Sentences with phrase «such machinations»

Such machinations may be designed with good intentions, but they just further convolute the marketplace, says Turbeville, a former investment banker at Goldman Sachs.

And if there are any such machinations in the offing, then the Lib Dem leader may have just thrown a slight spanner in the works...

In the era of Occupy Wall Street, such machinations made Cuomo Democratic Public Enemy No. 1.

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 machinations of Japan's new industrial and military leaders which caused such suffering and deprivations among the rural masses, were now beautified as the «wish» of the imperial ancestors.9

As such he was in a position to know many off FIFA's machinations.

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.

«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.»

::: SPOILER::: In a subplot, one of these manipulative girls» machinations causes such trauma for one of Zack's colleagues that he tops himself.

Colors run either neon hot, like the yellows, reds, and blues, or cool and soft, such as the browns that dominate the hero's apartment, which is, until the third act, a safe spot away from the killer's machinations.

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.

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

Named as such for the box he wears, Eggs knows little of the world above, but must learn quickly when the machinations of an exterminator named Snatcher (voiced like a sewage - y river by Ben Kingsley) with upward mobility on his mind threaten the very lives of his adopted family of «monsters.»

The film's tiresome tale of two brothers whose criminal past is resurrected not through societal determinations outside their control, but the creaky machinations of a screenplay that insists bad turn to worse as a fundamental law, predictably lurches toward acts of extreme violence with little interest other than the instant titillation such moments afford.

Some of the plot machinations of «The Shape of Water,» such as the Cold War intrigue and Shannon's cartoonish villain, don't live up to the magic Hawkins and Jones conjure in their scenes together.

It's also hard not to be a little cynical about the obvious corporate machinations of «Civil War,» such as the introduction of Spider - Man (Tom Holland) and Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman)- two characters who we already know are getting their own movies.

A democracy can not function or endure under such cynical chicanery and abusive machinations.

There were rumours that Microsoft was being pressured by powerful third - party publishers such as Electronic Arts to include restrictive DRM in the XBox One infrastructure, thereby protecting retail revenues — but recently, Peter Moore, EA's chief operating officer has sought to distance the company from Microsoft's apparent machinations.

Indeed, with her adeptness at luring viewers with captivating (and seemingly innocuous) hand - painted illustrations, humorous texts, and sheer scale and then surprising them with content that is remarkably honest — by turns subversively friendly or bitingly critical and addressing such fraught subjects as power dynamics, social marginalization, and even the machinations of the art world — she has smartly aligned herself with the enduring and boundary - pushing strategies of satire, parody, and caricature.

An unlikely version of a Cindy Sherman, Untitled (In NYC I Saw Some Paintings...)(1996) or a bestial version of a Robert Rauschenberg such as his I Dreamed I Slept with the Devil (1988), which are loaded with the spooky machinations of his subconscious, are par for the course.