Sentences with phrase «machinations involving»

There's also machinations involving corporations, robots, and the presumably strange characters who populate Farmer's off - world settlement, according to the game's description.

In short order, Quentin finds himself enmeshed in sinister machinations involving political agents, a female assassin, the corrupt Baltimore slave trade, and the lost secrets of Poe's final hours.

A full record of the machinations involved with the German Electors, with Francis I of France and Henry VIII of England and his ministers would themselves make a large book.

Professor Gilmore added: «The u-turn came just when the evidence for minimum pricing was getting stronger so there had to be some political machinations involved.

Machinations involved in the establishment of the UN agency include the restrictions created by the definition of climate change to «only those changes caused by humans» and the bureaucratic structure designed to prove that human CO2 was the problem.

Not exact matches

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....

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.

The machinations with Singh are a stain that involved other high - level town officials and the indictment of Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano, whose base of power is rooted in the town.

Luthor's machinations in the film are, essentially, nonsense (one of his dastardly plans involves a jar of piss), and they are largely unmotivated.

Too rote to be trash, it has to make do with being mere junk, impatiently exposing more incoherent machinations and more condo - board - like council meetings involving the dullest vampires in moviedom.

It starts off promisingly with some stylised and ridiculous heroics involving a German sub, but once the island has been occupied and a few excellent monsters vanquished, the plot settles down to some very ordinary machinations.

It is still zippy and enjoyable enough - with touchscreen mini-games for purifying and Soultimates - but strikes an awkward middle - ground where combat isn't involved enough for more experienced players, but is chaotic enough with its machinations to befuddle newcomers.

The plot involves the further machinations of main baddie Jeanine (not a terribly scary villain's name, is it), played with icy smoothness by Kate Winslet.

But whenever the movie, which is all too often, veers into backroom political machination mode, especially in the scenes involving LBJ or with George Wallace (Tim Roth), the movie's molten core cools and it loses its intimacy.

In a modern spin on «Heathers» and «Cruel Intentions» — though with more dark humor and tight directorial control than either — «Thoroughbred» follows their plan as it takes them to a reluctant hit man (a brilliantly slimy - jittery Anton Yelchin) and other self - involved machinations.

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.

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.

Beth also mentioned that coming out soon — coincidentally on the day my experiment was planned to start — is James R. Benn's novel The White Ghost, a historical mystery involving the Pacific theatre of WWII and Unilever machinations.

Who knows what other machinations he's thinking of, but we kind of hope none of them involve Pac - Man.

Becky Grajeda makes works of sound assemblage, multi-channel installation and performance frequently include field recordings of the sounds of machinations and moving bodies and / or in involve abstracting vocal inflection, intonation, and intended meaning in speech.

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

The reports were touted as national assessments that were supposedly independent of the IPCC and of each other, but of necessity were compiled with the assistance of, and in some cases at the behest of, many of the scientists involved in the IPCC international machinations.