Sentences with phrase «in machinations»

Also, there are U.S. taxpayer - funded offices and individuals involved in the machinations addressed in the emails, and in the emails themselves.

A committee convened by the InterAcademy Council, the association of the world's leading national science academies, delivered a long to - do list to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on Monday, including steps ranging from limiting the term and policy recommendations of its leadership to fostering more transparency in its machinations and being more careful to describe the science determining the strength, or weakness, of particular conclusions.

Rich in history and atmosphere, Ham was largely the vision of Elizabeth Murray, the Duchess of Lauderdale (later the Countess of Dysart), who played an important role in the machinations of the English Civil War and later the restoration of the monarchy.

Wisely, the writers of Hacker's Memory take the latter route, spinning a more character - driven story that doesn't get too wrapped up in the machinations of its predecessor.

Abrim with picaresque adventures — escapades that carry Jennet from King William's Britain to the fledgling American Colonies to an uncharted Caribbean island — our heroine's search for justice entangles her variously in the machinations of the Salem Witch Court, the customs of her Algonquin Indian captors, the designs of a West Indies pirate band, and the bedsheets of her brilliant lover, the young Ben Franklin.

In Locus Hardcover Bestsellers Arachne and Cyberweb, by Philip K. Dick Award Finalist Lisa Mason, telelinker Carly Quester confronts an A.I. therapist and finds herself entangled in the machinations of powerful A.I. entities.

Angel Face Otto Preminger, USA, 1953, 35 mm, 91m Robert Mitchum finds himself caught up in the machinations of a femme fatale in Preminger's seminal noir.

It's at first at coy device, though it becomes less so as the series goes in its machinations from D.C. abstracts to grounded details, ones involving the Teachers Union, a powerful oil lobbyist and former colleague named Remy (Mahershala Ali), Claire's water nonprofit and an ambitious blogger named Zoe Barnes (Kate Mara) who develops a mutually beneficial relationship with Underwood.

Lee finds himself caught in the machinations of talking bugs, talking anuses, bugs with talking anuses, typewriters that turn into bugs with talking anuses and for some inexplicable reason, Roy Scheider.

The action centers on an English couple (Ewan McGregor and Naomie Harris) vacationing in Spain who become caught up in the machinations of a Russian oligarch (Stellan Skarsgard) planning to defect.

The president, however, is but a pawn in the machinations of cunning EPA chief Russ Cargill (voiced by Brooks).

Synopsis & Cast: A politically ambitious New York cardinal becomes embroiled in machinations at the heart of the Catholic Church.

There are fresh reports that senior Conservative MPs are conspiring in the machinations against Dominic Cummings, the former special adviser to Michael Gove who heads up Vote Leave.

The plight of the central cities and the reasons for the flight of Jews and others, whites and middle - class blacks alike, can not be found in the machinations of bankers and politicians.

Here fate shows itself in the machinations of a state that condemns some to die and others to kill them; each of those present is profoundly innocent of what he is called upon to do.

Not exact matches

When prime - time hosts — who have never served our country in any capacity — dismiss facts and empirical reality to launch profoundly dishonest assaults on the FBI, the Justice Department, the courts, the intelligence community (in which I served) and, not least, a model public servant and genuine war hero such as Robert Mueller — all the while scaremongering with lurid warnings of «deep - state» machinations — I can not be part of the same organization, even at a remove.

In a Twitter discussion with Intercept founder Glenn Greenwald, Tufekci argued that these mass leaks often contain internal machinations and gossip from within a campaign, which might be interesting from a historical context, but don't really have any larger news or social value.

Executives taking their company public might think the proceedings are all about them; in fact, they could be said to have little more than a bit part in a much larger set of machinations.

The machinations led to auditor general Bonnie Lysyk criticizing Premier Kathleen Wynne's government for «high - risk» bailout of MaRS in her 2014 annual report.

Bitcoin's volatility has risen again since, with jumpy Bitcoin prices attributable to the summer's machinations in Greece and Bitcoin's «blocksize» debate.

Today's report is one of the first to shed light on the machinations taking place in the shadows: a sketchy digital economy where fake accounts known as bots, some modeled on real users, are bought and sold — the lifeblood of a booming trade in influence and deception.

The second half of this Keiser Report covers this latest machination in the world of financial crime.

It just dumbs you down to believing in other fantasies and machinations.

But now the Church will have its revenge: through the machinations of the Pope, official Catholicism has forged a tactical alliance with Islamic fundamentalism in order to roll back, and then rout, the Enlightenment heritage.

Bonhoeffer's early and consistent resistance to the intrusion of Nazi ecclesial, political and military machinations is well known: his bold involvement in the Confessing Church, his directorship of the underground seminary community at Finkenwalde (from which time we have his book Life Together), his summons to costly discipleship, the increasing repression of the mid-1930s and his decision to return to Germany in 1939 (although he had the opportunity to become an exile in the United States).

I had been born in the faith, raised in the faith and taught to not even look at other faiths for they were all machinations of the devil.

It will be interesting, at the end of the process of disbursing this money, to learn just how many Jewish dormant accounts actually exist, and in how many cases identifiable heirs were actually denied access to their money because of Swiss machinations.

Indeed, in many ways he took his stand, and encouraged others to take their stand, over against politics — especially politics as dominated by the machinations of the modern State.

Zarathustra looks forward to the time when men themselves will be godlike, blissfully innocent in the creative sport of becoming existence, freely marching to their own individual wills, seeking a community based on individual differences, and enjoying the vicissitudes and machinations of human life, including the spirit of gravity, in good cheer (TSZ 215).

Some Ukrainian Catholic and Kyivan Patriarchate leaders see nothing in the Russian Orthodox Church but corruption and political machinations.

Nietzsche claims that modern man, through the machinations of will to power, has in fact become unhinged.

It's not far off to say that The Young Pope is essentially House of Cards set in Vatican City, as its main focus seems to be shedding a light on unsavory machinations that most people, let alone Catholics, are aware of.

The purpose of our Armed Forces is not about building churches and stomping around according to their manipulative and subversive machinations behind the scenes using simple mind - control techniques against our own military's usage of mind - control in training.

We should not become obsessed in exposing the distortions arising from the Synod or the machinations behind the Synod, nor become unduly distressed by the likely consequences.

Satan and his devils are familiar personages in the New Testament and to their machinations is ascribed every manner of human affliction, great and small.

This recognition of the politicised nature of identity will be of assistance in the attempt to understand the characteristic of the hyphen as something which is not isolated but as an entity which has the power to draw together elements which come from the living past, while being informed about the machinations of the present, and anticipating an uncertain future.

But, by the test of the special thread, Jean Porter's sophisticated historical argument in Natural and Divine Law resembles the clever machinations of modern counterfeiters.

By the machinations of this anarchic and arbitrary spirit, for a time wholly in command of the executive power, the strongest bulwark of any government, and particularly of those constituted like ours, may effectually be broken down and destroyed — I mean the attachment of the people.

The amazing advances in molecular biology blur the traditional hierarchical distinctions between man, animal, plant and mineral; and the neurophysiological «explanation» of human consciousness in terms of the components and machinations of the brain even more dramatically illustrates how pure «matter» has assumed dominance in any attempt to make sense of our universe and its manifestations.

Throughout his book, Brogan provides a riveting account of the events in France before and after the revolution, the manner in which Tocqueville's family and friends responded to those events, and the psychological machinations within Tocqueville himself as he faced the agonizing transformation of his beloved France.

«INASMUCH (1) as certain men have set the truth aside, and bring in lying words and vain genealogies, which, as the apostle says, (2) «minister questions rather than godly edifying which is in faith,» and by means of their craftily - constructed plausibilities draw away the minds of the inexperienced and take them captive, [I have felt constrained, my dear friend, to compose the following treatise in order to expose and counteract their machinations.]

For as the Catholic teacher (doctor) and especially the priest of the Lord, ought to be involved in no error, so ought he to be wronged by no machination or passion....

Julie Finn I'm a writer, crafter, Zombie Preparedness Planner, and homeschooling momma of two kids who will hopefully someday transition into using their genius for good, not the evil machinations and mess - making in which they currently indulge.

I hope in my lifetime the NFL ceases to exist - not because they took my team away, but that process definitely opened my eyes to the creepy machinations of the league and allowed me to critically see all the complete shit they are able to get away with.

The Dutch coach has overseen a fine run of results, cumulating in a 1 - 0 victory over Arsenal on Sunday, but the machinations continue at Stamford Bridge as the Pensioners seek out a long - term successor for Mourinho, and look to identify the ideal candidate to replace Hiddink at the season's end.

He also faced the machinations — in the coach's mind, at least — of his boss, Frank Broyles.

As such he was in a position to know many off FIFA's machinations.

I'm fed up with Theo's machinations and frankly if he goes it may prompt a whole new flurry of significant new players heading in different directions.

In order to understand why betting against the public is an effective strategy, it's crucial to understand the machinations of a sportsbook.

«Democrat infighting, and the machinations being made by Senator Stewart - Cousins and Senator Gianaris about who would be in charge of a hypothetical Democrat Senate, are academic,» he said.