Sentences with phrase «machinations over»

Shouldn't the Greenshirt global agenda of AGW be acknowledged in direct terms as he has only witnessed the growth and machinations over what 50 + years??

A few days ago, JCPenney introduced the commercial below, which basically apologizes to shoppers for the department store retailer's misguided machinations over the past two years.

What impact have the various policy machinations over the past generation had on today's students and teachers?

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Even without the spectacle of Canadian diplomats bending over backwards to drag the planet into the dark days of «1984,» George Orwell could have written a novel on Prime Minister Steven Harper's 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.

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.

Indeed, over the past decade foreigners and Afghans alike have bemoaned the slippery and self - interested machinations of Afghanistan's ruling class.

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

The brothers» tried and true trade concerns probing the internal and external machinations of their protagonists» lives, but here, we have the first instance in one of their films of plot taking centre stage over people.

It's 2008 and we're deep in the throes of the campaign season, already feeling the reverberations of the recession, and though Dominik's characters seem largely unaware of partisan politics, the machinations of the system can be felt all around them; wherever the action takes us, we're never far from a politician on the radio or on TV, the latter always lingered over suggestively.

David Cross (as Jacqueline's new fiancée) and Josh Charles (as his brother) get plenty of material about their internecine war over the future of the offensively monikered football team, but their machinations are too complex to be very funny.

The Saturday Night Live star's bouts of physical comedy — as well as pleasantly distracting cameos by the likes of Andy Richter, Kyle Gass, and The Station Agent's Peter Dinklage as a star children's author — spackle over the bland plot enough to keep Elf moving, until the film succumbs to overwrought third - act plot machinations.

The major changes over time that have occurred in these business machinations and changes in the registry holder has been the development of larger Olde English Bulldogges than its inventor's ideal.

Being a slave to historical accuracy, Deliverance will try to catch you up to speed with the political machinations of Lord This and King That and their fighting over Hard - to - Pronounce - Province There.

Taking place almost a millennium before the events of Skyrim, the main narrative of ESO consists of your character setting out to end the vile machinations of the Daedric Prince Molag Bal as well as to seize control of the imperial throne, which has been vied over by three different factions since the land's former leader vacated it.

Anyone up on the machinations of modernism and post-modernism is well aware of the consistent ascendancy of Picabia's reputation over the past three decades.

Next time you gnash your teeth over the bad rap lawyers get, consider this blog entry: In «Eternal Rationalizations of the Legal Mind,» The Wired GC rolls his eyes at the machinations of an attorney who hoarded a priceless piece of art for 28 years while he tried to get an award for returning it.

Having been in the legal business for 25 + years, I have long marveled at the machinations of lawyers over their billing rates.

I've seen numerous situations in which the cash value was minuscule relative to the death benefit, and the same machinations can be made to determine what is supportable over time.

Only those who think that they can control human nature via economic machinations from on high change, from true believers, to disenchanted, confused, former bureacrats as they mull over what went wrong with the world.