Sentences with phrase «machinations at»

While sections devoted to intricate surgeries (the descriptions will not make you queasy) are intriguing and informative, ones devoted to the internal machinations at the medical colleges are less so.

In such a world, Anne's machinations at least offer up a kind of poetic justice.

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

The complicated romance that punctuates the story adds spice (and a twist), but it's a film essentially about the banking family and their machinations at a time of rapid change in China

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.

The best piece I've seen so far on the latest machinations comes from Ellen Huet at Bloomberg, who has uncovered how Chahal's shady behavior extended to the boardroom — including his creation of a fictional employee named Christian Gray (nope, he has zero self - awareness) that came complete with his own LinkedIn profile.

Atheism at it machinations that are derisive, divisive, distracting, and malicious.

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.

Edwards, a professor at Catholic University and a Senior Fellow of the Heritage Foundation, has written a spirited history of the nuts «and «bolts political machinations that dragged American politics to the right.

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.

Officially, Cuomo was keeping his distance from the Senate leadership machinations, referring to the jockeying at the time as an «internal power struggle» that the governor had no business getting involved in.

Legislators consider Degnan to be their last bulwark at the Port Authority against Cuomo's machinations, and their best hope for a new bus terminal to serve New Jersey commuters.

At no time in Ghana's political history has any aspirant done what he is doing, whipping up religious sentiments as if God has blessed him to become Ghana's President but the machinations of human beings detract from it all.

Glenwood's machinations were at the center of the trials of Skelos as well as ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who was convicted in a separate trial in late November.

«The more people talk about Tish, they're not so much talking about her qualifications but what it would mean for all the other political machinations for downstate,» Christina Greer, associate professor of political science at Fordham University, told POLITICO.

-LSB-...] Michael Riconda has a write up over at the Rockland County Times on the internecine machinations cur... -LSB-...]

«If the people truly symbolises what a party is, then the machination of our detractors and the anti-democratic organs will not prevail at last.

Laymen may either look askance at these judicial machinations or ignore them entirely, that is, until they appear in court before one of the judges this backroom 19th - century process produces.

But astronomers still need many more nights at the telescope to know it's not just the machinations of a violent star.

Robin and his men protected England from the evil machinations of Prince John while good King Richard was away at the Crusades

By focusing on the internal machinations of Catesby and his Protestant antagonists, Gunpowder locates a human drama at the heart of an event codified in history books as a conflict between monoliths.

The confusion internal to Steamboy's machinations is located somewhere between the idea of wonder on the one hand and a sort of Nobel, what hath we wrought discomfort on the other — its message of «war is bad» muddied by the Japanese, who suffered pretty terribly at the hands of weapons technology, and the British, who didn't.

There's a conversation, a serious one, to be had about fracking, about the machinations of energy corporations, about capitalism — but it's rich that these wealthy white guys think the best way to go about inspiring debate is by presenting straw men at play in the heart of hicksploitation U.S.A..

While making routine patrol stops, or at least routine for the area, the two stumble upon the machinations of a major drug cartel that is gaining a foothold in the United States, an event that will have ramifications that they can't begin to imagine.

Note: some writers are better at plot machinations.

He's trying to keep control of the machinations of his exec (Tony Curtis), a social - climbing hustler who wants to get back to the admiral's staff at Pearl Harbor, and he's dealing with five Navy nurses who've been stranded on his sub.

At 2 hours and 20 minutes, the simplicity of the story is lost while the modern story machinations come across as unnecessary padding.

The screenplay by Ellen Brown Furman hints at the political machinations behind the operation and the personal toll of such clandestine work, but the thrust of the narrative is the investigation itself.

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.

When Elena elicits the fascination of a famous general, she finds herself at the center of romantic machinations and political scheming, with the hearts of several men — as well as the future of France — in her hands.

The machinations of the plot are loud and fairly clumsy, with unanswered questions and conveniences that serve the screenwriter but not the story (the growing romance between Neale and Carla feels particularly strained, despite good performances by both Milland and Reynolds), yet Lang molds it into something that is consistently entertaining and at times genuinely enthralling.

The kids are ultimately just the side story, however; it's the behind - the - scenes machinations of Whitford and his cabal that peak our curiosity while generating the movie's wink - wink, nudge - nudge digs at all things horror movie - related, like some sort of deranged Greek chorus.

Synopsis: An examination of the machinations behind the scenes at a real estate office.

If this sounds dumb, clichéd, and assembled from the cheapest types of machinations, at least keep in mind that most of them do not occur or become noticeable until the movie's maddening final act.

Plot machinations — a rogue journalism student, government conspiracies, equally threatening new friends — drive Frank back through Willamette at a fast clip.

Bahrani's style is gripping as an emotional thriller, at times reminiscent of Asghar Farhadi, but the best scenes involve the sneaky legal maneuverings and machinations of Rick's get - rich - quick scheme.

Consumed by the machinations of his daily life — taking a shower, tweezing those eyebrows, spending long hours at the office working for his father - in - law Phil (Chris Cooper)-- Davis is trapped by his financial success.

Spielberg and his screenwriting team relish conveying the machinations that went into the deal - making, demonstrating how uneasy political times led to finessed, chesslike maneuvering to retrieve spies in an intense trade - off at Glienicke Bridge in 1962.

Wright and Pegg astutely ground their wistfulness in middle - age malaise, and smartly furnish their machinations in a statement about inevitable change and unwelcome homogenisation, in a narrative sense, at least.

(Maybe we can get the FBI to have a look - see at California's legislative machinations.)

Hopefully, some students might even work on a campaign or run for office in the future, or at the very least gain an insight into and respect for the machinations of government that affect all American lives.

Worse is the behind the scenes machination of Mulgrew, and at his behest and control NYSUT, and the manipulation and dirty dealing on behalf of Governor Andy!

Don't try to make sense of these machinations, but basically because Maserati and Chrysler Co. fall under Fiat's corporate umbrella, the production version the Kubang will be built in Detroit at the same factory and on the -LSB-...]

There's no end to the bodystyle machinations possible these days - and Land Rover is taking full advantage of the public's insatiable appetite for peacocking by launching its new Range Rover SV Coupe at the 2018 Geneva motor show.

Don't try to make sense of these machinations, but basically because Maserati and Chrysler Co. fall under Fiat's corporate umbrella, the production version the Kubang will be built in Detroit at the same factory and on the same platform as the Jeep Grand Cherokee and Dodge Durango (which was originally from Mercedes - Benz...).

The ease at which this 5m long juggernaut can hustle itself into barely perceptible gaps in traffic is breath - taking, with very few legal machinations requiring more than half throttle at most.

As adept with Jamaican vernacular as she is at revealing the internal machinations of a fading and bloated matinee idol, Margaret Cezair - Thompson weaves a saga of a mother and daughter finding their way in a nation struggling to rise to the challenge of independence.