Sentence examples for workings would be from inspiring English sources

If the SFA presses ahead with this legal threat, all manner of details relating to its inner workings would be revealed in a courtroom – it is about as likely to come to pass as McBride and the SFA's president, George Peat, exchanging Christmas cards.

For French jeweler Boucheron, who asked him to propose a design to celebrate its 150th anniversary, Mille came up with a predictably outrageous idea: 30 watches whose internal workings would be made from different precious stones.

I took a chance that Istanbul might be the place where the secret workings of history would be revealed.

In the Democratic House primary, our choices are incumbent Henry B. Heller, smart newcomer Roger Manno and B enjamin F. Kramer, whose knowledge of workings in Annapolis would be a plus.

Wall Street watchers hoped that the inner workings of Goldman Sachs would be on display during the insider trading trial of Rajat K. Gupta, which begins closing arguments on Wednesday.

Tillerson, for example, said Exxon prefers a carbon tax because its capital expenditures are made over decades, and he feared the cap-and-trade bureaucracy might become "a new Wall Street of energy" and whose year-to-year workings and evolution would be difficult to predict.

The emerging cross-disciplinary consensus on the workings of evolution would be known as the modern evolutionary synthesis.

Even the most minuscule insight into the workings of his mind would be the most enormous leap in understanding!

He said our questions showed we were "adopting a specific agenda" rather than being fair and balanced, and that a programme "explaining the workings of the EU" would be far more beneficial "than a tedious BBC hatchet job".

Who would have thought two years ago that one month of the internal workings of the Labour Party would be relevant enough for a round-up, let alone one week?

By definition, such an intelligence could not be understood by us, and its workings, by Clarke's Third Law, would be to us indistinguishable from magic.