Sentences with phrase «machinations take»

Political intrigue and backdoor machinations take the lead in the first act before expanding out to include crystals, divine beings and the fate of mankind.

Most of our mental machinations take place pre-consciously, with the results dropping into our conscious minds only after they have been decided elsewhere in the brain.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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 last major Canaanite (Jebusite) city - fortress, Jerusalem, is taken (5:6 - 10) and the Philistines, asleep on their feet or successfully lulled by the political charm and machinations of David, suddenly come to (5:17 - 22).

«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.]

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.

Take a break from the scoundrels and their machinations, it will all catch up with them.

Our feminist machinations finally take root!

Both candidates taking part in the second round of the election should steadfastly refuse to participate in any such political machination and stand in defense of the popular will of Liberians.

It took for the Labour Party's extraordinary machinations in Falkirk for the revelations about Unite and Len McCluskey's domination to come to life.

For those who have been keeping up to date with the inner machinations of the controversial administration, it is concurrently unsurprising that Tillerson has met this fate, and surprising that it has taken this long.

The idea of cooperating with the SNP is dismissed in horror perhaps because Labour's appalling performance in Scotland is seen as a result of their wicked machinations rather than the fact that Labour took the Scots for granted and failed to maintain its political profile in Scotland.

«Jeremy and his team will continue to enjoy my full support from the back - benches in taking on this uncaring and brutal Tory government - but we need to urgently recognise and re-affirm as a Labour Party that the national security and defence of our country in such a volatile world, is a red line and a matter that should and must transcend party politics, let alone the internal machinations of our own party or personal score - settling.»

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has borne the brunt of Cuomo's machinations since he took office in 2014, and political operatives have noted that the governor's relations with Schneiderman and DiNapoli improved as Cuomo focuses his attention on the mayor.

More remarkable, if true, is the fact that the sewer machinations continued even after the former New York Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, was charged in January with taking bribes disguised as fees.

Research grants to individual scientists, traditionally kept safe from high - level budget machinations, have taken a 15 percent hit, retroactive to last fall; hundreds have already received «termination letters» canceling their projects.

Aside from the shadowy machinations of the characters, the detail with which Pavone paints the city of Luxembourg (he lived there himself when his wife took a job abroad) is captivating and makes the novel's nail - biting moments even more compelling:

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.

But the documentary points up what is flagrantly wrongheaded about «Taking Woodstock,» where the machinations of the producers and promoters lack any real bite or guile; the cavorters descending on the scene are without exception sweet - souled; and the acid trips, including Elliot's, are fun - house frolics.

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.

Particularly entertaining is Minnie Driver's deliciously hammy turn as Carlotta, the Opera Populaire's resident diva whose star takes a tumble thanks to Christine's rising star and the Phantom's machinations; credit also must go to Margaret Preece, who provides Carlotta's amusingly overblown, ear - piercing vocals.

The rest of the film though, is a towering and mesmerising take on the machinations and intrigue of political power.

First with the machinations of talking the rube with the car in question into letting them take it out alone, and second, when Stuntman Mike with a different car, but the same hood ornament, shows up to make this a day the ladies will never forget.

The plot machinations of the early going do feel like just that as so many things seem to magically fall into place for DJay's transformation — the keyboard; a spontaneous run - in with Key (Anthony Anderson), an old acquaintance and sound engineer who then takes him to a soul - stirring church choir performance — in an almost implausibly pat manner.

In The Post, we see the story behind the story — the machinations of decision - making, loyalties to old friends, journalistic responsibility, tradition and risk - taking, and how they play in deciding whether to pick up where The Times» was forced to leave off, and pursue the story.

The story takes place, as mentioned, in Elizabethan England and follows the intrigue and political machinations surrounding the succession of Elizabeth I. However, parallel to this, is the story of the birth of modern theatre.

Although it was hard to imagine that Howard, the man who'd wielded the obscenely sentimental sledgehammer of A Beautiful Mind and the filmmaker who brought us the just - plain - wrong live - action adaptation of Dr. Seuss» How the Grinch Stole Christmas was the right man to take on this story of political and journalistic machinations and clashing personalities.

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.

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.

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.

Starting with the death of a high - profile celeb in the club scene, the book takes us through the machinations that lead to his murder and has a great surprise twist in the ending.

Although this particular narrative provides an intriguing look into the dark machinations of the competitive riding world, the choice to give the horse its own first - person narrative — a concept that worked in Anna Sewell's classic, Black Beauty, but not much else — perhaps takes the idea a bit too far.

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.

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.

Legend mode is a story - based campaign that takes players across a variety of large - scale maps, telling a story that sees the worlds of Ocarina of Time, Twilight Princess, and Skyward Sword collide due to the machinations of evil sorceress Cia.

Also taking up the theme of art - world machinations and values is Oslo 8 — 22 — 04, 2006, a painting based on a still from the security - camera video of the 2004 theft of Edvard Munch's The Scream,

The biggest news stories, from White House machinations, gun violence, and immigration to the fate of Confederate monuments, racial division, and sexual harassment and assault revelations, directly affected some institutions, were reflected in the work of artists, and prompted many to take action through open letters, protests, and special campaigns and projects.

From large - scale collaborative civil disobedience actions taking place on the streets, to the slow dissemination of PublicAccess sculptures which happen to open bus shelters around the world, to a gallery practice that illuminates the inner machinations of advertising content and persuasion, Seiler's practice attempts to challenge the commercial discourse that monopolizes public space while cultivating engaged citizenship.

It took the now - famous Wikileaks «Climategate» to pry loose the data and expose their machinations.

Hansen was central to the deception about global warming when he took it from behind the scenes of the UN bureaucratic machinations into the political, public, and mainstream media spotlight.

But now we're watching, so it only took a week or so for his machinations to be exposed.

The Obama administration, meanwhile, perhaps taking its cue from Beijing, has also been using «executive» machinations to shut down coal - fired energy production.

But what has taken place since is no return to sanity, as political machinations have produced a cosmetic makeover called «PASS ID» that has revived the push for a national identification card.