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But those political machinations are causing confusion around the world.
But even by FIDE standards, the current machinations are unusual.
Those machinations pale in comparison with Blackstone's latest financial wizardry.
The health care bill is tied up in Senate machinations.
Feel like leaking the shady machinations of some corrupt official?
He is a participant in the exchange of totalitarian machinations.
Meanwhile, Pyongyang's periodic machinations do not play to China's advantage.
She lost her beloved country house due to capitalist machinations.
At first, the machinations took place largely under the radar.
We've long understood the utterly banal machinations of bureaucratized human
That the machinations of Trump and Bannon will be rejected.
In spite of his machinations, the Fifth District elected Madison.
All of these machinations have handicappers already contemplating the possibilities.
Here be mythical creatures, political machinations, stormy seas and sunny shanties.
Those currency machinations did, in fact, give China a trade advantage.
So I think it's important to talk about the machinations here.
There's also a bunch of plotting and dark machinations going on.
And the most interesting part is the machinations of the business.
As political machinations go, Clinton's modus operandi is relatively garden variety.
On an electoral level, Cuomo's machinations have weakened the party further.
In an episode focused on domestic machinations, Richard is the homebreaker.
Betrayals are betrayed, boardroom machinations proliferate, monstrous conspiracies beget more monstrousness.
The political machinations, lying, and backstabbing are all so damn thrilling.
Indeed, he may understand the machinations of the media better than anyone.
Zombies takes the romantic machinations as seriously as the zombie threat. This
With that in mind, let's get into some of the specific machinations.
The machinations that led to that bill's failure are worth revisiting now.
Enron had been courting collapse for years with its audacious, criminal machinations.
They're more populist, and more suspicious of the machinations of big business.
I learned a lot though about the machinations in the White House.
Ronnie recognizes her dad's mobster-drug lord machinations have gone too far.
The machinations of the entire experience are not lost on the players.
There are fewer morality questions, but the underlying machinations are the same.
Regardless of the political machinations, some legislators were openly eager for raises.
That almost assuredly won't happen, but the machinations were not futile, either.
She had a crisp comprehension of the political machinations of our time.
The story is an uninteresting thicket of brawls, machinations and useful coincidences.
That said, it's full of talky sequences, political machinations, and slow, thoughtful moments.
That's not as interesting to me as the political machinations and familial betrayals.
Here's an exciting graph: The result of all their behind-the-scenes machinations?
Many foreign powers involved in Libya have tolerated or encouraged the general's machinations.
Rather, all of that business was simple House Of Cards-level political machinations.
Any discomfort with its embrace is mistakenly ascribed to the machinations of America.
The machinations carried out by otherwise good people are his glorious, guilty pleasure.
It cannot be pinned entirely to James Comey's letter or to Russian machinations.
Much of Congo's tragic late-20th-century history is attributable to these machinations.
Glanzman says neurobiologists have been studying the machinations of snail brains for decades.
While the results of Georges's machinations are grim, the telling brims with delight.
Huge. It's almost cripplingly terrifying to imagine the machinations being planned right now.
But for many people, it's hard to not be fearful of Washington's machinations.
I think there was all kinds of different machinations going on at the time.
Shady alliances, Cruel Intentions-style machinations, and Spain's answer to Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester)?
Regardless of the White House's machinations, it appears Republicans are keeping their heads down.
Every single one of these fast-moving plot machinations very clearly serves a purpose.
Perhaps Mr Cooper just wasn't interested in the machinations of the contemporary pop business.
Yes, the DNC is a powerful institution, and yes, its internal machinations are newsworthy.
The tribal council is slightly complicated by Jenna's clown car machinations to deceive Donathan.
The sexy storylines; the thrilling, deadly machinations; the complicated, dangerous women at its core.
The Conjuring is set in 1971 and introduced the doll and her malicious machinations.
The oil refining industry will also be scrambling to respond to last week's machinations.
Most Americans appropriately believe the allegations about Russia's election machinations need to be investigated.
President Trump's self-serving political machinations undermined the foreign policy of the United States.
Republican leaders in Washington have made little effort to quash the anti-Trump machinations.
The children enjoying this spring day were most likely oblivious to these adult machinations.
Though market reaction has been muted regarding the Fed machinations, there are some rumblings.
XLR8R unveils the first of a three-part series exploring the machinations of hearing.
If President Trump did not already know of these machinations, he certainly does now.
In Italy, the human gesture, the consoling word, remain everyday currency, whatever Salvini's machinations.
Its causes and effects both had sources in the passive-aggressive machinations of colonialism.
But Maia doesn't have the strength not to fall victim to Madeline's clever machinations.
How brands deal with the machinations of the grey market is of great importance.
And then — thanks largely to the machinations of history — things start changing for them.
Remember that they aren't focused on the minute-to-minute machinations of your race.
Then, when she wakes, they threaten to institutionalize her to further their business machinations.
But, there are even darker machinations at work in this scene Meadow likely doesn't realize.
But now there is also a belief in the Astros' machinations, borne out of results.
Except in this version, the other is completely oblivious to the machinations of the universe.
All these machinations are another sign of just how hugely partisan and unusual 2016 was.
As usual, Facebook's machinations are shrouded in mystery to the detriment of its vulnerable users.
These and other monetary machinations are so distant and abstract they make "money" seem meaningless.
In 2016 Chile's performance slumped after one such rejig, which some attributed to political machinations.
Like Kafka's K. in The Castle, Zama is imprisoned in the machinations of senseless governance.
Sure, "The First" is about a future expedition to Mars, not present day political machinations.
But the process surrounding the contest and the political machinations between Wednesday and a Jan.
His claim that such machinations work only because of Americans' attitudinal predispositions fails to satisfy.
The constant threat of natural disasters and criminal machinations is calmly incorporated into their narrative.
He assured them that the referendum would be honoured despite the machinations of the establishment.
It's absurd, but it's not that far off to the machinations of Bachelor in Paradise.
Democrats, for the most part, have avoided attributing Hillary Clinton's defeat directly to Russian machinations.
But some are skeptical that ideology played a large part in this week's political machinations.
Indeed, these problems were much broader than the alleged industry machinations to muzzle the agency.
That means that the impeachment inquiry can't be constrained by electoral calendars or judicial machinations.
Fortunately, history does not move on the machinations of a select group of great people.
Others marveled at the machinations behind the sprawling family and its impact on American culture.
"You don't win an election in Paris via machinations among party machines," he told Reuters.
It will reveal the FBI machinations around the Clinton investigation and the Russian collusion case.
Most of the comedy comes courtesy of the Kafkaesque machinations of the divorce industrial complex.
Another senior administration official called the Mulvaney machinations a process that's done with for now.
Volker casts himself as a somewhat naïve diplomat, caught in machinations he didn't fully understand.
Ultimately, it will be up to Congress whether they'll accept the administration's machinations on TPA.
Rating It sounds like the machinations of a product-placement genius, but it actually happened.
This brings us back full-circle to Wikileaks exposing the machinations and horrors of these wars.
WWE's historic penchant for small-business-unfriendly machinations seems refreshingly intact, 40 years on and counting.
By the last of its eight episodes, 3% weakens under the weight of its own machinations.
I am not -- they are as unaware of their own machinations as you could possibly imagine.
But President Obama didn't become aware of Hamo's story through diplomatic channels or international bureaucratic machinations.
That, not the machinations of the Democratic Party elite, is the nut of the political problem.
But Blackstone's machinations seem to have broken the spirit, rather than the letter, of the rules.
A Swift song may interrupt real life, but it won't stop Olivia Pope's White House machinations.
"Many foreign powers involved in Libya have tolerated or encouraged the general's machinations," the Economist notes.
But this increased control over the game's inner machinations significantly detracts from the sense of consequence.
In the second, people simply stop keeping as close tabs on Trump and his daily machinations.
The actual machinations of a "repeal and replace" plan are uncertain, making the political outcomes unpredictable.
Rogow downplayed Stone's political machinations, saying there was nothing illegal about his talks with the campaign.
His machinations to have a third term showed he felt that he was above the law.
The closing arguments, coming after six days of testimony and years of legal machinations, offered contrasts.
State Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald has been more open about the partisan machinations in play.
The election of Donald Trump has caused an eruption of political machinations by various interest organizations.
Despite the machinations, he survived to be a thorn in the side of every US administration.
Otherwise boring legislative machinations have been energized with the drama of a life or death struggle.
As a longtime Washington correspondent, Hulse is an expert guide through the machinations on Capitol Hill.
The story here isn't the machinations President Hernández and his henchmen have used in this election.
The substance of the plot — the political machinations, the romantic entanglements — doesn't seem to interest her.
For a game played in the glare of open competition, its inner machinations were more opaque.
The machinations were of a piece with the manipulative habits of the two egos in chief.
And legislative machinations — Mitch McConnell scrambling to adjust the bill and President Trump promising "surprising" changes.
"But the question is, can Zuma keep himself out of court using legal machinations?" he asked.
There was plenty to admire in Axe's handiwork, to say nothing of the script's expert machinations.
She was complaining about the latest machinations of one of her AfD rivals, a favorite topic.
Similarly, Evil Cooper's machinations could easily be written off as happening because he's possessed by Bob.
But sales have declined since, likely prompting the machinations that would result in the iPhone X today.
She's one big eyeroll in a leather jacket, and appears to be privy to the universe's machinations.
Both The Red Woman and the Spider have been long-game strategists with endless machinations in play.
Second, it gave me a good understanding of the incentives and political machinations that can impede progress.
But even as the stakes rise, the political machinations move at a controlled and almost relaxing pace.
There will doubtless be more parliamentary machinations to stop a no-deal Brexit or force one through.
Memories of the uprisings run deep in China and are cause for all kinds of political machinations.
JOSEPH KABILA'S machinations to keep control of the Democratic Republic of Congo have crumbled one by one.
"The machinations, the backstabbing, the hideous caricatures and slurs were just devastating," historian Joan Waugh told CNN.
In The Last Jedi, we begin to gain an understanding of the inner machinations of Kylo's mind.
Traders assume the political machinations of the coming weeks and months may spur change on that front.
The one victim of the show's machinations is Chandra, whose dignity has been martyred for the cause.
But because Amona is built on private Palestinian land, it cannot solve the problem with legal machinations.
She says he's been closely following the machinations of the Manson case, especially the various parole hearings.
It would certainly be a twist if Salvini's machinations ended with a center-left coalition in power.
"I was struck by the machinations these little girls went through to establish common ground," he recalled.
Frankly, it's kind of nice to see a red carpet not be so fraught with marketing machinations.
And machinations of empires always played a larger role in promoting exchanges than did intrepid private traders.
But machinations among Indonesia's large secular parties, which dominate national politics, may influence matters, some analysts say.
The inner machinations of Vogue have been a source of intrigue and fascination for many years now.
It's an extremely detailed look at the institutional machinations and political jockeying of a particularly complex bureaucracy.
Sarah Koenig and Emmanuel Dzotsi go in search of a greater understanding of the machinations of American law.
Then there are a bunch of additional reimbursement machinations, with Purdue saying no state funds will be used.
After nearly 25 years in Hollywood, Natalie Portman has a unique perspective on the dangerous machinations of fame.
He's actually the park's most broadly sketched character, a flashy nihilist unaware of the machinations behind the park.
If it passes, it could set a huge precedent for protecting net neutrality despite the Trump FCC's machinations.
The internal machinations that resulted in Truman's selection are a sordid tale with which few Americans are familiar.
There were constants in the friendship between Will Robinson and Robot and in Dr. Smith's self-serving machinations.
What Kearns and her team have discovered has provided new clarity into the machinations of the sugar industry.
These were men and women who, despite the odds and political machinations, were building their country's internet infrastructure.
Obviously, it's easier to judge as an outsider without a complete understanding of the machinations of their relationship.
The forested county just north of San Francisco feels a world removed from the NFL Draft's chaotic machinations.
If anything, Capra grumbled, they seemed penalized for having been away from the machinations of the studio system.
Turkey's machinations have also led to fears in Aleppo, where earlier this month rebels broke a government siege.
Some of the machinations these law firms use to keep this money tax free are extensive and complicated.
But Lateiki's cycles of death and rebirth give scientists clues to the nature of the magmatic machinations below.
So did Valeant's problems arise from a McKinsey-driven ethos devoted to driving shareholder value through financial machinations?
While "Mindhunter" and "Stranger Things" delve into United States government conspiracies, "Secret City" explores similar machinations Down Under.
The director of SKAT was laid off in August 2016, though Mr. Shah's machinations were among several causes.
"If you learn of any machinations to tamper with that investigation, you would let us know," Feinstein asked.
Russia's annexation of Crimea and its violent machinations in Eastern Ukraine haven't improved its ability to threaten NATO.
Lawmakers took a day off from their back-room machinations to oust Prime Minister Theresa May to participate.
The deal-making machinations, which have unfolded in two countries for over a year, are complicated and interconnected.
Is that huge collar popped as a buffer against the cold or the machinations of a cynical government?
This places him among the first generation of hosts, like Dolores, who are crucial in Dr. Ford's machinations.
It is being contradicted now by the machinations that would allow the power authority to push aside reform.
This was not the stuff of Olympian maneuvering but rather of base human machinations, in Mr. Hollande's view.
And despite his behind-the-scenes machinations, he has done a masterful job of appearing perfectly content there.
Thankfully there is one key to understanding Amber's machinations hiding in all the Lost-meets-The Society drama.
Yet Carrey is more than just hinting the voters were too ill-equipped to fight off foreign machinations.
You don't need to dig through court documents or follow the machinations of congressional procedure to be alarmed.
Expanding the scope beyond her own story, Ellin seeks to uncover the machinations of con artist relationships in Duped.
Westworld's premiere established the rules of the game, the machinations of the designers and the loops of the hosts.
Lysa believed Littlefinger was in love with her, and agreed to help him in his machinations because of that.
It is unclear what, exactly, will come after this week's machinations, although partisan hostilities and legal arguments seem certain.
That EP, at least according to Rolling Stone, explains the provenance of the machinations that open and close Endless.
Despite the machinations of a very cute tiny cat, Caroline and John manage to have a warm first date.
The problem in Destiny 2, as dedicated fans have discovered, is the invisible presence of these XP-limiting machinations.
To do this to our transgender service members due to political machinations is nothing short of harmful and vindictive.
This week, machinations took a bizarre turn when Bevin signed an executive order to remove the KRS board chairman.
Chastain is in command all the way, though, and some of the Beltway machinations have an undeniably soapy charm.
The behind-the-scenes deals and machinations look so outdated the actors might as well be wearing powdered wigs.
These episodes are live-action, following the employees of Monarch Solutions, Paul's evil corporation behind the time travel machinations.
His policies represent views of Americans through the Democratic process — not just machinations of one former reality TV star.
All of the machinations have opened the door to a late entrant and are largely in response to Sen.
I can imagine all sorts of resurrections and plot machinations, but structurally it was a totally maxed-out film.
Anyone who paid attention to the show could understand the motivations and machinations that led to blood being spilled.
Here, the whisperings have begun that, once again, the north will be vulnerable to the machinations of the south.
Binet, who has written a nonfiction book about former President François Hollande, has a keen interest in political machinations.
She really couldn't take two minutes to pause her mighty machinations last night and say, "This shit is unacceptable"?
At the time, this was widely seen as an effort to thwart possible machinations from supporters of then-Rep.
Mr. Trump, who enjoys embarrassing reporters and planting his own information about staff machinations, has mentioned several other names.
No one really knew, just as almost no one understood the machinations that led to the partial government shutdown.
The mudslinging and cutthroat machinations prompted Mr. Rivlin to offer an apology to the Israeli public on Monday morning.
That character, Victoria Leeds, is a drug dealer and would-be real estate mogul whose machinations threaten the Bay.
Stay tuned on the procedural machinations of the day -- they still aren't fully fleshed out as of Thursday morning.
A case can likewise be made that the league, at least this summer, has benefited from the players' machinations.
In her opening statement, she decried Trump's machinations on Ukraine while calling for more support for the foreign service.
Whistle-blowing, as Mr. Ellsberg did, is a time-honored means for exposing the secret machinations of the powerful.
The film spends less time dwelling on the machinations of celebrity and fame to focus on their story instead.
Numerous questions remain as to what intentions and machinations were in play in this latest threat to Egyptian culture.
As attention focuses on transition gossip and congressional machinations, it's important not to let our eyes off the ball.
But without the proper machinations, and without accidents of time or co-signs, so little cuts through the din.
Some Remainers comfort themselves with the illusion that the referendum's outcome was the result of Russian machinations or Brexiteers' lies.
Dany's machinations at home aren't some distant concept to Cersei in the Red Keep — they're happening right across the water.
But Joffrey's death revealed deeper machinations from Varys — who, it turns out, hadn't been serving the Baratheon dynasty at all.
The evolution of the proposed Muslim ban into a bar on visitors from some countries was consistent with such machinations.
It's impossible not to assume the bombshell letters of "Smart Power" didn't lead to these necessary political machinations against Gilead.
Is Dish Network really going to become a viable fourth national wireless carrier after all of these spectrum transfer machinations?
"If Davis's machinations behind the scenes...didn't help the spirit of the negotiations, they certainly hastened the endgame," MacCambridge wrote.
Yet, we're all rooting for Barry — our sweet, awkward Barry — and rolling our eyes through Sally's Shakespearean machinations and monologues.
The newly heartbroken teen is done with her family's machinations and moves out of the Lodge penthouse to prove it.
And, in some brilliant machinations by Kardashian matriarch Kris Jenner, they did it all within the span of four months.
The government regularly intervenes in the operation of the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges through trade freezes and other machinations.
Putkonen spoke impeccable English in an intelligent and measured manner yet his capacity for doublethink and conspiratorial machinations was astonishing.
This is precisely the reality Colin described to Stefan, suggesting Pac-Man is an example of the PAC Program's machinations.
What's crazier than the insane political machinations of House of Cards being outdone by the very real politics of 2017?
All those machinations introduce a great deal of randomness to the arrangement of fibres within an individual piece of paper.
The theory became hugely popular, because it was the rare explanation that didn't rely on criminal machinations or terrorist plots.
Furthermore, when Russia doesn't do as well as usual, this can simply be blamed on the exclusions and foreign machinations.
Although they may be locked into the trappings of their class and gender, their political machinations become their best weapons.
In one shot, a sex doll examines the anatomy of another, removing its prosthetic face to reveal its inner machinations.
The clip follows two metalhead/slacker dudes as they're sucked into the increasingly horrific machinations of a "nasal enlightenment" cult.
The expansion draft has thrown a wrench into the already complex machinations of NHL teams during the early off-season.
That so lofty a goal might be debased by Giuliani's machinations to influence U.S. elections disgusted some of these officials.
What ensues is a contest over Lance, the clerk who works the copy store's graveyard shift and witnessed Jimmy's machinations.
Honeyland has no voiceover, so we get to know them through Hatidze's eyes and the subtle machinations of her expressions.
That these machinations are laid plain—that this music does not aspire to spontaneity—makes it feel more true. ♦
The Sandinistas were not part of some historical process of modernization, but rather Moscow's machinations, and thus must be opposed.
Whether the benefits of lower costs trickle down to consumers will depend on the internal machinations of the shipping industry.
The plot is complicated, featuring machinations and betrayals; Coriolanus ends up defecting to the Volsci and nearly destroying his homeland.
Much of her questioning of Dr. Blasey only served to illustrate the witness's general ignorance of the machinations of politics.
As a historian, Ellis takes particular offense at the machinations made by Justice Antonin Scalia in District of Columbia v.
Wallace, in a fervent hope to work with Moscow, was blind to the machinations in which he was a pawn.
Political change unfolds in unexpected ways, and not everything on Earth revolves around the machinations of the US federal government.
An all-in-one entertainment and information service remains a cyber-utopian fantasy unparalleled outside of Isaac Asimov's literary machinations.
"I have Twitter to talk about the president and his daily machinations," Bharara tells Pamela Paul on this week's podcast.
And he had seen enough of the machinations of decision-making to be certain that this one would go through.
The grain of his voice and his folky sense of melody still hold together all of the songs' odd machinations.
But after Wednesday, thanks to the machinations of the Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko, dismissing such claims became far more difficult.
Jane has this unique way of delivering a story that is just filled with these machinations of womanhood and femininity.
The judge, however, told prosecutors to focus on the alleged financial machinations that they claim made such a lifestyle possible.
"His reportage often illuminates the personal and commercial machinations that inevitably inform art's checkered past and present," Mr. Rothkopf wrote.
Anyone who thought autocracy would arrive with back-room deals or sleight-of-hand machinations at midnight should think again.
They said it was Mr. Bolton's impolitic comments, and not behind-the-scenes Chinese machinations, that hardened North Korean attitudes.
They talk about the machinations of her inner circle during her final years in power and her pioneering climate advocacy.
Qassim Suleimani, Vice President Mike Pence reeled off a list of some of General Suleimani's most notorious attacks and machinations.
From 22015, John McNaughton's "Wild Things" (Thursday) is convoluted enough to make the machinations of Ms. Turner's character seem straightforward.
In contrast to the machinations of diplomacy and politics, law enforcement officers only care about one thing: What is true?
In "Julius Caesar," they might stand in for Roman senators, witnessing the machinations leading to the gory Ides of March.
From 1998, John McNaughton's "Wild Things" (Thursday) is convoluted enough to make the machinations of Ms. Turner's character seem straightforward.
It's infuriating that Euron has such a heavy hand in Cersei's machinations, considering he only properly entered the game last season.
The Affordable Care Act made some of these machinations unnecessary, and corporate policies have started to restrict coverage of separated spouses.
The uneasy relationship between the private individual and the machinations of the state is evident in Mr Farhadi's previous work, too.
The army's machinations should ensure that the succession, whenever it comes, passes without great drama, at least in the short term.
Related: Brutal Blood Sports Are on the Rise in the UK Government machinations have benefitted the industry in other ways too.
The firm's political connections and machinations—whether real or merely imagined—earned it the sobriquet "vampire squid" from Rolling Stone magazine.
The fact that Joe's machinations are just so easy is what makes the entire show so terrifying — and that's the point.
It's up to the duo to protect Masaru from the machinations of those looking to kill him and steal his inheritance.
Underlying such machinations lies the assumption that the BRI will deliver a host of lucrative spillover effects to the transit countries.
Rogen's reaction is pretty well-judged in this respect, as his sarcasm undercuts the more sinister image of his political machinations.
Maybe Sanders got caught up on all the shady machinations afoot in the world's fifth-largest country in his newfound downtime.
Short for Australian politics, #auspol is most often used for commentary and rumour spreading about the machinations of the federal government.
Trump's proclivity toward outlandish stories about hidden machinations will present a particular problem to his likely general-election opponent, Hillary Clinton.
Casually browsing Reddit means you'll be inundated with more posts about Reddit and its larger machinations and culture than anything else.
"Unfortunately, the machinations and volatility in oil is going to continue to be the tail that wags the dog," said Hogan.
Basic incivility gives way to an anarchic vision of creative destruction; many die or lose their minds due to Pyotr's machinations.
But here in the city where 58 people were murdered Sunday night at a concert, those political machinations feel virtually irrelevant.
The machinations of the Jacobite uprising and the prickly dynamics of the Scottish clans have never been interesting on their own.
All of the machinations of the DNC added together had virtually no impact on the selection of the nominee for president.
The country is weary of the scandals and political machinations that play out as a soap opera on the nightly news.
That debate probably played a role in the political machinations that led to the resignation of Moshe Yaalon, the defense minister.
Time and again, nominally sound anti-graft initiatives are revealed to have deep political machinations guiding which way their tendrils reach.
Madeline's story has been fun to watch for its brand of verbal violence and clever machinations against other mothers like Renata.
As a result, there's incredibly little attention paid to who those electors even are outside internal party machinations in each state.
It could well have been a scene from "Billions," the television show about the machinations and appetites of hedge fund titans.
In addition to just padding his ego, Ross' machinations helped bolster his standing in a way that translated into business opportunities.
Their performances match Christie's original, unfiligreed prose, and they don't obstruct the view of the machinations of plot and court procedure.
But he blamed his loss of North Vietnam on the imaginary machinations of "Chinese half-breeds" in the Vietnamese party leadership.
His breakthrough came in 2012 with "This House," an improbably entertaining play about the machinations of the British Parliament in 1974.
And it's the same truth that has been terrorizing us all along: Donald Trump's dirtbag machinations are driven by insane vanity.
And if her machinations, as some critics suggest, leech onto black pain, they also reveal the psychodramas of our current reality.
Silly as it sounds, the scene is a textbook example of the attention to detail "Billions" pays to its Manhattan machinations.
Plenty of people outside the White House also see it as a stretch to think that such machinations are in play.
We'll explore the wily machinations of big tobacco in a moment, but first let's look at what this particular study found.
It was a sleight of hand characteristic of Asia's shrewdest veteran politician — and it left Malaysians breathless from the political machinations.
There's a pretty explanation for these machinations, and it's also in the puzzle: A whole revealer row, at 90 and 92A.
It's a heartbreaking moment, the payoff to a whole season's worth of tortured exchanges and toxic machinations between the two siblings.
While trade issues are still very much present, end-of-the-quarter machinations are likely playing a part in the chaos.
But he makes music as though he&aposs untouched by fame, pressure, self-doubt, or the machinations of the music industry.
"As a result, a lot of journalists see their job as exposing the devious machinations of the Clinton Machine," she added.
Through all the machinations of the fight game and the long string of triumphs and defeats, Duva's love for boxing endured.
Audiences of eighty-seven were served vodka and pierogi as the machinations of nineteenth-century Russian society raged all around them.
It's an understatement to say that the machinations of season 37 already feel particularly sharp (and more than a little petty).
Especially complex are the machinations of a series of robot-like animated heads, both wireframe and solid blue with red lips.
Of course, Cheryl joining the cult was unexpected, and only happened after Betty enlisted her to spy on the machinations of Evernever.
But of course, it's not an ancient story — it's one that depends on the unique machinations of the American celebrity-making machine.
The film smartly ties the machinations of an incompetent government to shows of power and dominance by insecure or just ineffective masculinity.
The tension of Killing Eve's globetrotting machinations is only rivaled by watching our heroine and antiheroine becoming increasingly fixated on each other.
Second, and of much more concern than the likelihood of politicians using Ahok's predicament for political gain, are machinations by army generals.
He spoke forcefully against the "machinations" of the big-money in New York and Democratic Party that he sees as supporting Clinton.
But, after months of machinations and negotiations, PowerPoint presentations and strategic "buckets," their odds of leveling the longtime bogeyman are growing longer.
It is natural to feel that such revelations account for only a small fraction of machinations that we mostly know nothing about.
The central machinations involved the United States organizing clandestine arms sales to Iran in order to expedite the release of American hostages.
The inference is that this increasingly frequent tightness is starting to reflect something more than the machinations of the LME paper market.
The long delays in Mr. Seselj's case, to a large extent the result of his machinations, caused profound embarrassment for the tribunal.
It is a domestic drama, less interested in the grand machinations of state than the petty jealousies and squabbles of its characters.
The court should be above this kind of bickering, serving as a beacon for impartial justice, its functioning unrestricted by congressional machinations.
Brown once said he was both "attracted and repelled" by the political discussions and machinations that took place in his parents' house.
If Saudis are indeed behind the machinations, they may find they have waded a bit too deep into Lebanese politics this time.
Speaking to reporters Monday morning, deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley chided the media for its interest in the machinations of personnel changes.
She's seen firsthand the desperate need for tighter gun controls, and she understands the political machinations that prevent such changes from happening.
The point of all of this, it seems, was to push out Yovanovitch because she wouldn't have been helpful to Giuliani's machinations.
This film adaptation of the first three installments of the series follows the Baudelaires as they try to survive Olaf's murderous machinations.
It's the acceptance of those machinations by the State Department and the American Embassy in enabling Mr. Hernández to stay in power.
Chuck's story line, meanwhile, is redolent of the machinations that made middle-season "Game of Thrones" episodes so much fun to watch.
Superstars thought to be "held down" by the corporate machinations driving WWE in real life will create moments that fans remember forever.
In other cases, some people have complained that the machinations over jury selection were, in effect, stall tactics by desperate defense lawyers.
There is also time travel involved, and the machinations of Marchesa Alfonsina de Luna (Nicoletta Braschi), known as the queen of cigarettes.
AMC's Into the Badlands did better with the fights, but its dystopic-future setting is still mired in drearily convoluted plot machinations.
It is not clear how much the devastation from the hurricane or the machinations in Raleigh over recovery will tilt the scales.
As for the lack of Ms. Nixon's experience in the inner circles of the state's political machinations, I'd consider that a plus.
Is this virus, this lesion, going to make us rethink the numbing, blinding, machinations of industrial giantism as we have known it?
She imposes a handicap on herself, affecting a limp as part of the machinations deemed necessary in order to find her lover.
But the party could not completely distance itself from Mr. Cuomo and the machinations that often complicate political life in the state.
While some topics were eternal redlines — the military, religion, ethnic disputes and the inner machinations of the state — others were anyone's guess.
The machinations come as the Fed looks to figure out what is the proper level of reserves banks need to operate comfortably.
These machinations have the ability to make or break products, tilting the playing field in favor of what benefits the platform most.
But the machinations involved and the money and time it would tie up during the early days of free agency seemed prohibitive.
It's easy to get swept up in the speeches and GIF-worthy reactions and overlook all the machinations leading up to that moment.
" • At the American Conservative, Gareth Porter dives into Bolton's machinations toward Iran: "Bolton's high-profile advocacy of war with Iran is well known.
Staying ahead of the maelstrom of political news, geopolitics, and the machinations of their rivals means such plans seldom work out as expected.
"Lincoln founded the party of the 'big tent' back in 1854," one long-serving state senator, fed up with Regan's machinations, told me.
The film mostly stays in Washington, focusing on the machinations behind the scenes that get men elected and bills on the Senate floor.
I'm talking about Republican lawmakers who know that the president's Ukraine machinations are indefensible and impeachable, particularly after Tuesday's disclosures by Lt. Col.
The emails have been embarrassing for the Clinton campaign, bringing internal machinations of the campaign -- and some off-color comments -- into the public.
The answer has to do with the personal political machinations of a controversial character in Israeli politics: Avigdor Lieberman, Israel's new defense minister.
But that may only mark the start of a new phase in the conflict, one defined more by the machinations of foreign powers.
In a recent interview on Dax Shepard's Armchair Expert podcast, Sophia Bush, the show's lead actress, revealed even more about the show's machinations.
But he also warns that America will enforce its sanctions regime vigorously, "whatever machinations anyone tries to go through" to get round it.
It's unclear how potent that attack is now that he has retired from public office — if not from the behind-the-scenes machinations.
The public has never had access to the internal deliberations and machinations of a chief executive like Twitter has provided us with Trump.
These folks spend more time worrying about remembering the names of their sons and daughters than about the political machinations of Senate leadership.
It had an excellent twist at its end and some meaty political machinations that mirrored the terror-phobic year in which it arrived.
Taylor: Former US ambassador Masha Yovanovitch 'has been treated poorly' and was 'caught in a web of political machinations in Kiev and Washington.'
He said Yovanovitch "has been treated poorly" as the result of being "caught in a web of political machinations in Kiev and Washington."
Understand the machinations behind your trusted advisor's move and make your own decision on which person and which firm best suits your needs.
There is no doubt Energy Transfer is good at tax planning, but these sort of machinations are locking the company into the transaction.
Governments like the U.K. that just forcibly seized documents related to Facebook's machinations surrounding the Cambridge Analytica debacle provide some indication of willpower.
This gripping six-part series and accompanying podcasts explores the lives of a family caught in the machinations of a vicious con man.
After legal machinations that saw the case briefly visit the Supreme Court, it is now back with the original judge for further consideration.
Of course, in terms of self-serving machinations, Ms. Manigault Newman is bush league compared with the former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
The rushed machinations to get the policy done, as demanded by John R. Bolton, the national security adviser, have not been previously reported.
In the books, Sansa is relatively safe and sound in the Eyrie, although she's still in disguise and involved in various political machinations.
Even beyond such formal attestations, some ethicists said there was a case for expelling the students who benefited unknowingly from their parents' machinations.
"I'm terribly, terribly sorry," he said, trying to untangle the plot machinations leading up to the NBC drama's 100th episode on Wednesday, Jan.
But he raised fewer objections as prosecutors shifted to evidence of how Mr. Manafort's financial machinations enriched him and later kept him afloat.
The book's subtitle ("My Battle With the European and American Deep Establishment") might lead a reader to expect all manner of sinister machinations.
When your policies don't help the people who've been voting for you, it doesn't take the machinations of Russian hackers to lose elections.
The latest volume in his canon is "Conclave," a tightly woven tale about power machinations at the top of the Roman Catholic Church.
That can lead to all kinds of-- machinations in the stock market, send some real impact to people when prices finally go down.
Democrats' highlights of Hill's testimony | Full transcript Hill described Bolton as furious over the political machinations — and eager to distance himself from them.
Now wheelchair-bound and mute, Don Hector tries to help his nephew figure out how to handle Gus Fring, whose machinations mystify Lalo.
And so even when the stubborn lot of resisters remained, the machinations to dismiss them were built into these governments and their laws.
Even in his initial memoir, he offers more about the byzantine machinations of small-town Vermont politics than any hint of a bildungsroman.
But the fate of Mr Corbyn's great project to build socialism in Britain depends on the political machinations of a handful of individuals.
Within the machinations of the first-person industrial complex, however, personal writing had a big moment of profitability — just not for the writers.
But other political machinations could be at play behind the dismissal, Mr. Jeong said, citing speculation about a rivalry among different power centers.
There have been no machinations over who gets drafted where, outside the acknowledgment that Roman Reigns' suspension throws a spanner into the works.
For journalists who focus on technology, this often means reporting about things that happen on platforms, or the internal machinations of the companies themselves.
My advice is to stay focused on their business, while not letting the president's machinations throw them off course and speaking out whenever required.
The will of her callous teachers has been thwarted, she has the job she wants despite the nepotistic machinations of her former friend, Fringilla.
Critics loved it, too, praising the way it offered a thought-provoking and inventive take on familiar genres without abandoning characters for plot machinations.
Participants describe the studies as being a kind of support group for Washington's godly minority, offering a respite from secularism and self-interested machinations.
Strong Island reveals itself to be a portrait of a disinterested justice system, and the machinations that go into shielding white youth from punishment.
But the twist establishes two of New World Order's core themes: pointlessly convoluted political machinations and a plot built on narratively convenient dream logic.
Critics who worry that Vivendi is run for the benefit of Mr Bolloré and not its other shareholders point to such machinations as evidence.
Its patience with the North may be running out, but even China may have only limited information about the machinations within the Pyongyang government.
Compared to Gatti's past subjects like the Oil for Food scandal or the machinations behind the 2008 financial crisis, this is low-hanging fruit.
But now that, in real life, we're in the throes of such a bizarre presidential race, his machinations are starting to look almost viable.
China is not the only country whose government is so secret; in Russia, too, the machinations inside the Kremlin remain deeply mysterious (see article).
He wanted one side to accuse the other of crimes they did not commit, even if the Kremlin's discoverable machinations made it appear otherwise.
Tokyo and Seoul act as if resigned to machinations of Pyongyang and Washington, with little our Asian partners can do to control their future.
What was more, as Ms. Curtin told it, her career was hindered by a set of backstage machinations as Machiavellian as anything in opera.
The first is: After six years of legal machinations and millions of dollars spent in legal fees, what did the O'Bannon case really accomplish?
As I reported in a story about the Nashville Statement, their machinations will eventually cost them the power they've worked so cannily to achieve.
I met with Franklin Leonard at this year's TED conference to try to understand how his survey fits into the machinations of modern Hollywood.
The worldview of countries that have suffered at the machinations of colonialism and Western power plays is conducive to grand policies and conspiracy theories.
Michael J. Avenatti, Ms. Clifford's lawyer and a sharp critic of Mr. Trump, said early Thursday that he saw political machinations behind the arrest.
In both cases, an expanding cast and a few seasons of byzantine political machinations helped detract attention from what was lurking there all along.
It's a doorstop, full of sound and fury, more nihilistic than Shakespeare's original, with all the blunt and dismal machinations of a soap opera.
But who knows with this crew, whose endless machinations have played out like a soap opera (and soon will be a hopefully juicy book!).
Clinton, her top advisers and former President Bill Clinton, who's an elector for New York, have remained silent on the various Electoral College machinations.
Quinn's John Proctor, the target of Abigail's machinations, is red-blooded and robust, best spotlighted in precise domestic scenes with Susannah Millonzi's Elizabeth Proctor.
He recalled the Friday last September when Trump's Ukraine machinations first became clear, and even the most reluctant Democrats suddenly and enthusiastically embraced impeachment.
Throw in a pinch of "Billions" in the high-stakes financial machinations, where Alex's actions provoke suspicion on the part of an astute coworker.
You can find everything from in-depth breakdowns into Trump administration machinations to reflections on the contemporary state of race, gender, and class relations.
So I think during the Obama years and the Clinton years, you saw this kind of like very careful tentative technocratic policy machinations, right?
But this rigorously crafted action film still provides a helpful analogy for what happens when those with power affect the machinations of public spaces.
During these early moments FFXII suffers from Phantom Menace syndrome, extolling the importance of political machinations at the expense of developing its cast of characters.
It's an exploration of the machinations of a justice system that strives blindly for a clean-cut resolution amidst the unknowable muck of human nature.
"A United Kingdom" has its strengths, particularly in exposing the myriad machinations of the British government as it tried to justify apartheid in South Africa.
He was intelligent, but naive; the perfect casualty for the machinations of Stringer Bell, who was fearful of the boy's capacity to incriminate the criminal.
The Lifetime drama suggests there are infinite little machinations at work behind the scenes of dating shows, many of which begin before filming even starts.
The company has traditionally kept its development process under wraps, its long-term machinations secret, and its corporate inner workings away from the public eye.
In the West people on the right remember a whiter past, with fewer cultures, even as the hard left condemns the machinations of global business.
Though the stimulus is just talk at this point, Trump's agenda seems to have replaced the Fed's machinations as the center of the market's universe.
But when we look back at the election season, we'll have more to think about than the political machinations that landed us our 45th President.
If the oligarchs are not free to enjoy and expand their wealth because of sanctions triggered by Putin's geopolitical machinations, they may question that understanding.
To smug Democrats who think themselves more evolved because of their supposedly modern view of women in power, these machinations against Pelosi should cause alarm.
Her departure would, surely, be cause for celebration—but only if it comes about through the courts or the ballot box, not cynical political machinations.
These machinations successfully drive Hakeem out as Empire's C.E.O., but it's never made clear who will be tapped to run the company in his stead.
After the machinations of getting the children to sleep, we would sit side by side in bed with computers on our laps, surfing the internet.
The resulting 13 audio concoctions wholly reflect those malevolent atmospheres through the prism of T.O.M.B.'s signature murky, industrialized black metal-cum-ambient noise machinations.
These strange scenarios, and the machinations and floor fights that might make them possible, are basically the reason that journalists pine for a contested convention.
To succeed they have to play a game of hiding their anger behind careful smiles and sharp barbs rather than outright machinations or drawing swords.
And so Hitler had an easy time claiming that the Army had been robbed of victory by the sinister machinations of socialists, pacifists, and Jews.
It's fitting: that monument serves as both the best-known example of a video game time-loop and the unapologetic inspiration for Elsinore's temporal machinations.
But the machinations are just a pretext for such sequences as an escape in a crowded transit station and pursuits involving multiple teams of cars.
While experts predict most economies will recover, some countries, perhaps less able than Italy, will be susceptible to the machinations of less well-intentioned nations.
Prosecutors said on Friday that officials or employees from Mr. Podesta's and Mr. Weber's firms knew about Mr. Manafort's machinations to disguise his lobbying work.
Yes, many of the machinations were Machiavellian, but there was a certain brilliance to some of the moves, as in a chess game masterfully played.
In his work with Iannucci, Armstrong skewered political machinations, exposing the extravagant pettiness behind so much government bureaucracy, from Downing Street to the White House.
While the Trump administration was predisposed to reject a takeover so closely related to national security, behind-the-scenes machinations by Qualcomm hastened the result.
Of course, her machinations are more about not embarrassing the family than saving the country from a disastrous president, but when you're right, you're right.
Researchers said that pinning down when and how Earth's vivid geological machinations arose will do more than flesh out our understanding of our home base.
Lsel Station, by contrast, is austere and utilitarian, maintaining a tense independence from Teixcalaan partly through the careful machinations of the former ambassador Yskandr Aghavn.
The rushed machinations were another sign of the lengths to which the president's top advisers will go to protect the alliance from Mr. Trump's antipathy.
Then, faced with the prospect of prison and huge fines, Mr. Manafort's allies say, he blamed Mr. Manafort for financial machinations that he himself executed.
Wall Street may have lost some ground, but the mounting possible extinction toll is many magnitudes more vital than the arbitrary machinations of the Dow.
The political, dynastic, and religious machinations of this era should have provided ample material for a meaty exploration of the relationship between art and power.
The new HBO drama follows a powerful but dysfunctional dynasty and gives it a twist: Amid all the Machiavellian machinations is a reservoir of satire.
It also included John R. Bolton, his former national security adviser, who plans to publish a book next month revealing Mr. Trump's machinations about Ukraine.
By building the film around the technically brilliant one-shot technique, "1917" becomes a transparent watch, displaying its gears and machinations for all to see.
Backroom machinations to protect SNC-Lavalin, one of Canada's few global corporations, proved to many Canadians that his promise to do politics differently was empty.
"We continue to refuse, however, to treat fictitious and arbitrarily assigned paper profits as real and to give legal effect to Madoff's machinations," it added.
As The New York Times revealed, Fred Trump helped his son amass a huge fortune through a series of tax loopholes and other financial machinations.
The machinations of Las Encinas' conniving, sexy teens alone is enough to knock you off your feet (and now there are even more of them).
That change began with the emergence of press reports critical of Ambassador Yovanovitch and machinations by then-Prosecutor General Lutsenko and others to discredit her.
His music has remained complex, tender, and intimate — as though he&aposs untouched by fame, pressure, self-doubt, or the machinations of the music industry.
Why we're cautious: As with all superhero narratives, it's difficult to make origin stories feel fresh, and Raising Dion sometimes falls into too-predictable machinations.
Apparently, everything is going according to plan so far regarding the Seventh Kavalry's racist machinations, and they're not about to let Laurie mess that up.
In all, the music industry and listener machinations made for one of the most disorienting, and often exhilarating, years of hit music in recent memory.
And when these officials respond to the decisive voice of the people with regressive machinations, they should themselves be dealt with at the ballot box.
Political, economic, bureaucratic, geographic and historic machinations now at work will determine where the next giant telescope or next big particle collider will be built.
Most blame the conspiracy mentality on a sense of profound lack of control in their lives, whether due to randomness or the machinations of others.
Those brutish metaphorical patriarchs — the demands of history and the machinations of power-hungry megalomaniacs — hang heavy over the world, leaving many bruised and angry.
In a video game, the proverbial nuts and bolts, the machinations of the AI, are hidden beneath a veneer of animation and sound, the surface presentation.
It honestly felt like I was watching the second season for the first time — that's how little of an impact the machinations and weird developments had.
Cersei is unable to defend herself through trial by combat at all after her son King Tommen outlaws the practice due to the High Sparrow's machinations.
"I know there's a lot of bureaucratic machinations that can prevent him from winning Iowa," the molecular biologist said, bouncing his young daughter on his shoulders.
Behind the families' carefully crafted veneer of a public image, there's ugliness and tragedy, as well as the unseemly machinations that hold the whole dynasties together.
The first season of Lifetime's reality TV satire was a delicious bacchanal of behind-the-scenes machinations, black comedy, and narrative middle fingers to sexist stereotypes.
But it has been hard to match the force with which North Carolina Republicans have used various machinations to disenfranchise voters who tend to favor Democrats.
The primary driver of this volatility is the relaxation of regulations in the United States, bringing new drilling, which over-compensates all the OPEC cartel machinations.
Bloomberg's Eli Lake, one of the best-sourced reporters covering the administration's national security team, has written a column on the machinations behind Mattis' Afghanistan announcement.
The video was captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) from July 9 to 10 and shows the special machinations of the star's complicated magnetic fields.
Tyrion ranks highly because he sits in the center of the world's political machinations, and is connected mainly to other people who are also well-connected.
The constellation of headline-driving drama in today's news recalls the machinations that engulfed Presidents Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton for years of their respective tenures.
Paralleling these backroom machinations are a concerted media campaign by Trump's allies to discredit the FBI and the ongoing special counsel investigation led by Robert Mueller.
The erratic machinations of Giuliani, who increasingly acts as the class clown of the Trump defense team, have had the effect of slowing down the investigation.
On the surface James appears a manipulator of genius, but for all his machinations he is constantly flopping in the arenas of power, money and sex.
The Audi e-tron scooter — a name that matches the German automaker's all-electric SUV — combines a traditional electric scooter with the machinations of a skateboard.
Funny how the "zero problems" foreign policy of early "neo-Ottomanism" morphed into a very problematic reality: Erdogan has reaped the bitter harvest of his machinations.
But Conner, politically minded from the start, set his sights on San Francisco, where he rightly decided that the art world's machinations would be less oppressive.
However, after two years of machinations and the development of a significant public record urging caution, the FCC nonetheless opted to plow ahead with formal rules.
While many people are distracted by the machinations surrounding tax reform, the House Republican leadership released a draft of a full government Continuing Resolution through Jan.
Times have changed, and now the need for snitches to expose the bizarre and stupid machinations of the American government is at an all-time high.
Disconcertingly, the administration has left nearly 200 top jobs open at the State Department, which would normally be filled with policy experts who understand geopolitical machinations.
And to be sure, the boardroom machinations of "Safe Room" are wild and entertaining, but in Kendall, we see the cost of this sort of thing.
For his role in "Ozark," Jason Bateman earned a Golden Globe nomination as yet another ordinary gringo caught up in the machinations of a Mexican cartel.
Replace the Xbox controller maybe with the impenetrable machinations of Congress, where bills and markups and votes are often the stuff of hard-to-discern theater.
" She added, "One of the most moving aspects of the project has been watching playwrights and actors dive into the machinations of these large scale plays.
Philip D. Murphy's campaign and had always preferred the behind-the-scenes machinations of a campaign, found she was enthralled by the minutiae of city ordinances.
Soviet ideologues and propagandists mostly stayed away from the idea, preferring to blame the machinations of class enemies, foreign capitalists and imperialists for their country's problems.
John Paul was seen by some Roman Catholics as an earnest figure, perhaps ill prepared for the political machinations that faced the leader of the church.
As for the policy machinations, those stories are often covered, but they are rarely splashy news because by their very nature they are technical and bureaucratic.
William H. Russell was very active on Wall Street and down in D.C. I didn't understand the financial machinations that were going on behind the scenes.
" Asked why he thought the city had attracted the awards, Mr. Camorra said, "I don't know, but I'd assume it was a lot of political machinations.
From his groundbreaking third onwards, he explored topical conflicts and human duplicity in complex dramas that were rich in cloak-and-dagger machinations and moral ambiguity.
Having dealt with the rhythmic, systematic, methodical machinations of numerous grand jury proceedings, I concur that they are often fraught with predictable course direction and activity.
When General Ríos Montt was eventually convicted, many saw him as a victim of foreign machinations rather than a perpetrator of genocide and crimes against humanity.
Mr. Assange would like to counter the impression that WikiLeaks made itself a passive tool for the geopolitical machinations of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
The story is ostensibly about the Roman empress Agrippina's ferocious machinations to get her husband, Claudius, to cede the throne to her vastly unqualified son, Nero.
"Nigerians and the International Community should not be gullible or even vulnerable to the machinations of groups desirous of misleading them," Afunanya said in a statement.
What he will bring to the hearing, though, is deep knowledge of the country, combined with strong opinions on the machinations that have been taking place.
Crucial to understanding the machinations of the Academy Awards is knowing that the nominees, and winners, aren't necessarily the year's best but rather the most popular.
But "The Two Bills" still works, mostly, as a peek inside the locker room, the front office, and the complicated machinations behind America's most popular sport.
"Landfall" is a romance — a romance in which the president repeatedly intercedes, rom-com fashion — set against the machinations concerning the administration's defining failure in Iraq.
All in all, Constant as the Sun does a fairly engrossing job of exploring the fascinating and frustrating mechanics and machinations of "we" on the ground.
As an ABC suds-fest with a side of political machinations, Scandal has gone through more storylines over six seasons than most series tackle in a decade.
"People's Republic of Desire", a documentary directed by Hao Wu, reveals the strange machinations of an online world where people can fulfil their most basic social needs.
That The Good Fight shifts its primary focus from The Good Wife's world of politics to the world of corporate and business machinations is a smart choice.
The only question is whether President Trump, at least as inexperienced and unqualified in foreign policy as was George W. Bush, will go along with Bolton's machinations.
The homegrown terrorist threat in Belgium, as well as in France, is no doubt driven by the craven machinations of the powerful and well-funded Islamic State.
With all the machinations and antics of Elite, there are some much weirder and gnarlier plot threads to return to in the Las Encinas world next year.
In June 230, Edward Snowden let the world know the machinations of the US surveillance apparatus were turned not only outward but inward on a massive scale.
But where The Death of Stalin really reverberates is in how little ideology has to do with any of the machinations before Stalin's body is even cold.
Inside the DNC, Gabbard's machinations are being viewed as little more than that: trying to bolster her flagging campaign by pitching it as her against the system.
Game of Thrones has been rightly criticized for shying away from the books' unabashed love of all things magic and fantasy in favor of Westeros' political machinations.
Despite standing at the counter to wait for my order, I was unable see deep enough into the kitchen to witness any machinations that may have occurred.
Her mother, played by Kathryn Hahn, her step dad, played by Tim Heldecker, and a mysterious male friend, played by Adam Scott, seem oblivious to Erica's machinations.
The big picture: Amazon is becoming more and more enmeshed with the machinations of government and the programs it administers — and has the lobbying budget to match.
Often more gripping than the machinations of criminals were his observations of the transformation of post-Franco Spain, particularly Barcelona, Carvalho's adopted city (he hails from Galicia).
Cap Situation: $22,087,614—20th in the NFL Green Bay won't actually use this cap room, as we all know, but let's walk through the machinations for fun.
Then the machinations of Manley, who demanded to be paid for Irvin's contract (a precedent Rickey did not want to set) caused the Dodgers to drop him.
House of Cards Season 6 picks up (spoiler alert) with star Robin Wright's Claire Underwood in the Oval Office, a result of the previous season's political machinations.
Fossil-fuel machinations on Wall Street A record number of investors in 2017 pressured fossil-fuel companies to reveal how climate change could hit their bottom lines.
The highlight is the runway, where planes can "take off" and fly to faraway destinations, before returning (via a complex series of behind-the-scenes machinations) again.
Through the machinations of the duo, Trump went from a seemingly far-fetched candidate whose campaign was in great peril, to winning 30 states on November 8th.
To its detractors, Britain's machinations ruptured centuries of Middle Eastern stability under Ottoman rule, plunging the region into a chaos from which it has yet to emerge.
The meeting could be overtaken by the events on Capitol Hill, where two U.S. diplomats are slated to testify publicly about the Trump administration's machinations toward Ukraine.
There would be no Mueller Special Councel to investigate so called collusion but for the machinations of Strzok & his colleagues at the top levels of the FBI.
New details on military assistance The release of the transcripts Tuesday provided seemingly explosive details about the Trump administration's machinations with respect to security assistance to Ukraine.
Part of the power of the video Ms. Kardashian West released is it appeared to show that Ms. Swift's public presentation and private machinations were at odds.
Unlike other congressional districts, where the day-to-day machinations of Trump's administration feel a world away, the people here in Virginia's 10th District live with it.
This should include managing the complexities of the palace politics and a horde of the self-serving political mafia who engage in intrigue, deception and harmful machinations.
Towering over all, in all his egregious awfulness, is the horribly memorable Kenneth Widmerpool, whose self-promoting machinations are among the forces that drive the novel sequence.
Observing the household machinations with a sinister glare is the Lanlaires' coachman and gardener, Joseph (Vincent Lindon), a rabid anti-Semite to whom Célestine is immediately attracted.
Rimm's paper, savaged by critics, was found to have been published without peer review—feeding conspiracy theories that it was all the machinations of anti-porn activists.
I enjoyed that he was killed for confessing his machinations to one of his victims and then waiting to see what she did once she had power.
Those backroom machinations can, and often do, make or break deals like this , and the real calculus behind key votes is often not visible to the public.
Corn can be a pretty valuable commodity, worthy of Bond-esque machinations, and the drama can take place in the unlikeliest of locations—the cornfields of Iowa.
Qatar stocks are down almost 14 percent having seen tensions rise with Saudi Arabia and Turkey's lira TRY= has been pounded by rising inflation and political machinations.
In her grim yet playful fashion, Ingalls is concerned with the rules and conventions by which societies are organized, the violent machinations by which they are maintained.
He and other current and former diplomats assured me that despite the machinations going on in Washington, Ukraine can count on strong bipartisan support on Capitol Hill.
As the former mayor of Syracuse and onetime top official in the state's Democratic Party, Ms. Miner is intimately familiar with the machinations of New York politics.
Unabashedly talky and unapologetically angry, Mr. Leigh's film chronicles the debates and machinations leading up to a massacre of demonstrators marching for electoral reform and workers' rights.
"There is so much focus on the activity and the machinations in Washington," said George Allen, the former Republican governor and senator who ran statewide four times.
In a week consumed with Taylor Swift's latest millennial pop machinations, TM104 debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200, quantifiably proof of Jeezy's continuing commercial prowess.
It's unclear if Ri Yong-gil's sudden disappearance is at all linked to the launch, or if it's simply part of the usual political machinations in Pyongyang.
Liberals have defended Clinton's machinations as those of a shrewd political operator, rationally fearful of a Republican witch-hunt, simply stretching the bounds of open records law.
When the time comes to sit up, it can be difficult to extricate yourself from the sheer number of plot twists, political machinations and costumed dinner guests.
But even the most believable political machinations pale next to the captivating and endearing young man at this novel's heart: Alex Claremont-Diaz, President Ellen Claremont's son.
Past crises — mass shootings, white nationalist riots in Charlottesville and government shutdowns — faded out of the news cycle over time or were swallowed up by political machinations.
Kurt Severing, a journalist, finds that his efforts to expose the truth seem ever more fruitless against larger machinations that continue to turn regardless of public opinion.
The imperviousness of Doron and al-Makdasi to reason or compromise provides the emotional core, while the lies, machinations and sellouts of others provide the narrative engine.
The Italian state, which leads the third largest economy in the eurozone, has not inspired much confidence of late, as it has been consumed by internal machinations.
Just as slam dunks sometimes shatter backboards sending shards showering onto the floor, impeachment machinations can shatter the House chamber's dignity in a barrage of bitter barbs.
The health and security of the internet should be important to everyone and ought to be discussed apart from the superpower machinations of the US and China.
That is the only way that I can make sense of what happened: These are either the machinations of concealment, expressions of a burgeoning insanity, or both.
All those solemn words asserting the importance of American democratic purpose and know-how triumphing over what was then perceived as "dark" Soviet machinations toward global domination.
Media reports identified the machinations of an unnamed third party only late last week, when a lawyer for Elliott mentioned the matter in a bankruptcy court hearing.
The Republican floundering in D.C. is the all-too-public machinations of a party still trying to organize and develop policy while holding the reins of power.
Kalanick may be a dick, but — much like Littlefinger's machinations to turn the Starks and Lannisters against each other — he certainly did a whole lot of disrupting.
Movement on all things Brexit -- be it the internal machinations of British Prime Minister Theresa May's government or direct talks with the European Union -- has been glacial.
Professor Christine Blasey Ford's allegations against Brett Kavanaugh raise broad and deep questions about gender and power quite orthogonal to the byzantine machinations of Washington party politics.
All of these machinations are made a lot more complicated when Jon tells Arya and Sansa about his true lineage, which Sansa promptly blabs about to Tyrion.
When club 'Insiders' routinely publish news of their employers' machinations in the transfer market, the football industry will surely have reached the pinnacle of inadvertent self-reference.
There's also a fair amount of time devoted to the downstairs staff, although their exploits clearly take a backseat to -- and are less compelling than -- the royal machinations.
Sounds like the Rube Goldbergian machinations of an grad student with too much time and Red Bull on their hands, but no: This is a robot training ground.
True Detective: Riverdale In an effort to figure out the bizarre machinations of last week's Jones kidnapping scheme, F.P. (Skeet Ulrich) tracks down an abandoned Southside High bus.
This, combined with the use of positional terminology like líbero, enganche and the frankly absurd lateral volantes, makes him a luminary in the sphere of recherché tactical machinations.
Those milling around the reception include US Senator Joseph McCarthy — whose political machinations were directly responsible for Sharrer's exile — FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, and Cardinal Francis Spellman.
Hannah describes her falling-out with Caelynn as "the most hostile environment" she has ever experienced, and shares all her fears about her ex-friend's possibly shady machinations.
Boogiepop seems like it'll be a combination of the two great shows this combination has already produced: the action of One-Punch Man along with ACCA's thriller machinations.
So while Microsoft didn't do itself any favors, I'd argue strongly that all these machinations and flailings weren't a response (or weren't only a response) to the iPhone.
Fontana wanted Hill's character to be able to provide a greater insight into the machinations and contusions of humanity than anyone else, so he gave him a wheelchair.
Thieu emerged from the Chennault Affair armed with knowledge of the Nixon campaign's secret machinations, and a belief that "Nixon owed him a great political debt," Bundy wrote.
Spin's machinations come as bike sharing looks to be a big business globally, and the biggest players from China are already expanding into other markets (ahem… the U.S.).
And it would have ensured that the passage of sanctuary city legislation would get more attention -- likely splitting it with the ongoing Senate machinations over health care legislation.
The perception at the time, however, was that Reagan had a "mandate" and it would be wrong or untenable to keep his priorities bottled up with procedural machinations.
All sports drama is contrived but with the one game wild card playoff the machinations of catering to an impatient, short-attention span audience feel especially heavy-handed.
Characters acting incredibly stupid to suit the machinations of the plot, teasing gimmicks from the very beginning, and then the audacity of the Daryl gunshot at the end.
Their diplomatic machinations at UNESCO serves as the backbone of much of the Muslim world's refusal to recognize the Jewish people's historic links to Israel, the Holy Land.
But the show's general interest in behind-the-scenes machinations has essentially caused Everlasting to feel like it's occurring in an entirely different television show half the time.
There were flirtations between the two, both in their machinations and ideologies, but Jets To Brazil utilized the indie rock sound as a weapon against punk's stratified templates.
It meanders, like Lyra's journey, and we are often left with only hints about the machinations of venal politicians and the possibility of magic lingering in the margins.
These machinations weren't simply a matter of horse-trading, but reflect the fundamental nature of the Democrats as a heterogeneous party held together by a belief in government.
Each side engages in political machinations, which include partisan gerrymandering and manipulating the rules of Congress to get their way, stymie their opponents, or deny them office completely.
In 2005, Schumer's machinations led Annette Nazareth to secure a Democratic SEC slot expected to go to James Cox, a Duke University law professor widely respected by reformers.
His privilege has meant he is accustomed to victory, so he does whatever it takes to maintain his winning hand, including orchestrating illegal machinations from behind the scenes.
Such machinations would seem sacrilegious to many sports fans — which is why golf purists are galled by what is happening at some of the sport's most venerated courses.
Years of investment manias and financial machinations that powered the job market have lost potency, exposing longstanding downsides of trade that had previously been masked by illusive prosperity.
His slithery charm reminds us how reluctant Darius has been to buy into these machinations (his horror when Adam explains the optics of a Chantal date is great).
Her new one is called "Nicotine," and like her previous books, it's a mess: anarchic in its plot machinations, scrambled in its themes, mostly shallow in its emotions.
Read more: Kellyanne Conway's political machinations A set of jobs dubbed "senior adviser to the president" has also been near the top of recent White House pecking orders.
But in pretty much every industry, a secret war is raging, and not even your humble mattress is free of the grit and machinations of the capitalist struggle.
CW: Yeah, at Newsweek at the time, had the story and there was whatever sort of behind, editor machinations, whatever, and Drudge broke it ... Drudge brought it out.
We've been firm friends, best buddies, almost-too-intimate chums, through well over a hundred hours of rambling exploration, explosive combat, political machinations, and stuffed animal hanky panky.
But its brilliance lies, not in those machinations, but in its nature as a living document, a slowly shifting piece that could always adapt, and would never die.
House of Cards's sixth season is a dense and convoluted morass of political machinations, betrayal, posturing, death, threats, and juicy subtext between the power players that rule America.
Speeds are steadily increasing despite machinations within the industry, and in fact the average in the U.S. just went north of 50 megabits for the first time ever.
If we want to check the power of Big Sugar, we'd be well served to acknowledge the long record — past as well as present — of the industry's machinations.
Mozart subtly questioned aristocratic hierarchies; Beethoven's sole opera is about the rescue of a political prisoner; Verdi stoked nationalistic fervor and explored the machinations of church and state.
And like the Kennedy assassination and the ongoing machinations of the Cold War, the Apollo 11 mission provided fertile ground for conspiracy theories in the decades to come.
As earnest as the film is in its derivative and ghastly genre machinations, Travolta's performance as Terl delivers on the specificity that makes a cinematic disaster become legend.
I recently asked three senior Conservative politicians at the heart of these machinations which future Britain would be facing in 10 weeks, when the Brexit clock ran out.
Shares of ZTE have been fluctuating wildly amid the machinations between the Trump administration and Congress, and that is likely to continue as the debate proceeds this summer.
You get a sense of that threat more vividly from the men in his command, who have no way to defend themselves against the machinations of a maniac.
Sometimes it is not clear that a Chinese agent is really a "spy", as opposed to a businessman or student caught up in machinations larger than they appreciate.
Mr. Johnson's machinations to achieve Brexit have not added to their popularity there, but the situation is fluid, given the political crosscurrents of Brexit and the independence issue.
He and his sympathizers have blamed his setbacks not on his business decisions but on the machinations of Dublin's bankers and politicians, as well as his former staff.
However ridiculous the machinations that led up to it, the Great Walker Harvest of 2017 was one of the more enjoyable zombie gimmicks the show has yet offered.
The results are likely to be more straightforward and more readily rendered because the process is much simpler than the confusing machinations of the Iowa and Nevada caucuses.
To many in power, the lives of the people who inhabit this corner of the world are mere pawns in their strategic machinations, posturing, and game theory experiments.
The United States and its allies must stop playing defense against Putin's machinations aimed at destabilizing the West, but must work together to anticipate and prevent Russian operations.
These privileged gentrifiers are raising median rents and often, as real-estate developers use the morally dubious machinations of illegal evictions and underhanded buyouts, forcing out longtime tenants.
This week on Gadget Lab, WIRED transportation writer Alex Davies comes on the show to chat about Tesla's latest automotive machinations and what they mean for the company.
Both he and Trump have been upstaged by the political machinations of an intelligence community that has forgotten the limits of its power in the context of democracy.
THE WORKINGS of the solar system were once likened to the machinations of a precise clock, but the orbits of the planets haven't always been so perfectly balanced.
Against that backdrop, the Showtime drama remains plenty watchable with its cloak-and-dagger machinations, but it's hard to envision anyone lamenting that the finale came too soon.
Of course, as Bartlett says, this case is technically separate from the current machinations between the United States and others about how best to proceed with North Korea.
For all members of the C.P.U.S.A., the Soviet Union was the homeland of socialism, the first workers' state, which had to be defended against the machinations of capitalism.
Most of the movie's complicated plot concerns Sahil's machinations to win Sweety, which include opening an acting school so he can spend a bit of time with her.
I know that folks are currently excited about Destiny 2 and the machinations of American politics today, but there is reason to hope for a better, stranger world.
Let it be, though, and it will simply be, facilitating the inner machinations of your subconscious; or perhaps it will simply float by, as ignorable as it is interesting.
The concept gets a "Westworld" twist here, although the reasons behind Chucky's bad behavior are quickly if problematically explained near the outset, through the machinations of a disgruntled employee.
Game of Thrones largely focuses on the machinations of the Starks, the Lannisters, and the other great houses, but there's so much more there beyond who gets to rule.
Which isn't to suggest that Hicks was wholly unknown: Over the last two years, she has become a known figure to those who study the inner machinations of power.
In what looked like a sibling-on-sibling trial between the Stark sisters, a show known for its twists and unexpected machinations tossed in something no one saw coming.
But, despite all his mustache twirling, that Faustian deal requires immense sacrifices that leave him as much a victim of the Hand's machinations as any of the other characters.
Of course, that scheme came crashing down around the president's head when a whistleblower alerted Congress to his machinations and he hurriedly released the aid he'd held without justification.
Plus, at a time when Europe is under great stress and is vulnerable to Vladimir Putin's machinations, NATO represents a practical and symbolic U.S. commitment to a free Europe.
"It's a unique opportunity for a public hearing of the machinations of the art world, which are usually very discreet," said Nicholas M. O'Donnell, an art lawyer in Boston.
Ms Rosenblum and Mr Muirhead: There are plenty of conspiracy theories on the left—centred on dark money, finance, the secret machinations of capitalists, the military and so on.
By combing through thousands of pages of internal documents, Kearns and her team have gained unprecedented clarity into the machinations of the sugar industry during the mid-20th century.
These policy machinations should not be confused with "triangulation" — the modest, symbolic gestures adopted by the Clinton administration in the mid-1990s to show a recognition of conservative values.
The Republican nominee is selling an apocalyptic vision -- the US as an impoverished hellscape beset by bloodthirsty urban anarchists, a terrorist fifth column, and the machinations of globalist elites.
But the beautiful thing about Solo is that it's easy to talk about the film without bothering with the plot machinations, because this is a film focused on adventure.
Even Leo, who has seen it all over eight seasons of Charmed, is unsettled watching his wife's robotic machinations to bring her sisters back (eventually she enlists a Cupid).
They also make it more likely that the prime minister after that will be a rightist who blames the country's problems on the machinations of closet Remoaners and Eurocrats.
Where hipsters are relatively harmless, passive annoyances, here we had people championing for "peaceful ethnic cleansing," or worse, while rocking my unimpeachable, TV-ready cut for their evil machinations.
During the trial, the president has stayed in close touch with the legal team and paid attention to the machinations and performance of his attorneys throughout the televised coverage.
The stubbornness displayed by both North and South Vietnam in future negotiations, and history's analysis of the internal political machinations in Saigon and Hanoi, preclude so ready a judgment.
For instance, if you believe that political machinations have put into jeopardy the rights of a customer, discussions of those issues by somebody who does not can seem virulent.
Summerhill relies not on the machinations of Old Scratch, but on the teachings of Rudolf Steiner, the anthroposophical philosopher who created the biodynamic method of holistic agriculture in 1924.
Now while this theory has largely fallen out of fashion within academic circles, it is still a useful conduit to examine the current political machinations of the present day.
MORE (D-Colo.) have been burning up the phone lines and participating in meet and greets with prospective donors, O'Rourke hasn't gone through the machinations candidates typically participate in.
I understood that so much of school segregation is structural — a result of decades of housing discrimination, of political calculations and the machinations of policy makers, of simple inertia.
We are grateful that this has not stopped incredible reporting about powerful figures, work that has inspired us, and stories that bring to light the machinations of the powerful.
It also exposed the fraught behind-the-scenes political machinations that have led to a deadlock on how to deal with a country still regarded as Europe's weakest link.
For Loach, as for Chaplin, the basic format, recurring from film to film, is that of the decent individual pitted against the system and gradually compressed by its machinations.
The important thing to note behind all these political machinations is that raising taxes on the miners may well become a major campaign issue for the upcoming state election.
The emails give unique insight into the behind-the-scenes machinations of Uber's lobbying arm, which has been accused of steamrolling the regulatory processes of municipalities around the world.
It carries an aura associated with national leaders chosen by their people through democratic process and not by whim, violence or the power machinations of a small, unelected clique.
Eisenhower was not always well served by the rhetoric of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles or the machinations of his brother, Allen Dulles, the director of central intelligence.
There is a villain in this piece, Roy Purdy, to whose thoughts and machinations we are privy, and he is so beyond redemption as to be almost a caricature.
The machinations of Disney's relationship with Square Enix is largely opaque, but one can imagine they didn't want additional Disney properties to be "wasted" on a spin-off title.
But the country's own national assembly called the state-issued cryptocurrency unconstitutional, blockchain industry experts have called it a scam and there are Russian machinations to consider as well.
If you know anything about EVE it's probably the grand space battles and intense political machinations—but what about the men and women behind these vast corps and alliances?
Not coincidentally, almost all of Maddon's machinations have involved young players or Zobrist, who was indoctrinated in his manager's tinkering in his formative years with the Tampa Bay Rays.
"I don't know the machinations of how it happened," said Lawrence Matasar, a Portland lawyer who has represented the ranchers — Dwight L. Hammond, and his son, Steven D. Hammond.
Like most people who saw the war up close, she understood that the violence was not primarily a spontaneous outburst of old hatreds but the result of ethnopolitical machinations.
Part of the appeal of online machinations is that they cost so little, said Wendy R. Weiser, the director of the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice.
Not to initiate a dialogue, or extract an apology — exposing yourself to more of his machinations would be disastrous — but to document what this relationship felt like for you.
Reuters reported this month that the political machinations that led to Mahathir's resignation began several months ago with his knowledge, the aim being to block Anwar from taking power.
At a time when Putin's machinations and motives are the subject of intense interest, Pichugin's plight offers a cautionary tale of Russia's autocracy that is ignored at our peril.
Those machinations could take center stage later this month, once the European Union offers a more definitive response to Mr. Johnson's first proposal for the terms of Britain's departure.
We tend to overthink things when it comes to Trump, ascribing his various hirings, firings and other machinations as part of some grand plan that only he can understand.
If you're a foreign actor with a rooting interest, aren't you more likely to exercise it on behalf of the guy who has shrugged his shoulders about such machinations?
If you're a foreign actor with a rooting interest, aren't you more likely to exercise it on behalf of the guy who has shrugged his shoulders about such machinations?
As we saw with her Lady Macbeth machinations with Tyrell in season one, Joanna is an incredibly skilled reader of people, and uses that skill fully to her advantage.
There is little sense of specificity, and yet the characters and scenarios feel disturbingly identifiable and common — political machinations have become as predictable, impersonal, and codified as ballroom dance.
HBO's foul-mouthed and hilarious tale of a power-hungry vice president and her staff was far more interested in the machinations of realpolitik than in issues or ideals.
And while business and first class fliers pay plenty for the luxuriant leg room, edible food, and huge screens, they too suffer the machinations of an industry that relentlessly profits.
And the culprits are everywhere, with Cruz and his aides struggling to move past the machinations and tactics that wronged him -- never mind to unify behind Trump and endorse him.
I feel like they may have disagreements or whatever, but I think that like organizationally this Nike thing means that the larger machinations of capitalism or standing by anti-racism.
But they seem not to have been chastened by the fiasco, nor by the federal-court judgments against both their voting machinations and gerrymandering, which was recently ruled unconstitutional, too.
The violence of social upheavals during the modern era has generated an endless stream of refugees and migrants, the result of the whims and machinations of empires and nation states.
The Walking Dead used to be really interested in the impact of the extraordinary on the ordinary machinations of life, and for me, that was the show's most compelling aspect.
Campaign finance Legal challenges at all levels, new machinations from lawyers and the composition of the Federal Election Commission have all combined to allow more money in our political process.
At which point, he meets Angelina Jolie and a team of hackers who reveal the cyber machinations of a criminal within the government who uses a worm to steal money.
We found that male political junkies are most likely to support "no deal"; women who are indifferent to day-to-day political machinations are more supportive of Mrs May's agreement.
The tangle of tradition and change, earnestness and pop machinations are on view, along with the makings of a legacy that roots matter and a song can change the world.
Before fans were invested in the complex political machinations of Westeros and all of its epic storylines, they were probably drawn in by all of the titillating sexposition on screen.
But critics in Israel and abroad fear that Netanyahu's machinations aimed at appeasing political partners could have grave consequences internationally, even if the law does not survive likely court challenges.
Those machinations were first made public last year when Thiel was revealed to be bankrolling Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against the former digital media empire for publishing the wrestler's sex tape.
The machinations of modern capitalism are so murky that most people—employees, journalists, politicians—are often left wondering not just what will happen, but what game is even being played.
Live coverage: House holds first public impeachment hearing Trump threatening to fire Mulvaney: report MORE was deeply critical of Mulvaney's involvement in the Trump administration's foreign policy machinations toward Ukraine.
The Evil Within 2 seems to care less about the machinations of its convoluted plotting, and rightly embraces a justification to present the player with some trippy and disturbing visuals.
If Washington and Tehran begin a serious conversation about the nuclear deal and the sanctions, then MbS's regional wars and hostile machinations toward Iran and Shia Islam would have failed.
What I don't imagine is someone who emboldens my base machinations of perpetual victimization, agrees with everything I think and feel, and has never done wrong…ever (or claims so).
He is made to look deliberately intimidating, causing the viewer to feel uncomfortable—just as you do when watching the program, relishing the machinations and crimes the character is committing.
"You're better off being in your own state, running your own race and not being caught up in all the machinations that may take place at the convention," he said.
The subplots include the mysterious abduction of children, people in this world traveling about with spirit animals called daemons and the shadowy machinations of ruling cabal known as the Magisterium.
This is a classically melodramatic kind of irony, in which contrivances of plotting (and the malevolence of individual actors) stand in for the grinding machinations of the world at large.
But he has also seen the specter of political machinations in the strike, and has said that his opponents were using the moment to sow political opposition to his administration.
Civilian governments have always been hamstrung by the machinations of Pakistan's security forces, with their obsession over India, their aggressive investment in nuclear weapons and their double-dealing in Afghanistan.
In 24 hours of ugly machinations, the Trump administration was willing to rip out big elements of the bill and insert big new ones, without regard to substance or ramification.
I marvel that until the very moment that the harvester turns the corner, the corn plants still strive to survive as they ever had, indifferent to the machinations of men.
Trump's GOP allies in the Senate are refusing to reopen investigations and to call witnesses -- despite new evidence of the administration's machinations over Ukraine that have emerged in recent days.
The West Coast power crisis was caused by a toxic combination of too little generation capacity, a chaotic pricing model and the machinations of traders who manipulated the flawed system.
Sullivan said he was not aware of all of the machinations involving Ukraine policy, but made clear that he did know Giuliani was playing an outside role in shaping it.
After a broken heart and the cruel machinations of divorce, I crawled on my emotional knees into a courtroom to defend my ability to keep my children and my home.
"They were about this sense of self in a public space, and the psychological machinations of how one operates in a particular space and time of day," Ms. Simpson said.
But the biggest connection between Rough Night and Wonder Woman is the degree to which both films don't divert from the expected tropes and narrative machinations associated with their genres.
Compared to 12 years ago, is being outspoken something he feels is important—not to fuel the invasive machinations of the press—but because just being visible could help others?
For now, though, Part One offers greater insight into the machinations of Kline's own work — much buzzed about these past five years — than it does into those of climate change.
When Dianne Feinstein, a Democratic senator from California, asked him to inform the committee "if you learn about any machinations to tamper with" Mr Mueller's probe, Mr Wray replied simply: "Understood".
Political drama is all over TV lately, from the Beltway machinations of Scandal and Madame Secretary to tales of intrigue like The Americans and 24: Legacy to Sean Spicer's press briefings.
At Wednesday's Democratic town hall in New Hampshire, CNN's Anderson Cooper asked Clinton about the term, which she first coined in 1998 to describe the machinations behind the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
But the Kremlin, which controls the media over here, appears to have calculated that no good will come of watching, or listening, or commenting on the machinations of current US politics.
But there have been some half-cooked theories about a third-party spoiler winding up in the Oval Office via some of the more obscure machinations mandated by the 12th Amendment.
Even this rare and theoretically exciting play—a superstar getting owned on a dribble drive by a role player—is rendered in muted colors amongst the soulless machinations of the Spurs.
Meanwhile, members of "the state," far from carrying out the efficient machinations imagined by Orwell, are themselves flummoxed by, and often the targets of, malicious fakes (like the "Drunk Pelosi" video).
The behind-the -scenes machinations to fill them aren't exactly top of mind for most in Silicon Valley, but they shouldn't be the last thing the region is thinking about, either.
But within hours — thanks largely to internet users' (mostly) tongue-in-cheek obsession with secret Illuminati machinations — his tweet showing son Vaughn modeling the new unis was a bonafide viral sensation.
In contrast to the integrity of these women, Trump's own machinations have become utterly transparent, as he and his sidekick Rudy Giuliani feebly try to deflect evidence of their apparent corruption.
The machinations of these men played a large part in ensuring the replacement of the Republic by the Empire, under Caesar's adopted son, Octavian (later Augustus) and his less illustrious successors.
While some have called it sexist for its "token female" dynamic and depictions of caregiving, the series manages to explores its characters' motivations and machinations with equal depth, gravity, and humanity.
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's prime minister said on Thursday he was struggling to understand Britain's Brexit machinations and was surprised its political system could not find a way out of the crisis.
Ogles, who lives in Alabama, said Guggenheim's financial "machinations" left the insurers in "hazardous" financial shape, locking investors like himself into poorly performing investments while letting Guggenheim promote its self-interests.
Now that both Betty and Ethel's eyes are open about the Sisters' disturbing machinations, they capture Sister Woodhouse (Beverley Breuer) to grill her about Gryphons & Gargoyles, Hiram, and the Gargoyle King.
It's telling that we learned more about the behind-the-scenes machinations to build self-driving cars from the Waymo-Uber trial than we did from any publicly disclosed safety report.
The Tories' agonies over Brexit not only make it more likely that the next prime minister will be a hard-leftist who blames Britain's problems on the machinations of international capital.
The love triangle between herself, her husband Eddie Fisher and the actress Elizabeth Taylor more than rivalled the machinations of Brad, Jennifer and Angelina — a comparison the star herself once made.
That's why the present machinations of meetings, statements, rumors and speculation are likely to continue for some time as the producers try to engineer a price and then keep it there.
He needs to avoid a second ballot, where Ted Cruz's Nixon-esque machinations could cost him, so he's putting pressure on the delegates to vote for him on the first ballot.
All of which probably makes this the best time to rewatch the entire season for a quick refresh on all the byzantine plot machinations and character turns — but let's be honest.
Arens, who has served as defense minister, foreign minister and ambassador to the United States, and is one of Netanyahu's early political mentors, said the machinations would have far-reaching repercussions.
Beyond the names on the current list, we're sure that many more tech workers are deeply opposed to some the more alarming machinations of the Trump administration than they'll let on.
Meanwhile, Earn and other men in lockup are entertained by the humorous machinations of a mentally ill individual, a lockup regular, until the man spits toilet water onto a police officer.
So expect romance and desire, secrets, betrayals, and political machinations, also matriarchal owl cults, a diverse cast of complicated characters, some boys kissing, and most of all, a giant killer bird.
But "Marseille" is most reminiscent of "Boss," Starz's blustery Kelsey Grammer vehicle about the over-the-top machinations of a corrupt Chicago mayor, some of whose story lines this series echoes.
Democrats are leading with two long-time State Department officials who had front-row seats to the strange machinations of Trump's pressure campaign to get Ukraine to launch politically helpful investigations.
This time, it was the machinations of London's Metropolitan police force, familiar to many young black artists in the UK who seem like they're about to climb clear of their beginnings.
If a story is told well, if its history seems consistent, then the machinations putting it into place can be temporarily overlooked or turned into a fun story of their own.
Keeping the modest and insignificant oil sales to Canada is a more important signal to future international buyers that Aramco is not subject to the same foreign policy machinations of Riyadh.
That's why the present machinations of meetings, statements, rumours and speculation are likely to continue for some time as the producers try to engineer a price and then keep it there.
Griese said he did not concern himself with the roster machinations — whether Tampa Bay would keep Luke McCown in addition to Johnson — because he was so immersed in his own preparation.
On August 15, as America obsessed over the aftermath of the Charlottesville protests and the ongoing machinations within the White House, Indian and Chinese troops were clashing high in the Himalayas.
Before he leaves, Jon Snow visits the family crypt, where he does something that too few people have done in six seasons of Littlefinger's creepy, fawning, obvious machinations—he wallops him.
Although Raboy at times becomes mired in Marconi's corporate machinations and personal life, he is especially adroit at portraying how Marconi was swept up in the modern world he helped create.
Overlaying the geostrategic clash between Saudi Arabia and Iran are the machinations of other regional and foreign powers that are using local radical groups to achieve their self-interested political ends.
May's own side were more generous, despite many of them having been involved in back-room machinations to oust her and having already begun campaigning in private to succeed her. Mrs.
The controversial lawmaker left Russia for Ukraine in 2016 after losing his parliamentary re-election bid and amid accusations of fraud, which he said were the machinations of his political opponents.
Mr. Putin's machinations in the Sea of Azov, he said, signaled the Kremlin's determination not only to cement its hold on Crimea, but also to parade its defiance of the West.
Granted, Ayón was not disclosing information dangerous to the state in the manner of Edward Snowden, nor was she laying bare the machinations of powerful elites like the artist Mark Lombardi.
The story's momentum flounders occasionally, with a little too much of Bob spinning in circles waiting on Livy and a couple of wooden plot machinations, but the ending is pure enchantment.
The decision enraged Mr. Corker, who called his party's deference to Mr. Trump "cultish," but only after the machinations over the amendment all but eclipsed the defense policies in the bill.
Mr. Trump's capricious approach to politics was destabilizing for Republicans up and down the ballot, leaving candidates exposed to the president's whims and grievances and the machinations of White House advisers.
The Port Authority has been mired in scandal since at least 2013, when the Fort Lee lane-closing scheme exposed political machinations by appointees of New Jersey's then-governor, Chris Christie.
Most of these financial machinations were carried out through offshore companies on Cyprus, where Mr. Mikhelson and Mr. Timchenko held their investments in Sibur and did business with several Cypriot banks.
President Xi Jinping and other senior officials are attending an annual retreat at Beidaihe, a beach resort east of Beijing, where the political machinations are more intense this year than usual.
Yovanovitch was caught in a web of alleged machinations to push Ukrainian officials to publicly investigate Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden's family for Trump's domestic political benefit.
Instead, executive branch machinations in the Times report indicate that O.M.B. lawyers were working up an argument that Mr. Trump's role as commander in chief would allow him to override Congress.
BUCHAREST/BRUSSELS, Oct 31 (Reuters) - The machinations of Brexit and a political tug-of-war in Bucharest risk extending a policymaking vacuum in the European Union beyond the start of December.
As a result of all these complex machinations, if the pick winds up in the 1 spot, or between 10 and 13, the 76ers will get it (a 97 percent chance).
One popular theory is that their music tends to be particularly introspective, emotional, empowering and hyper-aware of the machinations of perfection and conformity that often drive the K-pop industry.
"There are many permutations to these machinations, too many to mention here, but both Disney and Comcast want this asset so I bet a bidding war does ensue," he said Tuesday.
Buhari also signaled policy stability when he re-appointed as central bank governor Godwin Emefiele, a controversial figure for his first-term foreign exchange machinations to shore up the naira currency.
Rounding off the list is Molly Matalon, a recent SVA graduate who quickly garnered attention after graduating for her photographic works exploring femininity, desire, and the intricate machinations of human intimacy.
"They sinned sexually, even though they can rightly in one sense be denominated as victims of Patrick&aposs machinations," the elders wrote in a letter circulated among themselves, according to court filings.
But before we dive into the truly insane machinations of this week's Game of Thrones premiere, let me just point you to the season 7 season finale recap for a little refresher.
It's believed the first two have already happened with the treacherous actions of Mirri Maz Duur (Mia Soteriou) in season 1 and the treasonous machinations of Doreah (Roxanne McKee) in season 2.
And some readers were disturbed by how quickly the focus went from the unexpected death of a major public figure to the unsavory political machinations of naming a new Supreme Court justice.
This means they're among the most prolific predators on Earth, and likely an integral contributor to the intricate machinations of marine life—a fact that scientists are only now waking up to.
Here's how the game developer describes it: Until now, the myths, mysteries, and machinations of the Destiny universe were found hidden throughout the worlds – enticing threads that hinted at a greater tapestry.
The 48-minute concept album predates even the original game's 2014 release, though it's been kept out of public view until now as a result of legal obstacles and indecipherable business machinations.
From the very first shot of its opening credits, Game of Thrones has visually and thematically stressed that the machinations of its characters and plot are all part of an actual game.
A video link between the leader of our nation and the populace could be great news, offering us unfettered access and transparency to the machinations of our government from its highest office.
As thrilling as a clash of titans like Warriors-Cavs can be, a nearly equal joy in NBA basketball is the potpourri of endless off-court machinations, petty squabbles, and frivolous storylines.
"Dry Powder", a darkly amusing new work from Sarah Burgess, directed for the Public Theatre by Thomas Kail (who also directed "Hamilton", a popular musical), considers the cunning machinations of the 1%.
If Wells doesn't show up next week, mark my words ABC, we will stop writing 1,400-word recaps of your twisted show and exposing all of its machinations for a global audience.
The legal procedures may be foreign to American viewers, but the Machiavellian machinations and moral ambiguity — which Peter Moffat, the drama's creator, culled from his own experiences at the bar — are universal.
Considering Saudi Arabia's history of funding Islamic extremists, its "assistance" in Syria doesn't much support Williams's general argument that such machinations are necessary to preserve stability in the Middle East and elsewhere.
Just three more days to catch up with the machinations of Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) and company — and ponder a different sort of ugly political climate — before Season 4 drops on Friday.
What is the point of this band—strange machinations and Zodiac-level diversions included—in an era where media culture tells us to embrace our childish aesthetics because everyone is a star?
All of the machinations from the White House, the one-party swampland of the Republican Congress and diabolical plots against American democracy from the Kremlin cannot defeat them — if only they vote.
And, also suffice it to say, such machinations are unlikely to faze an experienced CEO like Immelt, which is one of the attractions of him, said numerous sources close to the deliberations.
David M. O'Brien, a scholar and author who dissected the Supreme Court's internal machinations and ideological dynamics, treating it as a political institution as much as a legal one, died on Dec.
There are plenty of machinations involved in warning Murtagh: Jamie precipitates Fanning's hernia surgery, catches a ride with George Washington, and sends Fergus to Murtagh as he races back to the theater.
Her testimony brought to life in dramatic fashion the financial machinations that prosecutors have been sketching out since Mr. Manafort's trial on 18 charges of bank and tax fraud opened on Tuesday.
The political machinations surrounding the Communist Party's National Congress that will convene in Beijing in mid-October to select new members of the ruling elite are at the top of his agenda.
As I was reading, I noticed that the horrific incidents of lynching, mob violence, and state complicity in federal machinations detailed in the article occurred primarily in the north of the country.
The coast-to-coast machinations have left a multibillion-dollar industry, after first being hammered into a defensive crouch, scrambling to persuade politicians and the public of the wholesomeness of college sports.
Her machinations speak to a desire to cement the legacy of the firm that bears her name so it won't come undone like many black institutions — like Greenwood — have throughout American history.
His opponents believe that Conde, who became Guinea's first democratically elected leader in 2010, is becoming increasingly authoritarian and will follow other African leaders who have extended their rule through political machinations.
The internal machinations of Israel's government have been dominating the country's TV and newspapers for days, with many observers believing that Netanyahu was attracted by the prospect of an early general election.
After weeks of political machinations and handwringing, it is finally official: the Electoral College electors finally cast their "ballots" and Donald J. Trump will be the next president of the United States.
Karoui's legal troubles have reinforced the perception among his critics that he is a self-serving opportunist, and among his supporters that he is the victim of political machinations by influential rivals.
And, also suffice it to say, such machinations are unlikely to phase a experience CEO like Immelt, which is one of the attractions of him, said numerous sources close to the deliberations.
Thanks to the machinations of the local art scene, there seemed to be more creative ideas in one corner of this place than many of the parties in Berlin have all together.
You need heart to see through the political and business machinations that Tate faced when Ronda Rousey was still on top and continue to fight for her own place in the UFC.
The show features colorful characters, sharp dialogue, and complex political machinations, but what really sets it apart from other sci-fi TV is the realistic way that it handles gravity and orbital trajectories.
But these arcane machinations seem a long way off as Trump, on the road again, alternately soothes his ego and stokes his base, churning through an updated, triumphal version of his campaign doggerel.
Unfortunately, we come to find out Paul's insidious machinations have come to affect his latest romantic partner, Jenny (One Tree Hills's Bethany Joy Lenz), as is the case with so many abusive men.
Dwelling on plot machinations isn't the best way to delve into Suspiria, however, because Guadagnino and screenwriter David Kajganich are less interested in the characters and storylines than in the atmosphere and mood.
So, to see the machinations behind it — the never-ending takes, the adding of the water bottle, Wiseau's commitment to "real human behavior" — gives depth to what, on the surface, appears purely trash.
He also keeps a wary eye on the machinations of Paul Kagame, the Rwandan president who was once a comrade-in-arms but is now a bitter rival for influence in the region.
Who, at this critical juncture, doesn't see through Littlefinger's machinations, as he crouches in doorways, glowering like the cut-rate Cromwell he's become (although, as Tyrion reminds us, no one glowers like Jorah)?
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As the title suggests, it's about the machinations and bureaucracies of a brothel in late-18th-century London where, according to the opening credits, one in five women make a living selling sex.
The lack of attention paid to Cersei's machinations and Euron's character had reduced both of them to one-dimensional villains whose jabs at Jon and Daenerys feel unearned and out of left field.
In recent years, the success of the HBO series has seen George R.R. Martin's blood-spattered tale of murder and machinations grow from a cult fantasy hit to a global pop-culture phenomenon.
So that precedent goes against all of the machinations by Trump and his lawyers—the argument that "I can't do it because I'm so busy as president"—that has been tried and failed.
But "Love & Friendship" is not the average regency story, and if it can't be thought feminist, it is an unsentimental look at the machinations women employed to wield power in a limited sphere.
It makes sense that Donald Trump's America would be just the country for these old men—that the machinations and endless feuds of the tabloid undead would crowd and then devour everything else.
Rogow said that the conversations between Stone, Credico, Corsi and Trump's associates show that the men were engaging in "political machinations" related to the 2016 campaign and were trying to play each other.
"It offers a glimpse at the kind of machinations that went into shaping a candidate with national ambitions," said Brigid Callahan Harrison, a professor of political science and law at Montclair State University.
So many of Rodriguez's machinations with the Yankees were painfully contrived, especially the 10-year, $275 million deal that tethered him to the team past the point where the marriage was played out.
Mark Rylance stars as Thomas Cromwell, the blacksmith's son who rose to become the closest adviser to King Henry VIII (Damian Lewis), in this opulent BBC tale about machinations in the Tudor court.
While the majority of Americans may not pay much attention to the details of disaster funding, when told about these pathetic, amateurish machinations by both parties, it furthers their cynicism about elected officials.
Which means that Malzahn didn't really earn this contract extension, but thanks to the machinations of his high-powered agent, Jimmy Sexton, and the pressured realities of SEC recruiting, he got it anyway.
Part of what made Mass Effect so appealing was that it dropped players into a fully realized science fiction universe, complete with complex political machinations and a web of long-simmering alien rivalries.
"There are many permutations to these machinations, too many to mention here, but both Disney and Comcast want this asset so I bet a bidding war does ensue," Cramer said at the time.
And Richard Loncraine's "Richard III" (Saturday), starring Ian McKellen as the hunchbacked royal schemer, remains one of the most fruitful modernizations, placing 15th-century political machinations in the context of 20th-century fascism.
We need to be vigilant not to prompt an unprovoked escalation in Ukraine or legitimate Mr. Putin's shrouded machinations by deploying our own impulsively — whether in cyberspace or other types of covert action.
Todd VanDerWerff: I would agree with you that more than a few of the movie's metaphors fall flat, particularly if you were at least somewhat cognizant of Cheney's machinations back in the 2000s.
Eric is a man with iron tastebuds and a Ron Swanson-esque vibe, both of which he has successfully combined to great effect thanks to the peculiar fascinations and machinations of the internet.
Guided by Tina Brown and Dyana Winkler, who are first-time directors, the film details the insidious machinations that have kept black and white skaters apart, dating back to the Jim Crow era.
Immigration officials protested, but it opened the door on long-secret Cold War machinations by U.S. intelligence agencies to recruit and shelter Hitler's top scientists and reliably anti-Communist Eastern European Nazi henchmen.
At this point in the race, Sanders has been bested not only by the machinations of the Democratic Party's establishment and a complicit press but by the total ambivalence of the Democratic electorate.
In blue states Democrats simplify voting; in red states Republicans suppress it with a long inventory of machinations: purge the rolls, convolute registration procedures, disenfranchise felons and cut back polling times and places.
Mr. Kelly has told Mr. Trump's top staff that he will not tolerate Mr. Bannon's shadowland machinations, according to a dozen current and former Trump aides and associates with knowledge of the situation.
May's weekend machinations to bring the DUP back into line, with their costly confidence and supply commitment given in 2017, are rumored to include giving the DUP a greater say in Brexit negotiations.
Furst's clever machinations gain real momentum in the second half of the novel, where Ricard and his new companion, Leila, become embroiled in a plot involving Polish laborers, torpedoes and possibly deadlier weapons.
Susan Collins of Maine, who announced last week she would run for reelection, has been more circumspect than many of her colleagues, even amid pressure from Democrats over the machinations of a trial.
Monday's actions by Jackson come amid continued speculation that Trump will render all the complicated legal machinations moot by granting a pardon to the Republican operative, whose prosecution the president has repeatedly criticized.
She has not nominated a secretary of state to serve as her lieutenant governor, a decision that could trigger internal machinations within the ruling New Progressive Party, which supports statehood for Puerto Rico.
The machinations of how the rules will be enforced remain vague, but team owners sent a clear message — both to the public and to one another — that the current system was not working.
A day of entwined strands of Russian-related machinations Thursday encapsulates why Trump seems fated never to emerge from the ever deepening, almost operatic drama that grips the White House like a vice.
The machinations within the ANC are an ironic recycling of history for Zuma, who engineered the ouster of former president Thabo Mbeki in 2008 shortly after taking over the helm of the ANC.
California is free to pick a side in the public debate and to prioritize messages about abortion, and the machinations of the state provide an effective means for it to disseminate such messages.
It had an excellent twist in store that changed everything you ever thought the Clone Wars were, and some meaty political machinations that mirrored the War on Terror age in which it arrived.
Such machinations are common when two countries are navigating diplomatic challenges, and, often, extracurricular activities with private citizens are part of the strategy, even if they are not apparent to the American public.
Put more accurately: Trump didn't want people -- even those who worked closely with him -- to know he had something to do with all of the machinations in response to the Trump Tower meeting.
It's a fleeting bliss-out in a series that knows how to bring the weird but has too often neglected to do so amid its blaster zapping, machinations and Oedipal stressing and storming.
That he can still be so devoted—and unbelievably skilled—at refining his practice after all these years gives the precise, hypnotic machinations of "Qwazars" a hard-earned insight in its very fibers.
Mr. Putin has maintained his popularity in large part by persuading Russians that he is the guarantor of their national greatness against the machinations of a West forever conniving to keep Russia down.
But as a meditation on how class dynamics shape the emotions of the people who live with them, it's stellar — especially because it's cleverly couched in the machinations of a modern ghost story.
The events of the end of Midsommar are fairly straightforward, even though there's a lot that happens offscreen (like most of the deaths, for instance, and clearly some Harga machinations and plotting as well).
A sickly, small man who suffered epilepsy from an early age, Madison always seemed more comfortable as someone who focused on the machinations of government as opposed to being out in front, Washington-style.
The machinations surrounding the stars of the 1980s, especially ones as massive as Tom Cruise, were no less intricate or manipulative, but they were more effective in erasing any evidence of a PR campaign.
Walt's (Jessica Jones villain David Tennant) birthday party is a claustrophobic, suffocating time — mostly due to the ultra type-A machinations of his mommy blogger wife, Kathryn (Jennifer Garner) — and that's the whole point.
The process to restore the newspaper involved even more Dexter's Lab-esque machinations, including an electrostaticlyly charged table with an adjustable downward "pull" that lets restorers jigsaw torn pages back together before scanning them.
Obviously, hyper-convoluted plot machinations can work if the film itself has enough momentum to propel the audience through it all, or if there's some larger, overriding theme or sentiment tying it all together.
As someone from the provinces, he didn't understand the machinations of Manila corruption, he said, but he explained how the official money meant to expose drug operatives just ended up in police officers' pockets.
It's often depicted as a place where people can start over, but Pedreira's book has a very different view: one where the Moon's inhabitants simply can't escape from the Earth's ideological and political machinations.
Up until "Manhunter," Hiram's machinations only pushed Varchie to become even more fixated on each other, though 99% of their conversations revolve around either their devotion to one another or their explosive sexual chemistry.
That's the grand equation of "Eastwatch," episode 5 of this seventh season of Game of Thrones, a scattershot clockwork of updates and minor machinations, paltry plot pivots and pirouettes that had our heads spinning.
The album's last track, "We Hide," recalls some of the more robotic machinations of bands like Preoccupations, showcasing hip-hop hand claps, Fribourg's monotone delivery, and the interplay of probing guitars with atmospheric synths.
The normally irrelevant machinations of failed Security Council resolutions has real meaning, when China's abstention effectively isolates Russia as the only permanent member of the Security Council that quashed the resolution from going forward.
But the one I haven't been able to get out of my mind is Extremis — especially this week, watching the machinations and melee around congressional efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act.
Although La Roja beat Italy 4-0 in the Euro 2012 final, the sense still lurks in Spain that Italy are their bogey team; that Spanish flair is somehow susceptible to Italy's defensive machinations.
Despite the ups and downs, expectations around tax policy are now back to where they were a year ago, showing how quickly political machinations can yield to facts on the ground for business owners.
Their inheritance leaves them vulnerable to the machinations of Count Olaf, who adopts a variety of disguises (and commits a variety of murders) to try to gain control of the children and their money.
In any event, aides insist Kasich does not have his finger in the political winds, and that his machinations are based purely on what he thinks is right for his party and the country.
"With the political machinations, it becomes difficult for Gordhan to put something on the table that says we are re-engineering the economy for a different path," Investment Solutions chief economist Lesiba Mothata said.
"Our view is that all of the machinations that are taking place are Jacob Zuma's action in trying to gain access to Treasury ... We can't sit back and allow that to happen," he said.
As the episode progresses he works hard to woo her to the label, over the machinations of her meddling and violent manager and uncle, Shyne, whose criminal enterprises she helps maintain as head accountant.
The Musical' (Sunday) Esther, the young queen of Persia who saved her people, the Jews, from the evil machinations of her husband's minister, Haman, has always been the undisputed star of the Purim holiday.
What I had to say addressed the pervasive power of male privilege and its machinations, and was part of the backdrop for the article Colin Moynihan wrote for the New York Times last January.
It was a time in which the erosion of moral taboos in the swinging '60s and the cloak-and-dagger machinations of the Cold War combined to produce a steady supply of dramatic trials.
By my count, 999 remains the best entry in the series, largely because it didn't have to deal with the broader plot machinations the sequels introduced, but Zero Time Dilemma is still damn fun.
Her hand has been strengthened by machinations in Parliament in recent days, as lawmakers have tried to wrest control of the Brexit process, to inconclusive results, from a government that has no clear majority.
As a former Senate staffer, O'Donnell takes a practitioner's delight in the machinations of politics: He finds, and manages to convey, excitement in things like the movement of delegates from one camp to another.
Presented with an agitated camera and a bare minimum of subtitles, "A Prayer Before Dawn" adheres to neither the familiar beats of the boxing movie nor the claustrophobic machinations of the typical prison drama.
The senior aide I spoke with said that this also could be one of the issues that the new committee to modernize Congress might look at — are these procedural machinations really worth keeping around?
All these developments seem certain to further catapult the news cycle away from the crisis in the Middle East back to the machinations of an administration that behaves as if it is beyond reproach.
Drink He's no seasonal superstar like Scrooge, but let's spare a thought for Krook, the unfortunate rag-and-bottle man in "Bleak House," Charles Dickens's great novel of the law and its tortuous machinations.
Or, as Daria Kaleniuk, the executive director of the Anti-Corruption Action Center—a leading light among Ukraine's anti-corruption figures—added this month, there's one "ultimate beneficiary" of Giuliani and Trump's machinations: Russia.
"Clearly she has machinations for higher office and will do anything to continue rising, even if it eventually means throwing President Trump and his administration under the bus," said one former White House official.
"If you say that people don't pay it anyway, and you're going through all these machinations and tricks and lawyers to get out of it, then you're imposing unnecessary costs on society," he said.
They want to be seen as temples to the creative spirit untouched by the ruthless machinations of capital, a blameless zone of public service, but a quick scan of their patrons reveals the truth.
Long before Republicans began attributing every negative development to the machinations of the "deep state," they were insisting that global warming was a gigantic hoax perpetrated by a vast global cabal of corrupt scientists.
Instead, the show finds its pleasure in endless business machinations, in the ways that members of the Roy family compete with each other for dominance and the ways their competition has scarred them irreparably.
Sources told Axios' Jonathan Swan that Bolton was the most prolific note-taker at the top level of the White House and probably has more details than any witness about Trump's machinations on Ukraine.
At a time when politicians are playing on our fears to manipulate votes, we must be even more vigilant than usual to ensure that we do not fall victim to such tropes and machinations.
Then as now, Americans fretted not only over the Kremlin's machinations but also over the ways in which a pervasive new medium was simultaneously bringing people closer while turning living rooms into isolated bubbles.
"When your tools are designed to treat you as a mere tenant, rather than an owner, you're subject to the whims, machinations, and unforeseeable risks of the landlord from whom you rent," Doctorow noted.
You realize this isn't a cat and mouse detective show in a traditional sense, where the lust for catching the killer is purely intellectual, like Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock mimicking the mental machinations of Moriarty.
While some shows are happy to keep you entertained with endless soapy, lovable nonsense (see: Riverdale) or explosive, sometimes literally fiery machinations (hello, Game Of Thrones), Westworld isn't exactly focused on your pop cultural pleasure.
His character, who was originally conceived as a white detective, gives the show an opportunity to explore the machinations of racism in three different time periods — the 1980s, the '90s, and finally in the 2010s.
For a family that has built a reputation on being just like us, except richer and better looking and more charming, Kendall has seemed sort of above the fray of day-to-day celebrity machinations.
Mr Jones has, naturally, seen machinations in this too: the decisions by Apple, swiftly followed by others, to remove his material from their platforms feed with comic precision into his conspiracy theorising about mainstream media.
All three segments, plus Harriet's protestor story, are intertwined in a complicated web of intrigue, and the key players in each sphere must come together to unlock the full extent of the machinations at work.
Sansa's survival is particularly unusual among the characters because throughout the show, she's chosen to utilize a kind of strategic passivity rather than taking an active role in the power grabs and machinations around her.
The people are starting to get wise to the machinations of the New Founding Fathers; they hold anti-Purge love-ins and speak openly about how insurance companies and the NRA profit off the mayhem.
And while oil's recent moves may seem moderate, the commodity's flirtations with the $50 per barrel mark give the daily machinations of oil prices great moment, according to RJO Futures senior market strategist Phillip Streible.
The most significant of these came in 2008 when the machinations of then-president, Robert Koncharian, to shoehorn his ally Serzh Sargsyan into power led to mass marches and, later, the death of eight protestors.
Detailing the reasons would give away too much of a multistranded plot that ties together serial murder, murder for hire, real-estate machinations, family melodrama and the usual squad-room clichés (whiteboards, forensics, expository dialogue).
EPA has not just failed to offer a credible argument for why it has abandoned the assessments for formaldehyde and nine other chemicals – it is apparently working to obscure its machinations from the public eye.
Owing to machinations of the area's then-monarch, this did not happen, and since then India, in contravention of UN resolutions, has denied Kashmiris the right to have a plebiscite and decide their own fate.
Basically the history of the McCarthy era — the paranoia, the agency's sinister yet amateur machinations, local politics, informants, the suppression of civil rights — is thrown at you as raw, inchoate data, as enveloping, exasperating minutia.
The Bluths are giving themselves the Family of the Year Award to earn some goodwill toward Lindsay's congressional run, but as usual, they behave just the opposite, and the family-on-family machinations are dizzying.
The lineup machinations may not have mattered much on Wednesday, as Bartolo Colon, the Mets' starter, allowed six runs in four and a third innings, including two home runs to the Cubs slugger Anthony Rizzo.
Even liberal critics of the Republican Party who believe Mr. Trump was an inevitable result of the party's political machinations have to concede he is in a different category than the nominees who preceded him.
The offstage machinations took place two days after Ms. Kelly suggested, during an on-air round-table discussion, that it was appropriate for white people to dress in blackface as part of their Halloween costumes.
Given Mr. Crowley's powerful role as the head of the Queens Democratic Party, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez sees political machinations afoot, and she accused the congressman on Twitter of mounting a third-party challenge against her.
Strip away the newness and novelty of the technological tactics and you find the same old machinations of military and capitalist power, which no plucky hacktivist can disrupt without risking their life, freedom and reputation.
Significant money was doled out to Amar'e Stoudemire by the Knicks, as well to Joe Johnson (Atlanta) and David Lee (Golden State), but none of the other deals that summer could compare to Miami's machinations.
He's a hardcore vigilante deeply traumatized by the death of his parents who's created a billionaire playboy persona named "Bruce Wayne" to serve as a frontman for the financial machinations that make Batman's activities viable.
Public fury over corruption and political machinations galvanized the 2013-14 street protests that toppled President Viktor F. Yanukovych, and has since sapped support, both inside Ukraine and abroad, for his successor, Petro O. Poroshenko.
He learned about Mr. Trump's conduct "in the course of official interagency business," according to the complaint, which was dotted with footnotes about machinations in Kiev and reinforced with public comments by senior Ukrainian officials.
Yet generations before them fought to fuse anticolonial nationalism and protection from American machinations to liberal democracy — not the one-party Fidelista dictatorship of Communism or the relentless ideological homogeneity characteristic of right-wing Trumpista.
So this time, mused the Kremlinologists, the president was starting his machinations four years in advance and keeping them sufficiently confusing to blunt resistance, head off an incipient succession struggle and keep everyone off balance.
"There are many permutations to these machinations, too many to mention here, but both Disney and Comcast want this asset so I bet a bidding war does ensue," the "Mad Money " host said on Tuesday.
But the machinations of social media virality have only further scrambled the way we value each other's creative output, perhaps because, more than ever before, that output is necessarily a capitalist product from the jump.
But this weakness reflects his boss's extraordinary incompetence at least as much as it reflects the machinations of the Resistance — though, of course, this isn't something Trump's attorney general can be exactly expected to admit.
Hardy's Eddie Brock lands in this situation thanks to the machinations of mad billionaire scientist Carlton Drake ("The Night Of's" Riz Ahmed), who, shades of Elon Musk, has been using his fortune to explore space.
"Zarif is gone -- good riddance," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said only hours into the drama, revealing his inability to understand the political machinations in the country he defines as an existential threat to Israel.
And yet he has been driven to this despair not by any awareness of his own faults, but by the machinations of a subplot that has encapsulated a lot of this season's problems with race.
Adapted from the graphic novel of the same name, The Death of Stalin alternates between wildly funny set-pieces, hilarious machinations among Stalin acolytes vying for power, and unsettling scenes of extrajudicial arrests and murder.
And some of them are wholly unparalleled in humanizing the challenges America faces in 22016 — with regard to education, race, domestic violence, policing, young people, the free press, the machinations of political elites, and more.
The international community-led peace framework agreement demands the demilitarization of the capital, with only token forces to be left in place to maintain order and protect the feuding political chiefs from each other's machinations.
According to Blackstone, it's helpful to have research into gendered experiences because it provides quantifiable data on discrimination and injustice, which are often made invisible or denied via the political machinations of powers that be.
If I spent half as much time philosophizing about the inscrutable machinations of the human mind as I do fussing over my skin, I suspect I'd be unstoppable, a kind of 21st-century Bergson with boobs.
The machinations of the veteran members of the Order could finally spill beyond the boundaries of their occult temple, causing their powers to be stretched too thin as they cover up murders and grotesque student injuries.
They will distill all of the convoluted procedural machinations and arcane rules down to a simple tale: the establishment snatching away listeners' hard-earned victory, because it will never allow a true conservative to be elected.
If we, Black Detroiters, do not carve out a future for ourselves in this rapidly changing metropolis, we will be carved out of the city itself, or coopted into the imaginations and machinations of its developers.
To a casual observer, it might look like President Trump has been busy dismantling the many machinations of government, and it is true that regulatory policy has moved swiftly in a direction pleasing to most conservatives.
The strange thing about the Echo Chamber theory is that it takes something fairly banal (the fact that prominent Democrats and liberals are critical of Trump) and turns it into a narrative of secretive sinister machinations.
Just when the machinations of these two rapacious clans begin to make your blood boil, Foyster switches to a straightforward biographical treatment of John Charles, third earl of Portsmouth, who deserves our attention and our sympathies.
Clinton's campaign spent heavily to turn out voters in these urban cores, especially in places like Miami, Charlotte, Philadelphia and Las Vegas, according to a senior campaign strategist, who asked for anonymity to discuss internal machinations.
In the hands of a lesser novelist, the intricate tangle of lives at the center of "Late in the Day" might feel like just such a self-satisfied riddle or, at best, like sly narrative machinations.
Biden's huge Super Tuesday win couldn't have happened without the machinations of Democratic Party leaders, who worked to get Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg out of the race and lined up a series of key endorsements.
Where "Traitor" was closely focused on Baru, her own thoughts and machinations, "Monster" opens up new characters' points of view, new framing materials and flashbacks, adding multiple dimensions to the first book's initial game of chess.
Jones, 20 years younger than Brady and with 73 fewer years of N.F.L. experience, had thrown two interceptions and at times looked unsettled in the face of the confusing machinations of a Bill Belichick defensive scheme.
He gained a reprieve from their hostility with his machinations on the Supreme Court, winning the respect of conservatives for preserving the seat for Mr. Trump to fill even as he faced harsh criticism from Democrats.
Second, the Palestinians are beset not by one antagonist, but rather by three concentric and interconnected rings of them: Israel; the surrounding Arab nations; and the political machinations of external powers, most notably the United States.
"I want to commend the people of Zimbabwe for rejecting the machinations by those with unbridled political ambitions who are even prepared to use violence, divisions and disunity and violent demonstrations to acquire power," he said.
The Republican establishment proves helpless against the hijacking of the party, the mainstream media prove ineffectual against the tide of fake news and the political system proves vulnerable to the machinations of a sinister foreign government.
Far from steadying the crown, as Prime Minister Tony Blair did when the queen misjudged the public mood after the death of Princess Diana in 1997, today's politicians are drawing her into their own frantic machinations.
The machinations of a ghost may always be foreign to me, but I'm constantly baffled by one particular behavior that's become increasingly popular, to the extent that it's garnered a supernatural name of its own ("haunting").
The citizen's responsibility to assess the facts and calibrate what politicians claim is not a burden — it is integral to the liberty a free people should cherish and fiercely guard against the machinations of true tyrants.
For Reuters photographer Stefan Wermuth most work days are spent a short stroll away from the Thames, covering the political machinations of parliament, the Bank of England or previewing a new exhibition at the Tate Modern gallery.
The Blue Rose's powered machinations keep setting off the Knight's wolf-y senses, so it seems these witches aren't as good as they want Jack and his witch peer mentor-love interest Alyssa (Sarah Grey) to believe.
That tension between knowing what you have to do to win and possibly backing yourself into a corner through your own machinations is at the heart of many of my favorite games, and Azul is no exception.
Technicalities — European Union regulations regarding the rule of law, the possible suspension of loans, the fact that the European Central Bank could withhold emergency funding — were depicted as machinations aimed at undermining the pure patriots in power.
Release date: November 16 Director Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) has made a heist movie that has all the trappings of a typical heist movie — the plans, the machinations, the twists — but a lot more too.
By the time I got there, much of the early optimism had waned, and my colleagues would refer darkly to the arbitrary machinations of Doha (the Qatari capital) or the employees who had left for greener pastures.
The company said it doesn't want to enable lots of would-be-Peter-Thiels, but even if the company's endgame is focused on earning money and not personal vendettas, the machinations and legal strategy are the same.
The gripping naval engagement that pitted Yara and Theon against Uncle Euron, leading their own Iron Fleet, was a burst of activity in an hour of TV that was otherwise occupied with backroom machinations and medical oddities.
Ghoul spares very few bodies, leaving most of Nida's co-workers on the floor, whether by their own machinations (some of them kill each other, which is part of the ghoul's task) or by some other intervention.
Over more than six months of testimony, Vatican watchers hoping that the courtroom revelations would blow the lid off Dan Brown-like intrigue and Machiavellian machinations inside the guarded halls of the Holy See have been disappointed.
Confined largely to a hospital ward, the characters' machinations are such that they give Mr. To the opportunity to exercise his mastery in synchronization to the fullest for many of the movie's economical 90 minutes or so.
But Ryan is too smart for our machinations: Mr. Ryan is doing fine on his own … The Speaker hasn't hesitated to condemn Mr. Trump's bad ideas on the merits as they arise, including his Muslim travel ban.
Washington — as Washington does — has turned the debate, which was once deeply technical about the machinations of a mostly unknown government agency created during the Korean War, into a histrionic fight about the future of American innovation.
Through the machinations of Ira Gershwin, George's brother and principal lyricist, he said, he had been fobbed off on Mollie's sister and her husband, Fanny and Ben Schneider of Brownsville, Brooklyn, who had pretended he was theirs.
The machinations were widely seen as part of the increasingly tense rivalry between Saudi Arabia, a Sunni Arab kingdom, and Iran, which is majority Shiite Muslim, that has been playing out across much of the Middle East.
While the courts will determine whether the Treasury Department, which oversees the I.R.S., is following the law, the review by the inspector general could shed light on the machinations that led Mr. Mnuchin to his legal conclusion.
In a plot that manages to mash up "RoboCop" and Charles Dickens, the interspecies police officer Dog Man (the result of some emergency surgery) battles the evil machinations of both a bionic fish and a conniving cat.
Better off on the sidelines As Trump watched the weekend machinations over reopening the government from his third-floor perch at the White House, he repeatedly told aides that he wanted to be more involved in discussions.
When Russian hackers leaked emails stolen from the committee, some saw it as evidence that Hillary Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, was a victim of foreign machinations, while others viewed the documents' content as confirmation that Mrs.
Ms. Lovelis is 19, and most of this album is devoted to shaking off the machinations of teenage boys, and in some cases, seeking the approval of men who might know more (but who most likely don't).
Fiction and fact converged in story lines around an elaborate web of fake news, the machinations of a powerful "deep state," and the unprecedented sight of a new president at war with the United States intelligence community.
A 2018 VICE investigation documented the internal machinations of The Base, which is purportedly led by an Afghanistan and Iraq war veteran, as members exchanged bomb-making and weapons manuals and discussed plans for future terrorist attacks.
The X-Files has always been a series about how little the machinations of any individual human matter in the face of the massive institutions and structures designed to make the universe run to their own tunes.

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