, homicidal leader whose machinations helped topple the Qing dynasty.
The area's storied past has included such colorful characters as the political boss Frank Hague, whose machinations made area politics as byzantine as its boundary lines are serpentine.
For some, such as Emma Greenwell's Catherine Vernon, Lady Susan is "a genius… diabolically so", whose machinations must be halted at all costs.
The group of reform Democrats was dedicated to breaking the political influence of Tammany Hall, whose machinations Mr. Feldman analyzed trenchantly in an influential article, "How Tammany Holds Power," published in the journal National Municipal Review in 1950.
But this casual Cuomo belied a more calculating one, whose machinations came out last year when storm briefings became a proxy for a turf war between city and state.
His main antagonists had previously been Philadelphia's party bosses, whose sordid machinations were extensively reported in Welsh's earnest upstart weekly, City and State.
He was one of the key salesmen of New Labour, a Westminster wheeler-dealer whose backstage machinations and silver tongue saw him nicknamed Britain's svengali of spin.
Mirco Palazzi made an insidiously attractive Assur, and Gianluca Buratto was outstanding as Oroe, the implacable priest, whose secret machinations provoke the dramatic crisis.
All are manipulated by Autolycus, who was once Florizel's aide and whose greedy machinations end up setting everyone on shipboard on their way back to Sicilia and resolution.
But Old Hickory, and democracy, proved no match for the tyrannical business minority of bankers, merchants, and strivers, whose capitalist machinations made the poor poorer; the middle-class smug, pious, and bourgeois; and the rich richer.
