Sentences with phrase «own machinations»

As he showed with his years - long legal stalking of Gawker Media, Thiel is perfectly happy keeping his machinations hidden from view, and acting through proxies.

The machinations may explain why the company's well - regarded head of mobile chips, Aicha Evans, reportedly tendered her resignation last month, only to change her mind after Krzanich made a full court press to keep her.

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.

Once those machinations were done, there was less drag on the processor.

While these financial machinations are pleasing short - term traders, the loser will be America's superior research machine.

One group of VC folks paying very close attention to the market machinations are CFOs, since they're the ones who have to send out quarterly reports to limited partners (plus audited annual financials).

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 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.

It wasn't just her arch-sounding speeches to Wall Street executives or the exposure of political machinations but also the brutal stripping of so many staffers» privacy.

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.

The CEO of home good eCommerce up - and - comer Wayfair.com is shrugging off the recent machinations of short - sellers that have made the company their new...

According to a new report from DigiTimes, which often posts accurate information about smartphone supply chain machinations, wireless chip vendor MediaTek had been «optimistic that its gross margin and revenues would pick up drastically during the second quarter of 2018.»

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.

After the recent stock market crash, Batra claims that Greenspan went back to his old machinations to create even more debt.

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.

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

Except that, for all its machinations, Eastwood's movie doesn't devalue human life, as some would think; rather, it speaks to humanity's inherent value.

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.

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.

Also, if they (the 6) are innocent and mere victims of a Narcissist machinations, then I do and DID apologize both publicly and privately.

And don't even mention the sheer labor that comes with behind the scenes machinations, of attempts to silence and shut down.

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.

I'm very glad that the Belief Blog netizens have opened my eyes to The Truth behind science's evil machinations and the global conspiracy of misinformation.

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.

Also, you don't need the machinations of an evil cabal to wind up with two holidays sharing the same date.

The Weavers gradually absorbed not only the racist religious doctrines of Christian Identity, but became familiar with the world of UFOs and alien intelligences, the supposed machinations of the Bilderbergers and the Illuminati and, most of all, the alleged conspiracies of those who were said to be the literal offspring of Satan, the Jews.

He cries out for deliverance from the machinations of a devil incarnate as a funding expert.

And those who will do anything to protect their limited third - chakra 3D view of the world are gullible too, to the extent that they believe the machinations of the self - perpetuating ego.

I am well aware that these decrees have been adopted under German pressure and through the machinations of Laval.

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.

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 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).

Cardinal Wolsey was no advertisement for the Church, but the machinations of someone like Thomas Cromwell leave a bad taste.

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.

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.

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 plot thickens through the violent machinations of an albino monk who works for Opus Dei, an actual Roman Catholic organization portrayed by Brown with lightly veiled contempt.