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"scheming" Definitions
  1. often planning secretly to do something for your own advantage, especially by cheating other people
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You know Cersei is scheming, but you don't know what she's scheming about.
When you throw the scheming Lannisters, the equally scheming Tyrells and the possibly-most-scheming-of-all High Sparrow into one city, it's always going to end badly.
Furthermore, it shows that the scheming and duplicitous Jared Kushner is perhaps even more scheming and duplicitous than we initially thought.
She struggled to fight off various scheming men, while scheming herself to have Elizabeth name her successor of the English throne.
New fiction can take you almost anywhere you want to go this week, from 1980s Athens to 19th-century Edinburgh to the Italy of the scheming Borgias and even more scheming Machiavelli.
A noble young lord is usurped by his scheming uncle.
Not scheming about how to make your friend look bad.
NO ONE would have ever guessed what she was scheming.
Scheming mad men aren't typically heedless bumblers and vice versa.
He'd been scheming this for fuckin' 12 hours at least.
And he didn't mean a bunch of scheming Eastern bankers.
The real scheming, they have argued, happened above her head.
Cast members secretly scheming to avoid elimination off the island.
His longevity is the result of constant manipulation and scheming.
In fact, your boss won't allow that kind of scheming.
He could not be bothered, they suggested, with geopolitical scheming.
And why shouldn't we all be scheming in this way?
Dotty is a scheming, unrepentant liar, and Jackie loves her anyway.
Until last season, Littlefinger was characterized as a scheming puppet master.
Branson took British Airways to court for its scheming and won.
Even when scheming to save the world, he appreciates the details.
He describes an administration riven by scheming and fearful of calamity.
Rest assured, Haim has spent the past year scheming their return.
Fate and opportunity play more of a role than calculated scheming.
But it didn't really add up, suggesting that Pence was scheming.
But beneath that porcelain surface, she's a scheming empress of fury.
By 2008, the scheming led to talk of running a candidate.
But no, I never found a scheming Democrat behind a cubicle.
Which is also how it treats his scheming and double-dealing.
Hugh Grant and Matthew McConaughey might be scheming to become stepbrothers.
Payton's scheming twin brothers are dragged out of the family unit.
On the one hand you have Domenick scheming with Donathan and Laurel.
Lena Headey is an excellent villainess as the scheming, vengeful Queen Cersei.
To others, they seemed to inhabit an atmosphere of semi-continuous scheming.
And the show doesn't depict her as some sort of scheming striver.
"I know you to be a nasty, jealous, scheming bitch!" cries Edith.
Wentworth's exasperation with everyone; Wardog's relentless scheming; David's dogged hopefulness; Lauren's despair.
Isn't this the guy who's always scheming to achieve some other end?
Say she was making alliances with everybody, off in the woods, scheming.
It took some scheming with the other elephant in Kelly's enclosure, Isla.
Many such dramas involve palace intrigues and scheming by the main characters.
If the Russians are scheming foreigners, then Steele must be one, too.
The scheming Denker has unearthed Spratt's secret about moonlighting as Cassandra Jones.
"The Alienist" has no spurned lovers, no wastrels scheming to pocket inheritances.
Follow him on Twitter Sharine Taylor is out here scheming by Mainshas.
You know, the mad king surrounded by all these duplicitous, scheming relatives.
Now legislative leaders may be scheming to get one without the other.
Sharon Stone earned an Oscar nomination as Ginger McKenna, his scheming wife.
Siobhan thinks he is, anyway, and this is what starts her scheming.
Dr. Kanevsky pleaded guilty to scheming to defraud in the second degree.
Just what is all this scheming and obsession with status teaching children?
The "hacker" also alleged that Chyna is scheming to trademark the Kardashian name.
They could not look more like uncomfortable, scheming people with something to hide.
How important do you think his background socioeconomically was to his alleged scheming?
Every character on the show is insufferable, to varying degrees — entitled, selfish, scheming.
Those guys and their zombie horde are obviously scarier than any scheming Lannisters.
When pushed into survivor mode, Meehan's scheming and manipulations would know no bounds.
"Me at Hogwarts scheming on Hermoine #DrakeOMalfoy#CantStandMuggles," he wrote in the caption.
If Jeremy is your close ally, you want him scheming by your side.
That scheming Stamper, who ruthlessly supported Frank, now appears to be the antagonist.
The people had been strategizing and scheming on that for a long time.
When it comes to spying and scheming, he's the best of the bunch.
Aisha, by contrast, had a pugilistic intensity; she was constantly moving and scheming.
Tens of thousands of truck drivers were scheming earlier this year to strike.
Before that, though, the Chiefs' clever scheming had rendered Watt a non-factor.
Their fixation has been that behind every FBI cubicle is a scheming Democrat.
For now, this is all just scheming in Holyrood, Scotland's seat of government.
But she brought fervor and tension galore to this scheming yet intriguing character.
Hoping to save his father's life, Nacho is scheming to take the Don's.
He's got people he likes and doesn't like and is plotting and scheming.
But was the real-life Ms. Fairstein as scheming as the TV version?
Then Vargas was assassinated in an attack orchestrated by that scheming Cyrus (Jeff Perry).
Other top picks: Jude Law plays a scheming lothario trying out monogamy in Alfie.
"Basically if their scheming is noticeable, they lose, if not, they win," he says.
On the original series, they were mostly scheming, villainous foils to the Enterprise crew.
Magic was less important than the political scheming and violence between warring human factions.
Extra value was attached to salesmanship and scheming, two of Trump's own principal traits.
The teen catches Luke scheming, and threatens to shoot him if he doesn't leave.
After six seasons of scheming, the show Prison Break ended in May of 227.
It's not just about scheming, figuring out who's got to get voted out next.
But they're already scheming on how to claw their way back to the top.
Gone GirlThere's enough betrayal, scheming and cruelty in this movie to last a lifetime.
Lara follows up this meeting with some parking-lot scheming with Mo (Erinn Ruth).
But rest assured that his scheming, back-stabbing inner Kenny Powers is eventually unleashed.
The prospect of scheming between gangsters and overeager cops arises early in the story.
The specific charges include money laundering, scheming to defraud falsifying business records and conspiracy.
Around me were a mix of onlookers doing their own scheming, squealing, and overcoming.
The runways this season had us scheming up endless ways to do just that.
The real villain has always been here, scheming, with limitless ambition, and without scruples.
More than 20 minutes of preparation, scheming, and theorizing have vanished in an instant.
Meanwhile, the blind man is scheming to get more money out of their act.
Mr. Deripaska dismissed the emails as just scheming by "beltway bandits," the Post reported.
Buchanan breaks down the scheming happening this year, and it's a pretty fascinating read.
You could immediately feel energy and confidence enter the room as we started scheming.
If you are new to The Circle, get ready for pettiness, laughs, and scheming.
Hackers are beaming and Trump is scheming, but first: a cartoon about slow internet.
The rivalry with Firestone was fierce, with both teams scheming to get an edge.
A bunker paranoia at the top, with staffers below scheming to undercut one another.
When you could literally see her scheming behind her mask of fake-ass tears. 15.
Belichick is too good at scheming free rushers, and the Browns' O-line remains shaky.
When it begins, the sensates are gathered in Paris scheming to save Wolfgang (Max Riemelt).
Scheming by the ruling military junta to sway the contest in its favour appeared thwarted.
She was always worried that somebody was scheming, but it always ended up being her.
Maybe it's because he's the good sort of scheming addict, the kind that gets water?
"It's 'Game of Thrones' with less scheming and fantasy," Neil Genzlinger wrote in The Times.
So, OITNB's producers surprised the scheming series regular with a visit from her vibrant miniature.
In Sacramento, that wasn't often necessary; opponents weren't exactly scheming to slow down Kosta Koufos.
As Master of Whisperers on the king's small council, Varys always seemed to be scheming.
Alex Price plays the scheming character, while Anthony Boyle plays his similarly peroxided progeny, Scorpius.
Ms. Nichols imbues the scheming Margery with the radiant expressiveness of a silent-movie star.
The story revolves around a scheming trapeze artist who marries a dwarf for his inheritance.
These two are widely estimated to be scheming for the day they might replace May.
Scheming judges are caught in bed with foreign mistresses — and Chinese audiences are loving it.
The campaign became a battle of two caricatures: male chauvinist pig against scheming, dishonest woman.
He acknowledges Rasputin's personal ambition, but does not dwell on his evident avarice or scheming.
Satellites are beaming and hackers are scheming, but first: a cartoon about the giggle economy.
Malin Akerman, as the plutocrat's scheming girlfriend, wildly overacts the role of a film noir temptress.
It will have you scheming at work and conspiring an apartment re-design with your roommates.
"These cases go beyond simple scheming and the occasional kickback," he wrote in an email exchange.
Think about it: At this point, most of what Bobby and Taylor's days are spent scheming.
You probably know Taylor Momsen as Jenny Humphrey, the scheming teen queen bee from Gossip Girl.
They warn of scheming politicians and urge residents to "Stop the BAN" on short-term rentals.
His lusty bedfellow sauntered away, scheming about the eggs she would soon release into the sea.
And so far none of the Sparrow's scheming has been to anyone's benefit but his own.
But also what scheming, what melodrama, what Walpurgisnacht (Beuys, Wagner — all that old German Mumbo Jumbo).
Staffers were disobeying Mr Shulkin's direct orders and were, in his telling, scheming to subvert him.
All this is better than two hours of scheming before a tidy resolution involving superhero moms.
All of these errands seem to have lifted his spirits (nothing cheers him up like scheming).
What do you think this guy even does when he's not actively scheming against the Salamancas?
He turns out to be a con man whose scheming wipes out humanity all the same.
Ron Wyden, the senior Democrat on the committee, denounced the industry's "two-faced scheming and profiteering".
It turns out that Durant was, all season long, California scheming, on such a winter's day.
Tuzman was indicted in September for scheming to deceive Kit Digital investors about that company's health.
Party leaders have been obsessing and scheming, but until recently, they had barely taken any action.
Ms. Asensio paints a Manhattan populated by threatening hoodlums, demanding roommates, indifferent doctors and scheming merchants.
None of the four characters, through their respective scheming, has gotten what he or she wanted.
The recent wildfires in California were started with lasers, by people scheming to reduce the population.
Congress is deadlocked and the White House is a merry-go-round of sackings and scheming.
" Benchmark's lawsuit alleged that Kalanick was scheming to regain power by attempting to "pack the board.
Not because Veronica is a scheming seductress, but because, like Archie, she's a teenager who makes mistakes.
It has most commonly been deployed to symbolize acts of deceit and scheming in relation to celebrities.
Plácido Domingo sings the title role, while the soprano Anna Netrebko plays his scheming wife, Lady Macbeth.
But the thing is, dragons and direwolves are just as important to this narrative as Cersei's scheming.
They aren't trying to face any truly fantastical threat, and they're certainly not scheming after the throne.
A damaged genius or a scheming celebrity trying to hold on to his fame at any cost?
During wakeful nights of nursing, my mind ran in circles scheming on how to return full-time.
The ladies of Big Little Lies are still scheming about Season 2, and HBO ain't stopping them.
"He's kind of scheming with a friend of ours, of what he wants to do," she said.
The SEC also contended the company and Levan committed accounting fraud by scheming to minimize BankAtlantic's losses.
For as scheming as Cottonmouth and Dillard can be, they employ some surprisingly entry-level, mindless goons.
Ahead we've rounded up 21 essential reads that scheming fiancés will want to add to cart now.
The king divides his kingdom between Regan and Gaela, throwing the court into chaos with their scheming.
Work can be an arena of scheming and back-stabbing, of ruthless competition and jockeying for power.
She is a lying, scheming, cold-blooded competitor, who'll stop at nothing to satiate her political ambitions.
It stars Susan Sarandon as a vicious, scheming warden and Ron Perlman as Carter, the inmates' leader.
Will every would-be Littlefinger stop his or her scheming, pacified by the new administration's infrastructure plans?
After all, Mr. Trump's tax scheming over the years included outright fraud, according to a Times investigation.
The social media scheming is further evidence of what amounted to unprecedented foreign invasion of American democracy.
Scheming politicians, powerful bankers and prominent officials have featured prominently in the ever-lengthening cast of characters.
These pages crackle with excitement — and charging cavalries, false identities, arranged marriages, scheming industrialists and missing persons.
The angst, guilt and capacity for evil of this scheming duo are laid bare as rarely before.
It would have forced Frank to start scheming as an outsider again, after two seasons on top.
Appearance: Mustachioed Personality: Scheming Scorpios are intense water signs who are maligned nearly as often as Geminis.
And, most perplexingly, how did it take two pre-teens' scheming to get Elizabeth and Nick to communicate?
Or, at least she knows to listen to the talented and scheming producers who feed her the lines.
Now, Dr. Smith is a scheming, brilliant psychologist (or so she claims) – and she's played by Parker Posey.
Majority control in weakly regulated markets is the ideal environment for self-dealing, wild scheming and political intrigue.
Sooner or later, she's going to wake up to his scheming and give him a well-deserved shiv.
His defense team has tried to paint his accusers as opportunistic and scheming for publicity and financial gain.
He had the precise certainty that comes from spending years experiencing Libya's equally mercurial and endlessly scheming tribes.
Schmell famously spent his 20s scheming his way into some of the biggest celebrity events of the time.
The animated sequel follows the flightless birds and scheming green pigs taking their beef to the next level.
I like secret lovers, but he doesn't really have anything to offer, except run-of-the-mill scheming.
Doges causing absolute havoc, like a pair of naughty, scheming clothes bandits — we'll never get sick of it.
Prepare for significant angsty scheming as Asgard's more mischievous prince, Loki, could be getting his own television series.
Posey is perfectly cast as Dr. Smith, the scheming scientist memorably played by Jonathan Harris in the original.
She was accused of "ingratitude" and of scheming against Queen Suthida Vajiralongkorn Na Ayudhya, the king's fourth wife.
"Trump's scheming on his taxes has put a spotlight on a tale of two systems," Mr. Wyden said.
They were charged with grand larceny, scheming to defraud and violating New York's securities law, the Martin Act.
On a tinsel-framed, gift-wrapped set by the brothers Christopher and Justin Swader, scheming and mayhem ensue.
The wolf was portrayed as the ultimate villain, a scheming predator who goes after women, children and livelihood.
They wouldn't be doing that if Garland were just some pawn on an elaborate chessboard of political scheming.
How much ink has been spilled on that pair of brooding, scheming presidents, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon?
The scheming stepmother figure is her own mother, Pam, a cruel desperate woman who hates motherhood and farming.
Elon is dreaming and workers are scheming, but first: a cartoon about the value of your online following.
She's the only female character of substance in the early going, and she's interesting: savvy, beautiful and scheming.
Count Camillo Cavour, hitherto regarded as the cleareyed genius behind reunification, emerged as a scheming, often impulsive, trickster.
Regan and Goneril are usually portrayed as scheming, bloodthirsty villains, but here they are guided by noble ideas.
The show, by contrast, imagined a world of Machiavellian scheming set against the darkening backdrop of climate change.
How reassuring Zeus must have been to carousing men in symposia scheming to get away with cheating, too.
I say goodbye to our lovely Airbnb and the town and start scheming how we could get back here.
He was abrasive at times and enjoyed scheming - not for any sinister reason but to keep the pot boiling.
The movie portrays the Soviets as plucky underdogs battling a lack of resources, scheming sports bureaucrats, and health problems.
For example: I designed my Palico to look as though he is constantly scheming to overthrow his human masters.
Zucker's character, a scheming vixen, tries to seduce Trump in a clip of the scene but gets shut down.
Gellar's character is up to her old scheming as she attempts to take control of Valmont International and bash.
If the women movie makers created cared about money, they showed it by scheming to marry rich, rakish antiheroes.
The case is separate from lawsuits accusing Tesla and Musk of scheming to hurt short-sellers through Musk's Aug.
The officials accused Marin of scheming against the government, said Carrizales, who is acting as one of Marin's attorneys.
Thus, it's no surprise we're always scheming how to give them a starring role in our everyday look, too.
The pilot never made it to series, alas, but at least we have Elite's scheming teens to seduce us.
When her dad arrives early, however, it becomes clear that Jess has been scheming a parent trap all along.
The rift leads to scheming and swordplay aplenty, with some time left over for old-fashioned bodice-ripping trysts.
And together, he and Jacqueline are scheming to convince the Snyder family to change the name of the Redskins.
Instead of matching a defense's complex scheming with his own, he reduces basketball to a series of either-ors.
And Jay, one of the producers, seems to have reset his Aghast Meter after all his scheming last season.
A group of self-absorbed, scheming friends try their worst to run the failing Paddy's Pub in South Philadelphia.
This being a high school theater production, there's also plenty of drama, scheming, and romance to keep things interesting.
The drama, the tension, the scheming might all be worth it, if the product on the field was compelling.
There is Tamar, whose half brother meticulously plans her rape, calling in a crony to assist in the scheming.
HEALY J. R. took it in the chest from his mistress Kristin Shepard (Mary Crosby), Sue Ellen's scheming sister.
Gone on Broadway are Rasputin — the villain of the film — and Bartok the albino bat, his scheming animal sidekick.
As ESPN's Dan Orlovsky explains, Shanahan's prediction wasn't luck, but rather the result of his own preparation and scheming.
When erstwhile allies prove tricksters, and erstwhile partners are scheming liars, what is an old spy chief to do?
On television, she played the scheming, moneyed Dominique Deveraux on ABC's prime-time soap opera "Dynasty" in the 21979s.
It's hard to get White House reporters — a scheming, scrambling, competitive cat herd — to achieve anything close to solidarity.
The choicest irony is that he uses his own celebrated art of fugue as a symbol of malicious scheming.
NASA started scheming about a permanent lunar base and a first crewed mission to Mars by the early '80s.
He turns out to be a fragile character, and it's that weakness more than Frank's scheming that undoes him.
My proposal didn't feel like a betrayal to my mother, more like we were in on the scheming together.
Hilda warns, however, that it cannot be used on mortals, so whatever Sabrina is scheming should be put to bed.
It's honestly a privilege to watch the Monterey 5, whether they're scheming together or just sitting around and eating lunch.
Let's take a look at Cersei's murderous, scheming path that has made her a fan favorite for her sheer audacity.
He links up with two scheming American surgeons (Rudd and Theroux) who might be the only people who can help.
My scheming began when I was a year out of college, living on an editorial assistant's salary in Morningside Heights.
Reid tried scheming players open with pre- and post-snap trickery, motions and shifts and all sorts of backfield action.
There are enough scheming supervillains in this movie to fill out the boardroom at an entire new Legion of Doom.
By keeping the scheming women and femmes at bay, Dynasty has unintentionally gone even further with it's new progressive angle.
Effectively, the officials are accused of scheming to steal $15.5 million intended for some of Puerto Rico's most vulnerable citizens.
The hard-liners say the reformists are scheming to introduce "American Islam" in Iran, a false version of their faith.
On screen she triumphed over the worst—scheming stepmothers, lecherous men, evil god-men—that could be thrown at her.
It is a febrile mood, and no end of conspiracy theories posit what a scheming junta intends to do next.
The Ohio governor said he won't be "plotting and scheming" against Trump, adding that he wants the president to succeed.
I disagreed, claiming that people don't actually like to complain, and, indeed, we never had any scheming or deranged kvetchers.
When it comes to scheming scammers, Cottonmouth is in the same vein as Ali's House of Cards character, Remy Danton.
So, naturally, the two set out on their path becoming millionaires, scheming ways of locating and extracting the hidden treasure.
The director of Oldboy (one of my favorite films) tackling the scheming and betrayal of Sarah Waters' tremendous novel Fingersmith?
I was elated and immediately started scheming how I could further manipulate the situation to make this the new normal.
But we didn't really get to see the scheming, chaos-spreading version of Mudd we know and love until now.
This being a high school drama production, there's also plenty of drama, scheming, and love triangles to keep things interesting.
The recent university admissions scandal has it all with Hollywood stars, scheming millionaires, and sports coaches, all engaged in corruption.
" The details: McConnell has used "scheming, strategizing and tactical maneuvering to win five reelection campaigns and rise through the ranks.
Under arrest, he is ordered by the scheming vizier to retrieve the lamp from its perilous place beneath the sands.
Kelli O'Hara, who has effortlessly crossed the barrier between Broadway and opera throughout her career, plays the scheming maid Despina.
So when we began scheming for this year's photo issue we knew we wanted to include her in some way.
While I'm sitting on my ass all day eating frozen pizzas and dreaming of fresh air, BBC America was scheming.
They weren't yet scheming to open their own restaurant, but they bonded on the line over a love of food.
" While the men in her book are often stumbling into "male sexual stupidity," the women are scheming, vengeful and "histrionic.
They're known for being sex-obsessed instigators who live for drama, so this cat's scheming ways are a natural match.
Kapoor and four other former company executives are accused of scheming to bribe doctors into prescribing a powerful fentanyl painkiller.
However, while Archie and Veronica do kiss, it's not due to some "bad girl scheming" — at least not on Veronica's part.
I'm getting married this year and am already scheming with my fiancée about how to maximize coverage if caps come back.
But he's not, really and Gypsy and Nick start panicking — their scheming clearly isn't as fool proof as they previously thought.
Steve and his younger sister were pals from day one — thanks, in part, to some low-key scheming from their mother.
What kept her sympathetic was her children; say what you will about Cersei Lannister's scheming ways, the lady loves her children.
On Game of Thrones, Carice van Houten plays a scheming high priestess, desperate to follow the correct path to world domination.
Time will tell, but for now we're hoping for a return to the initial focus on political scheming and moral compromise.
Sweat was transferred to a different prison, where he's still scheming — in December 2017, his most recent escape plan was foiled.
Behold: Fantastic Mr Fox snatches wallet from funny Turns out there's a reason literature often depicts foxes as crafty and scheming.
Lady Susan Vernon is broke and searching (and scheming) to find a suitable (and very wealthy) husband for her daughter Frederica.
Why are creators so addicted to hero combat that they keep letting the good guys' infighting overshadow the bad guys' scheming?
Then Gosling showed up, carrying a range of performances, from Drive's affectless protagonist to his bumbling scheming in The Nice Guys.
In his lifetime, Caprotti repeatedly accused the Coop of scheming to block Esselunga's expansion through their links with centre-left politicians.
Who besides Cersei will be around to pull the scheming and betrayal that have ultimately made Thrones such a nail-biter?
The parents get an interesting role this year — Mr. Montgomery is scheming and Ms. Marin (Laura Leighton) is stealing security footage.
The action was taken at the request of American prosecutors, who accuse Ms Meng of scheming to sidestep sanctions against Iran.
Even when such accusations aren't literal, they are attempts to delegitimize women's authority by painting women as devious, corrupt and scheming.
Or maybe you'd like to watch a moody, subtle dramedy about a Murdoch-like media mogul and his miserable, scheming family?
Misery sure loves company, and that's how Livia's children all turned out to be miserable and scheming adults on "The Sopranos."
Conleth Hill, who plays the bald, scheming eunuch Varys, actually looks like this: Want more stories from The Goods by Vox?
Indivior was separately indicted in April by a federal grand jury in Virginia for allegedly scheming to boost Suboxone film sales.
And the families posing and the friends fighting and that old man selling tea, scheming yet comforting at the same time.
Unlike others who spent breaks scheming and gossiping, she would reportedly pull up a chair, put up her feet and read.
Shrouded in her black robes, scheming to marry her teenage daughter off to one of the imams, Waliya is an enigma.
Each side guards a flag while also scheming to grab the other side's flag and bring it back to home base.
Maureen Dowd Opinion Columnist SYDNEY, Australia — Scheming white men, once allies in the conservative cause, knifing one another in the back.
Plot: When her father unexpectedly dies, young Ella finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her scheming stepsisters.
It has horrible consequences for poor Irene, who, thanks to the nefarious scheming of the younger McGill — the man rigged Bingo!
The busy, buzzing plot of "The Favourite" is propelled by scheming, double-crossing and manipulation among its three main female characters.
Ottavino said the time spent hidden in Harlem — "scheming in an evil lair," he joked — had prepared him for the challenge.
But let's just consider the fact that his death scene was a moment seven seasons in the making, and a fitting end to one of the most scheming, manipulative characters in the history of TV. If the writers undo that Stark sister victory to pave the way for more scheming, they'd better have a very, very good reason.
Did HBO intentionally make the show look like another Billions-style drama about rich people scheming on purpose, just to confuse us?
In March, a Manhattan jury convicted Florida software engineer Yuri Lebedev and New Jersey pastor Trevon Gross of scheming to help Coin.
He was accused of repeatedly lying to investors, then, scheming to pay them back using fake agreements for things like consulting services.
The toxic aftermath of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder has allies feuding, adversaries scheming, and competitors jockeying for influence among Muslims worldwide.
She had to maintain the North's loyalty as Jon was off trying to negotiate with Daenerys, while simultaneously fending off Littlefinger's scheming.
With the connivance of the mainstream media, Democrats in power have been scheming to doom this presidency by every undemocratic method conceivable.
The gaze looks furtive, scheming, almost as if he is eavesdropping upon himself, and takes little pleasure in what he is discovering.
Kaitlyn: You're right, Nick is the beautiful, puka-shell-covered stand-in for all the ugly scheming taking place behind the scenes.
Consuelos, 47, joined the CW's take on the Archie comics in season 2 as mobster Hiram, the scheming father of Veronica Lodge.
Vanderpump Rules' star Stassi Schroeder is best known for two things on the hit Bravo show — her scheming skills and style abilities.
Arya with the face-swapping assassin skills, or Jon coming back from the dead, or Tyrion's scheming, or Daenerys's time in Meereen?
She bonds with Arya when everyone assumes they are in competition, brilliantly tricking Littlefinger and putting an end to his scheming forever.
The industry is becoming increasingly competitive, and numerous companies are scheming to lower the cost and increase the reliability of rocket launches.
One of the lone surviving Starks, the redhead is a little more scheming this season — almost like one Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey).
He was also convicted of scheming to prop up the stock price of Retrophin Inc, a drug company he founded in 2011.
With money and ambition on his side, the conservative candidate does anything to win—including intense scheming and unabashed pandering to voters.
You might know him as the latest Marvel baddie with a scheming master plan to eliminate half the world's population because #reasons.
We see contestants who have been plotting and scheming for a month straight finally have a brief moment of love and trust.
Post-election, Twitter users are crafting their own fiction of the vice president scheming to make life a little harder for Trump.
A cartoon aardvark living and fighting and scheming amongst human beings seems an impossible premise to sustain, but this makes it work.
In between, there is clear-cutting and more clear-cutting, with the occasional sidebar about eating or scheming or killing or rutting.
But an appeal to the young could shore up a huge base of popular support away from the scheming in the palaces.
Scheming is just one aspect of the show's three-pronged assault, alongside pop and politics; these, too, are handled well this week.
BALTIMORE — Democratic leaders are teeing off on Republicans over voting rights, accusing the GOP of scheming to block access to the polls.
The brothers have attempted to shake their alleged ponzi scheming past by taking up the heroic mantle of Trump tweet reply guys.
Plus, it's just plain fun—think Thrones-level scheming, plus more oddly compelling camerawork and a healthy side of pitch-black humor.
"The Little Foxes" is talky, with convoluted, Shakespearean scheming; there's a reason that thin plots are characteristic of a sung art form.
And Violet, the Dowager Countess (the indispensable Maggie Smith) — always the lemon in the soufflé — is scheming to secure a family inheritance.
It's no accident that some of Duby's words about Norman — "scheming" and "bloodsucking," in particular — evoke the historical language of anti-Semitism.
Very firm, Mr. Rubinsteyn said, despite the increasing reports of Russia cyber-scheming in America before the election to help Mr. Trump.
As revealed in the House impeachment hearings, however, Rudy Giuliani is actually our Littlefinger, the unscrupulous, scheming conniver in Game of Thrones.
And, if she is not deluded, then she is a malicious, scheming little liar, bought and paid for by my unscrupulous opponents.
So say goodbye to the stress of Mercury retrograde and the scheming of Scorpio season — the Sun will soon be in Sagittarius.
Budget leaders are already scheming to get conservatives to swallow a tough vote after years of opposing increases to the debt limit.
David Raposa: We need Robert Shaw in a front office drinking ditch beer and scheming on how to trade for Mike Trout.
Through the haze of scheming and months of posturing, dawdling and resistance, what has emerged is a snapshot of how the owners align.
Remember, when Amir (Ajay Friese) is murdered in Blue Rose-related scheming, there is no public apology or attempt to kill fewer teenagers.
Twenty years ago Microsoft was considered an evil empire, scheming for domination and embroiled in a bruising antitrust battle with America's Justice Department.
It was textbook scheming, as the Cowboys used tempo to get the look they wanted, then exploited it with the ideal route concept.
On the other hand, she never stops scheming and planning her next move; that low-key bouffant hair is clearly full of secrets.
" Miles and Shelby soon meet up to begin scheming about how to take down the Ferrari — with a Ford, of all vehicles. "No.
After eight episodes of Rebecca scheming her way around everyone — and her own feelings — she now finds herself literally trapped with the results.
Billions is the story of two ruthless geniuses and their intricate scheming as they bend the law in order to settle personal feuds.
Similar racial scheming lies behind an unnecessary and harmful voter ID law and other unfair electoral restrictions approved by the legislature in 2013.
LaRouche was later convicted of scheming to defraud the IRS and deliberately defaulting on more than $30 million in loans from his supporters.
Consuelos, 47, joined the CW's soapy take on the Archie comics in season 2 as mobster Hiram, the scheming father of Veronica Lodge.
I respect and appreciate birds out of fear, but I refuse to personify them with any set of traits beyond soulless, scheming evil.
After all the meetings, scheming, and dimension-hopping, Bishop was still on the loose, able to wreak havoc whenever and wherever he wanted.
Scheming to keep the populists out will only strengthen them; better to expose their empty promises by giving them some responsibility for governing.
On August 6, they sold out West Hollywood's 500-capacity Roxy, with more fans left wanting and scheming on the neon-lit curbside.
All three men were accused of racketeering violations for scheming to collect unlawful debts through loans with 700 percent or more interest rates.
The actor who plays the scheming silver fox, however, Aidan Gillen, apparently had no idea that viewers found his shady character quite sexy.
" Edith finishes the job as she hurriedly packs her bags so she can flee to London, calling Mary a "nasty, jealous, scheming bitch.
In House of Cards, national outcry over gun violence—and some clever Underwood scheming—gets a bipartisan gun control bill moving through Congress.
She looks like a cross between Miranda Priestly and Willy Wonka, and it is clear Margulies delights in playing a scheming ice queen.
Still, every few months, I'm paralyzed with regret, scheming for ways to fit a figure drawing class into my schedule, to no avail.
Though a caricature emerged of her as a Machiavelli in heels, scheming her ascent, to others she seemed more desirous of powerful obscurity.
King Heinrich is characterized not as a sturdy German monarch but as a scheming politician looking to consolidate his hold on the populace.
However, Rose Red was part of a Brothers Grimms' tale alongside her sister that involves a rather cranky dwarf and a scheming bear.
To be clear, we're not saying that Hillary Clinton is a scheming and, at times, murderous queen willing to do anything for power.
The Borgias tells the story of Pope Alexander's rise and rule from his perspective as well of that of his scheming bastard children.
For example, in 2009, a judge issued a forfeiture order of more than $170 billion against the Ponzi-scheming financier, Bernard L. Madoff.
But he is mixing these principles with false conspiracy theories about scheming Democrats and county officials who are trying to help the Democrats.
This heightened atmosphere sets the perfect tone for the story, which is rife with scheming, torqued emotion, and of course, incredible fight scenes.
As the American subsidiary of the Venezuelan national oil company, Citgo is the object of international political scheming, legal maneuvering and financial gamesmanship.
But long-held anxieties over wasting away and having their lies exposed has nurtured a selfish and scheming mindset in all of them.
When the Supreme Court ruled that the tapes were fair game for investigators, the nation finally grasped the extent of Mr. Nixon's scheming.
Emails that came to light in the George Washington Bridge lane-closing investigation showed Mr. Christie's aides scheming to freeze out Mr. Fulop.
It was racist white cops scheming to manipulate Pete into firing the city's first black mayor by manipulating him through his biggest donors.
In March, a jury in Manhattan convicted Florida software engineer Yuri Lebedev and New Jersey pastor Trevon Gross of scheming to conceal Coin.
Double screens to assist cutters, weird daisy-chained give-and-gos to advance to the hoop, much high-post scheming by big men.
I desperately missed the rush of the scheming and sneaking, the lying and hiding, the buzz of scoring the drugs or ingesting the booze.
To wait on definitive proof in a situation such as this is to reward the leader in question for the elaborateness of their scheming.
A happy bonus is how this survey paints an image of a deliciously Machiavellian art world in Rome — all scheming competition and heated rivalry.
The government has blamed the protests on poor communications, scheming by the country's president, Klaus Iohannis (who is a Liberal), and even professional agitators.
Surprised, the scheming Petyr Baelish faced the charges and tried his best spin the accusations, but not even Westeros' Olivia Pope could have helped.
The way I tell this story makes it sound heavily plotted, like Don is constantly scheming to undermine Roger after Roger hits on Betty.
The word "monopoly" has a distinctly nefarious ring to it, conjuring up images of thuggish industrialists in smoky rooms, scheming to undermine their rivals.
"That poster" was for the movie Trainspotting, Danny Boyle's 1996 opus about a group of heroin addicts scheming and shooting their way through Scotland.
Yet despite all the scheming and the angst and the extreme unease of Republican elites in a position to attempt a putsch, Trump survived.
Thus begins a game of telephone, which results in the Dowager Countess' scheming maid Denker letting it slip that everyone's job is at risk.
There's not this scheming going on, [not] a million and one ways you can try to find a way in and find the cracks.
Tamara Williams, 38, of Queens, pleaded guilty to grand larceny, identity theft and scheming to defraud, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said on Wednesday.
Instead, I believed that my doctor and my family were scheming behind my back and making a mistake by giving in to unreasonable panic.
A successful reality show cannot become predictable — or appear to reward a scheming or inauthentic contestant— if it wants to keep its ratings up.
"He added that "meanwhile, behind his back — and in his closest environment — there is some scheming going on and everybody is plotting against everybody.
With all the scheming going on, this episode serves as a nice reminder that Murtagh is as true blue a friend as they come.
He's one of the only people where it's equally possible he's just making a corny joke or actually scheming an earth-moving infrastructure plan.
The culmination of the search didn't contain any of the dramatic scheming or internet trapdoors I'd hoped for at the beginning of my journey.
Our information system has slipped its moorings, and as a result, lying and scheming and fraud has simply become too effective a life strategy.
"This would help to prevent companies from scheming with greedy government officials to get rich at the expense of ordinary people," the report said.
Some members of LGP started scheming about buying a plot of land in Roxana themselves—a last ditch effort to stall the project again.
Its jewel box interiors and outré styling do not make the business of being a scheming and amoral millionaire or billionaire appear particularly unappealing.
Jones benefited greatly from Shurmur's scheming, including rub routes against man coverage and shrewd designs against Cover-4, which the Bucs leaned on late.
Now he's prey – with the other candidates (Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, et al.) scheming to steal his 10 percent grip on the primary electorate.
Shot in Super 8, "The Least Resistance" (1980–81) is a hoot, a picaresque tale about a couple of lazy, irritable, scheming, self-deluding lowlifes.
But a Roy kid never stops scheming, and it looks like he already has a new mantra: Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
Simple math can help scheming politicians draw up districts that give their party outsize influence, but mathematics can also help identify and remedy these situations.
Plus, "fraudsters and thieves are paying very close attention and are already scheming up ways to find the winner and steal his or her money."
In her final moments, the scheming, murderous royal appeared almost human, sobbing for over the end of her life in the arms of her twin.
There will always jokes of lying, scheming politicians that connive their way into office, but this year alone has proven the reality of those quips.
The lanky, ebullient musical comedy star delighted American audiences over almost 5,000 performances as the scheming Dolly Levi in "Hello, Dolly" on Broadway and beyond.
The Bachelor mansion is a place where a hot bod doesn't get you anywhere (because everyone has them!) and only your scheming will save you.
Manigault-Newman and Trump have known each other since the 2004 first season of The Apprentice, when Manigault-Newman emerged as the scheming breakout star.
We don't know if Littlefinger was lying there, since at the time he'd been scheming to stir up trouble war between the Lannisters and Starks.
Most of the first season's plots centered around Rebecca, and Paula's storylines were often relegated to scheming about how to get Rebecca and Josh together.
"For an hour, Monica screamed, she cried, she pouted, and complained bitterly about her scheming, no-good, so-called friend," he writes, according to NPR.
Young Adult is unusual in that its heroine is the most unlikable character on the screen, corrupting nearly everyone she meets with her selfish scheming.
A revolution, two world wars and three decades of scheming against his comrades had clearly taken its toll on the general secretary's grip on reality.
" A couple years later, he called out his predecessor for watching "(basketball)" while "Putin is scheming and beaming on how to take over the World.
Last October, a Manhattan federal jury found three former currency traders from Barclays, Citigroup and JPMorgan not guilty of scheming to rig benchmark exchange rates.
But for the past few weeks they have been huddling, scheming and debating how to give their floundering European Union a fresh lease of life.
It's just as well, as Vasilly and a female cousin have been scheming about the Count's will so that Pierre won't wind up with everything.
The scheming Andrew uses Selina's moment of post-surgery weakness to bribe her into considering him for secretary of state, should she remain in office.
We meet the controllers of the political machine, but, aside from one skirmish in a housing project, the wider effects of their scheming remain invisible.
When his old archenemy, the scheming businessman Crain (Sam Hazeldine), abducts Bishop's new love, Gina (Jessica Alba), Bishop is coerced into resuming his former trade.
Grant is introduced early on as a scheming charmer who loves supermodels and green juice and maybe has designs on Avery's position or Renee herself.
"Mary Queen of Scots" has sisterhood and frustration aplenty as the two young royals wrestle with politics, plots, power, love and their scheming male advisers.
"It weren't the scheming Chinaman what stole ol' Bubba's job down Bovina, 'cause ol' Bubba didn't really have him a job to steal," he writes.
This problem is especially shitty for low-income people of color, who are caught in a nexus of inflated costs, bad policy, and scheming landlords.
Behind closed doors, he complains about Ren by name to fellow town council members, positioning them in opposition, and scheming to squash his rebellious influence.
We both had vivid memories of all the ex-boyfriend scheming we had done and the lies we had told ourselves to justify those schemes.
" For women in particular, these characters "are depicted as lacking morals or kind of to be scheming manipulators, and that is tied to their bisexuality.
What makes the two boys (Ben Bliss and Adam Plachetka) listen to him when he suggests scheming against their lovers (Amanda Majeski and Serena Malfi)?
Last week, they accused Mr. Morales's economy minister, a presidential candidate and six legislators of scheming to buy votes in Congress between 2012 and 2015.
Perfect, I thought, rummaging through the fridge to figure out what we could cook, scheming the 20 excruciating minutes that lay between us and dinner.
Rather, he shows us the desperation and self-delusion behind his addiction: the scheming and strategizing it takes to disguise how extreme his drinking is.
There were inevitable references to the movie "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," the John Hughes comedy about a popular and scheming teenager who fakes being sick.
She hadn't read the classic novel when she and Mr. Steele debuted as the scheming siblings in in its first Off Broadway production in 2012.
In all of my scheming before Joe, I had never conceived of a situation in which I would have the power to break someone's heart.
His scheming Hollywood producer in "The Bad and the Beautiful" was "a perfect Kirk Douglas-type bum," Bosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote.
His scheming Hollywood producer in "The Bad and the Beautiful" was "a perfect Kirk Douglas-type bum," Bosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote.
Conceivably, there could be individual criminal liability, even jail time, for any NRA leaders who might be found guilty of scheming to misreport campaign expenditures.
The bluster and scheming of middle-aged men eventually gives way to age, to losing people one by one, and to consequences for life's choices.
King George VI is merely just having his royal arse kissed by a scheming Anthony Eden (Jeremy Northam, forever and ever Gwyneth Paltrow's dashing Mr. Knightley).
But now that this hole's been filled, Sereno's scheming a new celebration—perhaps a graduation for the patched asphalt that's gone onto bigger and better things.
They continue planning via text, which betrays just how unprepared they were for this kind of scheming, and Nick hops a bus to visit the Blanchards.
"Coming soon to the @thecwriverdale" Consuelos joined the CW's take on the Archie comics in season 2 as mobster Hiram, the scheming father of Veronica Lodge.
Let Mom tell it, this was around the time she was lightweight scheming on a way to make some extra loot without getting a second job.
Yen travels to the court of Aedirn and finds that the ruling dynasty are incompetent, scheming fops who view her as a tool, not an advisor.
For more than two decades, the professional class has soothed its Sunday-night dread with prestige television's tales of striving, scheming, anguish, greed and office politics.
The 10-episode first season reworks some characters' back stories and family relationships and the scheming Dr. Smith is now a woman, played by Parker Posey.
Some top Veterans' Affairs (VA) officials, installed by the White House, appear to have divided loyalties and are, in Mr Shulkin's view, scheming to subvert him.
It's about two scheming brothers, played by Prince and Jerome, who have designs on marrying into the upcoming $50 million inheritance of a young French woman.
We're here to explain exactly what all the scheming and killing in the Ozark finale actually means for all the many monsters of the streaming series.
Confronted with a dispirited population, powerful militias, lurking jihadists and scheming politicians, Iraq's governing class has yet to show it knows how to win the peace.
Another move that strikes us as odd for a man who'd just resigned: late yesterday, Priebus was still scheming with Bannon on how to destroy Mooch.
She put on yet another intense outfit for the final two Hunger Games installments, and she currently plays the scheming Margaery Tyrell in Game of Thrones.
Over the years, certain toys have topped nearly ever kid's list, and in some instances, scarce supplies sent the public into veritable shopping (and scheming) frenzies.
They are simply scheming to elevate a candidate with little or no support in the primaries in the hopes of maintaining their accustomed hold on power.
What a scorcher Next thing you know, Costa will be scheming on how to get the ball there faster, a la "Event Horizon:" Worm holes, dude.
"People are constantly scheming within the parties within the parliamentary system, and prime ministers are getting removed but only rarely through an actual election," Kurlantzick said.
Hair game on point Mimic red-tailed hawk Males feed females in courtship Annoying AF Scheming Steals cat and human food Noisy cowards Basically garbage disposals
At the beginning, when, like everyone else, he thought Mr Trump would fade, Mr Cruz tried to cosy up to him, scheming to inherit his supporters.
Predictably, Cheney is depicted as an evil mastermind, his wife Lynn as a scheming climber and former President George W. Bush as an easily manipulated dolt.
"Corey Lewandowski has spent every minute since the 2016 election scheming to cash in on Trump's presidency," party spokesman Josh Marcus-Blank said in a statement.
There are two counts of wire fraud—including one count of knowingly misleading Fyre Festival investors through falsified emails and another of scheming to defraud investors.
She brought glint and terror to moments when her fears took hold, and was even more chilling when she unfurled her scheming thoughts in breathy utterances.
But it was adults who played the dominant roles, with parents, consultants, college officials and athletic coaches under indictment for scheming on behalf of unwitting children.
Emma quickly progresses from sexy and exciting to smothering, selfish and scheming — the sort of walking appetite that Davis has made an art form of portraying.
The book gave an insider's account of party politics and high-level scheming, but it was the description of Mao's sexual interests that readers found irresistible.
Instead, with the Senate's blessing for his scheming to have Ukraine investigate the Bidens, Mr. Trump now poses an even greater threat to the next election.
What is beyond doubt is the scheming suavity with which Huppert arms her character; seldom has the famous French moue been put to such withering use.
Perhaps in order to have extra room for her sibling scheming sessions, Shiv is in the resort's largest and most expensive suite, the Royal Lochnagar Suite.
The story is unpersuasive in large measure because Salieri was in Paris for much of the time he was supposed to have been scheming in Vienna.
But McConnell is still a hard-nosed partisan, scheming throughout the year to steamroll Senate Democrats whom he believes are hellbent on slowing down judicial confirmations.
But Grigor (John Malkovitch) — who, like Bobby, never stops scheming when he says he will – releases a malware on the Axe Cap internet, shutting it off entirely.
None Of The Scheming Really Adds Up One of the biggest problems with "Welterweight" is just how few of the many Riverdale-ish schemes actually make sense.
Every scene was set inside the Pittsburgh radio station, leading to a lot of swinging doors, back-room scheming and snappy dialogue being hurled back and forth.
While the tune was short and sweet, the moment did provide viewers with a very welcome reprieve from scheming, killing, and the usual Game of Thrones fare.
Those qualities in particular became an increasingly refreshing presence in a post-2016 political atmosphere that's largely been defined by partisan bickering and below-the-belt scheming.
Many of the allegations involved Mr Weinstein scheming to be alone in a hotel room with a young actress while he was dressed only in a bathrobe.
Danny remains fairly oblivious to their scheming until it's too late, leading to a hilariously awkward scene where he invites them over for a housewarming dinner party.
If you haven't made time or had the emotional fortitude to sit through six seasons of gut-wrenching deaths, shocks, and scheming, again, HBO has you covered.
After episodes upon episodes of bad Hiram behavior, we all know Ronnie wouldn't have confidence in just anyone to keep an eye on her constantly scheming dad.
A friendship with a top-secret robot turns a lonely girl's life into a thrilling adventure as they take on bullies, evil bots and a scheming madman.
To define someone as a 'Renegade Jew' in a column about scheming elites written for an audience full of white nationalists is to signal to the sewers.
But last night's finale showed Varys scheming with the ladies in Dorne, only to miraculously appear in the final shot by Daenerys's side, sailing out of Meereen.
Her character, Nicole Walker, came to the fictional town of Salem as a small town waitress — though "scheming gold-digger" might have been her unofficial job title.
" A spokeswoman for Deripaska said he had filed the complaint against the Treasury Department in order to not let his hard work be destroyed by "political scheming.
I get the feeling that Bonnie is up to something scheming and sinister, but it could just be that her everyday look has gone slightly more wild.
She appeared as a nightclub singer in the Ealing Studios film "Cage of Gold" (1950) and a scheming prostitute in the comedy-drama "Sins of Paris" (1951).
Work-Life balance rating: 3.8Average annual salary:What they do: Design the look and feel of a website using skills like color scheming, graphic design, and information flow.
As wolves go, he seems neither slavering nor scheming, and, as he ushers us through the rest of the film, his eyes glow with curiosity and pity.
Still, he said he had no ambition to return to office, even though many Iraqi officials and Western diplomats believe he has been scheming to do so.
A history of scheming Borgia cardinals, waves of foreign domination, papal crackdowns and corrupt governments had imbued Italians with an abiding distrust in authority, Mr. Campi said.
Now that the scheming is clear, Facebook and Twitter say they are reviewing the 2016 race and studying how to defend against such meddling in the future.
Flynn's new counsel, Sidney Powell, has included unfounded conspiracy theories in her filings and accused Mueller of suppressing exculpatory evidence and scheming against Flynn for political purposes.
In that case, the Patriots were fined $1 million and stripped of first- and fourth-round draft choices for, the NFL concluded, scheming to use underinflated footballs.
Shanahan starting to get his due It's too extreme to call Shanahan underrated, but his scheming brilliance has taken a backseat to McVay's since both were hired.
He has the kind of slack, cherubic mouth that makes him appear credulous even when scheming, looking like the innocent boutonnière and being the serpent under it.
Inside the firm, we joke that working at BMS&K is like playing one big game of Stratego: building armies and scheming to take over the world.
This scheming diva of a grain can be used as a base in a variety of summer dishes, including rhett spread, rhett under beets, and rhetted beets.
Alas, a pair of scheming brothers (Brian Russell Carey and Michael McCoy Reilly) have their sights on taking over the Palace, which is that in name only.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New Jersey pastor was sentenced to five years in prison for scheming to help an illegal bitcoin exchange escape scrutiny from banks and regulators.
Parker, who has sandy blonde hair, an unkempt beard and thick-rimmed glasses, doesn't come across as a hard-charging executive scheming to take down the industry superpowers.
She raises her socio-politically "woke" teen daughter Elena (Isabella Gomez) and scheming son Alex (Marcel Ruiz), with the help of her widowed, conservative mother Lydia (Rita Moreno).
From here, there is only more backstabbing, scheming, sex tape leaking, relationship ruining, and unexpected paternity learning, along with every other telenovela standard fans have come to expect.
As the antagonist of Kwan's novel, Eleanor is more clearly a shallow adversary who spends much of her time scheming against Rachel, and snooping through her family details.
Salvini, who effectively triggered the crisis on Thursday by declaring the ruling coalition unworkable, accused his critics of scheming to save their posts and keep him from power.
Rhys (John Simm) Ben's scheming BFF was terrifying for most of The Catch's freshman season, until he decided to prioritize his friendship over murder and the British mob.
Using "bull" to mean a lie or falsehood can be traced back to the Old French word bole, which means "deception, trick, scheming, intrigue" according to the OED.
Overall, though, the consensus seemed to be that this time the Starks will triumph; Littlefinger's scheming will work for awhile, but in the end he'll get found out.
Among the new songs is "True Love," an Act II ballad sung by Anna after Hans, a scheming prince, betrays her and locks her in a palace room.
On Friday, May 13, the filmmaker Whit Stillman's adaptation of the story, starring Kate Beckinsale as Lady Susan and Chloë Sevigny as her scheming sidekick, arrives in theaters.
But, when you're so unhinged you're scheming about multiple poop crimes, it's unlikely you actually care about the collateral damage left in your wake, Fruit Ninja or not.
" Antihero is probably a tie between Veda, Mildred's scheming daughter in James M. Cain's "Mildred Pierce," and Harriet, the outrageous antihero (or hero?) of Iris Owens's "After Claude.
Readers have to be willing to believe that Will Rhodes is worth all this effort and scheming, even though he is no 007 and has no clandestine duties.
NEWARK — Three weeks of testimony in federal court here have focused mostly on the scheming behind the politically motivated lane closings at the George Washington Bridge in 2013.
If one looks at the circumstances that brought each of the Casey three to the Court, it's clear that Casey wasn't the product of clever scheming by Republicans.
Meanwhile, another power play is unfolding in Michigan, where a lame duck Republican Legislature is also scheming to strip the incoming Democrats of various powers of their offices.
But as we drew closer, we heard them praying for the Lord to intercede on Clarence Thomas's behalf, to rescue him from the scheming malice of Anita Hill.
Sometimes, even if they aren't doing great, they're doing the very best they can…which might be being cavalier, or scheming, or threatening an old woman named Debbie.
In May, Mr. Trump recalled the American ambassador to Kiev, Marie L. Yovanovitch, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2016, telling others she was scheming against his administration.
They arrive with cattle, a rabble of unruly children and a struggling but scheming patriarch who would learn from Hatidze so he may profit from her life's work.
The worst thing about the discussion on the radio, Ms. Preston said, was that it painted black transgender women as scheming and assigned all the blame to them.
Civilian warfare requires a set of tactics — well-developed capacities for lying and scheming and power-grabbing and manipulation — that both lack, whether by personality, temperament or impairment.
Capon and Alonso initially read as one-dimensional stereotypes — a scheming Frenchman and a loud black man — but the unfolding story lets us peek into their true depths.
Over a cold and minimalist Daytona-esque Kanye West beat, Pusha-T spits the praises of an independent woman successfully scamming and scheming her way to the top.
Trump Tower, it seems, was a House of Lies and the man in charge was scheming to make others accept the version of reality most convenient to him.
Acting like so many competitors — scheming to beat long odds to grab a wild-card spot, and then trying to get lucky again in October — was not working.
Elba grew up in Hackney, and his familiarity with the community is visible in the movie's evocation of a tumultuous world suffused with lowlife scheming and thumping tunes.
Since season 2 of CW's soapy take on the Archie comics, Riverdale fans have come to know Michael's father Mark as mobster Hiram, the scheming father of Veronica Lodge.
Meanwhile, Lucious is holed up in his Empire office with Andre and Thirsty, scheming about how to win the company back after lil' snitch bitch Hakeem voted Lucious out.
But to Trump's supporters, this looks a whole lot like a "deep state" coup — the Justice Department scheming to oust an elected president because he fired the FBI director.
By ingratiating herself with her castmates in the personal exchanges in the house, she used the show to recast her image from scheming sellout Trump appointee to "human" Omarosa.
So one potential surprise twist is that the Golden Company — which has a long history of being Targaryen supporters — will ultimately betray Cersei with the help of Varys' scheming.
And as a strategic move, and an undoing of Tyrion's scheming (he is not doing well at strategizing so far this season!), the Casterly Rock maneuver is pretty brilliant.
All of his scheming amounted to nothing in the end, his throat cut at Arya Stark's hand while the Knights of the Vale — ostensibly his soldiers — sat and watched.
Because I think people want to know how can we stop these individuals that are sitting in their apartments plotting and planning and scheming the killing of innocent people.
Instead, Clark discovers he's a champion of all aquatic life, disturbed by recent environmental damage in the area, traceable to the town's resident scheming billionaire, Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum).
Whatever the outcome of closed-door scheming in Rome this week, Italy is likely to get its first all-populist government—if not now, then soon, after another election.
That's a major symbolic choice in the show, tied to the history of Western movies — white-hats are pure and noble heroes, black-hats are low and scheming villains.
Put up against a rich presence like Olenna, a character we've seen scheming, lying, and losing, the Sand Snakes' lack of any real rhyme or reason is painfully obvious.
Cristiano Ronaldo -- the most famous athlete in the world -- has been hit with criminal charges in Spain for allegedly scheming to screw the government out of millions of dollars.
Absolutely. Look, we can acknowledge that this song about scheming women, in which Lil Wayne makes fun of someone's ass injections, is not the most enlightened piece of media.
The Netflix flagship's fourth season—which was released all at once last Friday—still offers up its pretty-but-humorless world of ruthless realpolitik, scheming politicians, and intermittent dalliances.
Kim gets that in spades and has undoubtedly been using his face time with other leaders to find just enough money to keep his scheming and repression on track.
Together, Joe Anglim and Kelly Wiglesworth have a combined 119 days competing on the long-running reality show – but they're about to leave the scheming and the backstabbing behind.
A vast number of conspiracy theories hinge on the existence of a subjugated yet honorable "people" against a corrupt and scheming "elite," and, as it happens, so does populism.
They accused election officials of scheming to give an edge in municipal elections to a white mayoral candidate, who eventually won by a narrow vote in the 2015 election.
Sanders supporters have seethed over what they view as DNC scheming that sought to undermine Sanders's insurgent campaign in an attempt to pave the way for a Clinton nomination.
By and large, I enjoy being gulled by narrative scheming, but in this case I soon gave up, since none of the characters has a fate worth bothering with.
Myself, Danielle, and and Rob are there to help him through this, as we discuss Edmund McMillen's new platformer, The End is Nigh, and Rob's latest scheming in Subterfuge.
They could promote Tsiskaridze in a way that Filin wasn't being promoted, so gradually Tsiskaridze accrued more and more soft power around himself, and that's when the scheming started.
As the scheming Mime, who takes in the orphaned Siegfried in the hope of using the boy's strength to gain the ring, Gerhard Siegel infused his tenor with venom.
What she does is so much worse than dramatic scheming: She watches, listens, and waits for her prey to become so unnerved by her that they reveal too much.
Instead, the show bubbles over with goofy in-jokes about product placement, bad money management, and the highly specific Hollywood danger of getting suckered by one's scheming influencer spouse.
They're ostensibly keeping the proverbial seat warm for Aughra, an ancient and powerful being who was tricked into handing over her stewardship of the crystal by the scheming Skeksis.
In 1913, the historian Charles Beard dismissed the whole affair as a gathering of wealthy men, almost half of them slaveholders, scheming to preserve and enhance their economic power.
If "The Edge of Seventeen" were a run-of-the-mill high school melodrama, Krista would be revealed as a selfish, scheming vixen and Darian as an arrogant jerk.
In the finale, Meyer finally realizes her dream of becoming the president, but only after throwing those she is closest to under the bus and scheming to get there.
Users with Turkish IP addresses flooded the comments, directing people to an Erdogan "redpill" thread, which portrays Gülen as a Muslim fundamentalist scheming to overthrow the secular Erdogan government.
There are also evil twins scheming for his fortune, a mad scientist who wants to replicate his DNA and an undercover agent (Cleo Tavares) posing as an African refugee.
Inside the firm, we joke that working at Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly is like playing one big game of Stratego: building armies and scheming to take over the world.
Eran Eyal, 44, of Brooklyn, also pleaded guilty to two felony counts of scheming to defraud in connection with his two prior companies, Passo Sync Inc and Springleap Inc.
The scheming never stops, the alliances shift crazily, an up-and-comer is always promising change and a craggy insider is always bending that naïve idealist to his will.
Charley: She's our main protagonist in this episode, still plotting and scheming, trying to convince Davis to play for New Orleans and still blackmailing his old teammate Felix Evans' wife.
Sure, the show would be boring as hell without his constant plotting, scheming, and lurking; he did, after all, fuel feuds between the most powerful houses throughout the Seven Kingdoms.
In his frog form, he's still the guy you can count on to show you a good time, even when you're on the run from evil spells and scheming sidekicks.
The other reason: Winnifred's would-be nemesis, the scheming Queen Aggravain, is embodied as an haute-couture villainess by the incomparable Lypsinka, the red-bewigged alter-ego of John Epperson.
She had returned the paint buckets to the trunk just as quickly as she'd brought them out, and was already scheming with her team about the next wall to paint.
Petyr Baelish may be a scheming dog desperate to slyly take control over all the thrones on Game of Thrones, but in real life, Aidan Gillan is a damn treat.
Wholly successful is Kelly McAndrew's iron-willed Agatha, who embraces the hard realities of life with resolute, scheming clarity; even her crocheting conveys a sturdiness that should not be tested.
Instead, they were greeted by explosive fallout from a suspected Russian hack on the Democratic National Committee that exposed emails -- published by Wikileaks -- of top officials scheming against Bernie Sanders.
China will also stop approving certain games inspired by its imperial past, including "gongdou," which directly translates to harem scheming, as well as "guandou," the word for palace official competition.
On Valentine's Day, Ms. Keane coincidentally also tells the girls that she doesn't have time for dates, prompting them to start scheming ways to set her up with their dad.
The prosecutor, who pleaded not guilty to 23 federal counts related to influence peddling, was allegedly so brazen and comfortable in his scheming that he conducted business over text message.
But amid all the scheming, and with a big chuckle, Muhammad Morsi, then president, informed his colleagues that their discussion was being broadcast live on a state-owned television channel.
We found that with special education and special education resources, there are things that have to be considered into the budget, and they were scheming to keep that budget insufficient.
But Harley is much more interesting on her own, when she's visibly scheming, fighting off melancholy, or puckishly playing up or toning down her Brooklyn accent, depending on her circumstances.
We want her doing what she does best: plotting, scheming and saying nasty things, so can we just assume she emerged from the first film not having learned a thing?
Antiques Romantic scheming that a Brooklyn teenager hid from her parents in the 1810s will be exposed this month when three binders filled with letters go on sale in Manhattan.
U.S. prosecutors accuse them of scheming with other traders to share sensitive client order information through phone calls and an electronic chat room known as the "Cartel" to suppress competition.
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has made pretty clear he's not going to release his tax returns, but that hasn't stopped Democrats from scheming ways to make him do it.
American juries and judges, far from Sudan and not subject to Islamic law, regularly paint abused women as scheming assassins, their actions motivated by money or anger, rather than helplessness.
Gael, the scheming, domineering protagonist of this arch début novel, seeks both to torture and to protect her younger brother, Guthrie, who is gaunt, devout, and prone to crippling seizures.
Even as they wait, disgraced, to be sentenced for multiple felonies, their old allies are scheming to make sure the Legislature does not change too much now that they're gone.
Pound became a pivotal figure at a time when the running and the jumping, the shooting and the scoring, have so often been overshadowed by the scheming and the cheating.
Then, she was seen as the obnoxious teacher's pet madly waving her hand with the right answer, the scheming careerist and résumé-stuffer who would stop at nothing to win.
I'm referring to the timing and tone of his statements and tweets: when he pipes up; how he lashes out; what he deems worthy of his bragging, scheming and ire.
His story of dreamy lovers split apart by scheming courtiers is also a protest against rulers, like the unseen duke, whose riches are wrung from the blood of their people.
He has also tried to make political topics more appealing by using vivid imagery, producing animations that depict officials scheming at bathhouses to promote Mr. Xi's anticorruption campaign, for example.
From scheming, fatally flawed beasts that populate folktales, to the anthropomorphizing of pets by their owners, to the digitized emoticons and avatars in our phones, animals become our unwitting doppelgängers.
Baron Wenckheim concerns a retiring man who returns home to his tiny Hungarian village, only to be met with scheming and manipulation from many of its desperate and desolate inhabitants.
Collins played Alexis Carrington Colby, the vengeful and scheming ex-wife of Blake Carrington, in Dynasty for 205 episodes from 1981-89, later returning for Dynasty: The Reunion in 1991.
The accounts portray a scheming plotter and academic cheater who may have pulled strings to enter the police college and may have been directly involved in the July coup attempt.
This prequel to that gripping crime drama unfurls the back story of Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk), the scheming lawyer who offered "Breaking Bad" some much-needed levity as Saul Goodman.
She was the first and last voice in the ear of the leader of the free world, the trusted adviser who did the worrying and scheming for both of them.
It's true this sort of tax-avoidance scheming has been going on forever; it has long been documented that people try to find every possible way to pay fewer taxes.
To take one example of many, emails that some outlets portrayed as Clinton aides scheming to dodge press scrutiny were actually a spirited debate about answering questions at certain events.
He got all the way to White House, and he's still being taken for a ride by the scheming rightwing oligarchs around him — just like those poor rubes in Kansas.
The emotion has visited both primaries, sweeping a Republican debate stage on Saturday night, when Mr. Rubio briefly resembled a windup doll who could speak only about President Obama's political scheming.
Rounding out the not-Roy-children cast is Logan's wife Marcia (Hiam Abbass), who is not-not constantly scheming her way to the top of Logan's media empire, and Gerri (J.
In an exclusive supertease for season 3, tensions remain high for Queen Helena (Elizabeth Hurley) and her scheming brother-in-law, King Cyrus (Jake Maskall), as they struggle over the monarchy.
After all that scheming and warring, the metaphorical Iron Throne (the physical one no longer exists, having been reduced to molten metal by Drogon) has gone to Bran, of all people.
Things to Do:  To truly capture the Lannister experience in Dubrovnik, one need only stride about its rocky passages and gaze intensely to sea, scheming how best to maintain your power.
Underworld: Blood Wars (2017): The most recent addition to the franchise brings another coven, another conspiracy among the vampire elite, and another hairy werewolf rebel scheming to destroy his vampire enemies.
Look, I've been scheming and dreaming of a way to get Davis in here since the summer started but he's an enigmatic creature who turns even moreso when the UV climbs.
Although her take-no-prisoners expression was the result of exhaustion, Jackson, in perfect hair and makeup, ended up looking serenely skeptical, at peace with—or even proud of—some scheming.
Ferdia Shaw plays Artemis, a scheming 12-year-old criminal, who with his bodyguard, Butler (Nonso Anozie), goes into the fairy underworld to kidnap a fairy and hold her for ransom.
But then one of the key players called an audible, which was predictable in the show's scheming world but still inordinately satisfying, on what is now one of TV's preeminent dramas.
You'd think that after six seasons of bloodshed on Game of Thrones, it'd all be old hat to actress Lena Headey, who plays the scheming Cersei Lannister on the HBO show.
The trailer is everything we've come to expect from Netflix's hallmark original programming: overly tense music, serious corruption, a little sex, and enough plot material to keep you scheming for months.
But Mr Kelly is powerless to shield the president from his favourite channel, which runs reports on the scheming deep state and the need to fire Robert Mueller, the special counsel.
On Game of Thrones, Conleth Hill plays the scheming "spider" and Master of Whisperers, Lord Varys, a character whose appeal owes everything to the North Irish actor's nuanced, stage-trained performance.
The movie — based on the true story of a Los Angeles Ponzi-scheming ring in the 1980s — also features Emma Roberts, Suki Waterhouse, Billie Lourd and, as Andy Warhol, Cary Elwes.
Forget about about finding out who ends up with Colton — the real love story here is The Bachelor's burgeoning sorority of women of color, late-in-the season scheming and all.
The Verdict: Marvel's Iron Fist starts off sluggishly, seeming far more like a soap opera than a superhero series, complete with bland, pretty, rich people sneering and scheming over family fortunes.
From what we can see, it's fairly obvious that Hadid is on the phone with a Real Housewife — presumably, the eighth housewife, Yolanda's fridge — and they're scheming about Hadid's next swipe.
They were later accused of scheming to bribe Ashe, who prosecutors said took more than $1.3 million in bribes from Chinese businessmen to support their interests in the U.N. and Antigua.
The second is a civil lawsuit accusing Mr. Croman of illegally scheming to trick, frighten and bully people out of their rent-regulated apartments, so he could charge new tenants more.
As for Fionnula Flanagan, stuck in a wheelchair in a filthy mountain shack, the role of Maw — a scheming Irish matriarch herding two knuckle-dragging menfolk — is definitely a career low.
As the last 24 hours have shown, however, an empowered Giuliani scheming with Trump -- and with little consultation with, or heads up to, senior White House aides -- is very, very problematic.
The Tony-winning actors Janet McTeer and Liev Schreiber will be the latest scheming aristocrats sparring over love and revenge when a British production of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" transfers to Broadway.
Using Egyptian territory, in effect, to resettle Palestinian "refugees" would violate a deep-seated taboo, which is one reason Sisi's Islamist enemies often accuse him of scheming to do just that.
" The actor, who plays the scheming and wicked former President Frank Underwood on "House of Cards," came out in the statement, saying, " I choose now to live as a gay man.
Alias Grace is about a woman who embodies every female trope from the male psyche: she is both the innocent madonna victim, and the scheming evil whore, all wrapped into one.
The company, which has been accused of scheming to pay surrogates to deny the threat of climate change, is trying to turn the tables by calling its opponents the real conspirators.
" The actor, who plays the scheming and wicked former President Frank Underwood on "House of Cards," came out in the statement, saying, " I choose now to live as a gay man.
Once you've released a song on a reputable blog—or, barring that, cultivated a grassroots following by scheming your way onto various Spotify playlists—the booking offers will come rolling in.
As far as they are concerned, the attempted coup was not only a domestic assault on Turkish constitutional order, but also an attempt by Western "foreign powers" scheming for his overthrow.
As the sole practitioner of FBI oversight while I was in Congress, I never found a scheming Democrat that caused anything but dismay if he or she uttered their party affiliation.
In Google's case, trolls from 4Chan, a notoriously toxic online message board with a vocal far-right contingent, had spent the night scheming about how to pin the shooting on liberals.
With her Aunt Rosaline as chaperone, Ophelia must leave the only home she's known and take up residence with Thorn's family — a scheming, largely unfriendly lot — in the Pole's capital, Citaceleste.
But they have lost faith in her ability to control her party or her cabinet, and by her evident timidity when faced by Boris Johnson, her scheming, ambitious, incompetent foreign secretary.
We now have "the deep state," the scheming coterie in the intelligence community supposedly seeking to take down the president to protect its own power, as the viral Web conspiracy goes.
To carry off the scam, Mr. Rechnitz suggested routing the transaction through a Ponzi-scheming ticket broker he had been involved with — yet another of the shady businesses he dealt in.
He has instead been lurking in his lair, scheming about a plan to raise taxes on the richest people in America and give tax cuts to the people who need them.
Written by Pierre de Marivaux (1688-1763), the play is one of those romantic intrigues involving charming paramours, scheming servants and much bustling in and out of rooms amid conspiratorial conversations.
Cate Blanchett earned an Oscar nomination playing Queen Elizabeth I as a stressed-out, modern-minded woman, intent on having it all while religious conflicts and scheming advisers rage around her.
Not long into his mission, Johnson discovers that the US isn't even close to getting a man on the moon and begins scheming up an idea to fake the whole damn thing.
The executive, James Gatto, was arrested in September, and was charged in an earlier indictment with scheming to bribe students to attend the Adidas-sponsored University of Louisville and University of Miami.
WHEN Wang Xianchen, a Chinese official in the early 1500s, tired of the scheming of imperial politics, he returned to his home in the southern city of Suzhou for a simpler life.
Former New York queen Veronica Lodge (Camila Mendes) is stuck waiting tables after cutting off her relationship with scheming dad Hiram (Mark Consuelos, now almost exclusively twirling a mustache in all scenes).
The scheming and backstabbing culminated last week in the firing of Vice President Mnangagwa – a onetime favorite as Mugabe's successor – in what was seen as a move to strengthen Grace Mugabe. 3.
At the show's core there's still Blake Carrington (Grant Show) and his massive energy company and estate, which his ambitious, scheming daughter Fallon (Elizabeth Gillies) assumes is eventually going to be hers.
"Jacob and the Other," a minor masterpiece, follows an oafish, over-the-hill European wrestler and his scheming manager, as they piece together one final prizefight in the backwaters of Santa María.
Because it takes more than ordinary scheming to drum up a book full of run-ins, Mr. Russo throws in a number of plot devices that might ordinarily power a situation comedy.
So far, the latest dump-Trump scheming seems less like a cohesive strategy than another manifestation of the intraparty war of ideologies that led to Mr. Trump's win in the first place.
Because the ball has an equatorial seam which stands about an eighth of an inch proud, the bowler is scheming to use this asymmetry to make the ball deviate after it bounces.
Two remaining charges, scheming to defraud and violating New York's securities law, each carry a maximum sentence of four years, while the third, for conspiracy, carries a maximum sentence of one year.
The more venal Hongshi, allying himself with a scheming minister (Dinh James Doan), uses a mechanical bird, powered by a hidden human, to deceive his sibling into abandoning the living Nightingale's counsel.
Both characters—who were queer, crass, occasionally partook in recreational drugs, and ever-scheming—debunked socio-normative roles of how some may believe young Jewish women from middle-class backgrounds should behave.
On the other are those who saw him as a lifelong victim — a developmentally arrested and unjustly maligned black entertainer who was a magnet for tabloid opportunists, corrupt cops and scheming frauds.
Lady Grantham, who nearly passed out at the thought of her daughter in bed with the Turkish attache, is now running a hospital and plotting and scheming with the best of them.
He has signaled that he won't mount any defense to impeachment charges in the House over his scheming in Ukraine, insisting it is somehow beneath him to participate in a constitutional process.
The ones they showcase, however briefly, are either portrayed as scheming rubes who love eating at the Olive Garden and Bubba Gump Shrimp Company or apathetic losers who can't stop jerking off.
Well, that's a question for our next player... At first glance, this character looks an awful lot like the Educated Fool: the same scheming grin, the same obsessive focus on expected value.
All of the scheming was cold comfort to the handful of fans of the Chargers, the Raiders and the Rams who traveled to Houston and were left to mill around outside the hotel.
There's a reason The Office was so popular on (at least) two continents: Many of us can relate to dysfunctional bosses, loopy coworkers, and political scheming that can dwarf the rhythms of business.
This is the sort of scheming and maneuvering that initially gave Game of Thrones its richness, and it's been missing from this season (aside from a little side-eye between Sansa and Dany).
Alejandro Antonini Wilson, a star witness in an unrelated U.S. case against five Venezuelan government agents scheming to smuggle $800,000 into Argentina, said that Reiter was a very close, personal assistant to Ramirez.
So, Veronica plays the role of mean girl instead — even though, as evidenced by the friendship built between Veronica and Sierra over the course of their scheming, it's not who she really is.
Each of them brow-beats Boris with their own views on Brexit, and he seems to emerge from these encounters not as a scheming Machiavelli but as a man tormented by contradictory advice.
The South American country's government has accused opposition politicians and anti-Maduro activists abroad of scheming to assassinate the leftist leader with the drones, which were laden with explosives, during a military parade.
McCarthy's attorneys said the allegations were largely based on testimony from Rachelle Bond, who they described as a "scheming, manipulative woman" who lied about her daughter's death to cover up her own guilt.
But McCarthy's defense attorneys said the murder charge was largely based on the word of Rachelle Bond, a "scheming, manipulative woman" who lied about her daughter's death to cover up her own responsibility.
The Kristen-centered slut-shaming really took hold at the end of "Part One" when a conversation about James's scheming to join the Pump group turned into an investigation into Kristen's sexual history.
Among other things, as VICE News's coverage has shown, the trial has mostly served to make Manafort and Gates (who both held top positions on Trump's campaign) look like scheming liars and crooks.
Former Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, a vice chairman at the DNC, also told The Hill on Sunday that those involved in scheming to undermine the campaign should either resign immediately or be fired.
THE LITTLE FOXES Both Laura Linney and Cynthia Nixon will play the scheming and ruthless Regina Hubbard Gibbons in a revival of Lillian Hellman's 228 drama about cutthroat Southern aristocrats in 225 Alabama.
The settlement stemmed from a 2005 lawsuit in which retailers accused credit card providers of scheming to fix the price of processing fees, the money the card companies charge retailers for each transaction.
Season 4, Episode 123: Chapter 43As much as we love the power plays and scheming inherent in House of Cards, it's the what-the-fuck-just-happened moments that really get fans going.
But a pleasant high can make their scheming and bizarro lifestyles more charming and rewarding and remind you just how grounded and sane you are in comparison to the maniacs on your screen.
An attuned reader will notice that, in a corridor at the base where Calvin has a confrontation with a scheming colleague, there is a tiny gray square where a wall meets the ceiling.
Even after a federal appeals court struck down the state's outrageous voter-suppression law in July, saying that it targeted black voters "with almost surgical precision," officials were scheming to work around it.
Jordan Barowitz, a spokesman for the Durst Organization, responded to Mr. de Blasio's essay with a reference to "Game of Thrones," the popular series about a fantasy world of dragons and political scheming.
There are Chinese gangs and malicious pit bull breeders, scheming hip-hop producers and, in his new book, a group of corrupt former soldiers with a history of torturing detainees at Abu Ghraib.
CreditCreditNeil Leifer/Sports Illustrated, via Getty Images In the N.F.L., where there is so much downtime between games, coaches will spend hundreds of hours scheming and plotting new ways to fool the opposition.
In the most recent case, Dawkins and Code were accused of scheming to pay college basketball coaches in exchange for their help in funneling players with N.B.A. potential to their nascent sports agency.
Jim Jordan of Ohio, repeatedly highlighted Cohen's history of lying and scheming for his own personal financial gain, asking if he had a book or movie deal, in a series of tense exchanges.
A worldview in which life is all wins and losses, victories and defeats, giving a beating or taking one, requires so much scheming and scrambling that it's easy to miss moments that matter.
Dr. Bob, for instance, Abigail and Megan's willing confederate and the slavelike sexual partner of both sisters, stands in for Edmund, Gloucester's scheming bastard son; like Edmund, the doctor is secretly plotting usurpation.
The tragedy of the novel is that Isabel chooses the wrong suitor — the scheming dilettante Gilbert Osmond — and the question hanging over the book's last section is whether she'll leave him or not.
The only impeachment involving foreign policy came in the case of a senator, William Blount, who was accused in 1797 of scheming to transfer parts of Florida and the Louisiana Territory to Britain.
Our response to this problem is to put them in prison, where they'll get little to no help and have all the time in the world to sit around scheming about getting high.
The only impeachment involving foreign policy came in the case of a senator, William Blount, who was accused in 1797 of scheming to transfer parts of Florida and the Louisiana territory to Britain.
No one's keeping Marge Gunderson from meticulously connecting the dots in the Coens' "Fargo," but the criminal scheming here isn't that sophisticated, at least insofar as Ray Stussy and Nikki Swango are concerned.
That means that not much can be done as long as Washington considers China a "strategic competitor" and a "revisionist power" allegedly scheming to undermine the U.S. economy and the existing world order.
The Trump campaign has botched the very real Clinton email scandal, focusing instead on sideshow scheming within the FBI and waiting on some Russian hacker to provide a bombshell that may never come.
In one of his most famous poems, The Heirs of Stalin, from 1961, he wrote that though dictator Josef Stalin had died, his legacy lived on, "he was scheming, had merely dozed off".
Like most contemporary action flicks, this one more or less plays out as a succession of fights, chases and time outs (for chatting, scheming or lonely musing) across two or more plot lines.
Merlin is somewhat mysteriously played by Stanley Tucci, who appeared in the franchise's previous installment — 2014's Transformers: Age of Extinction — but as a completely different character (the scheming technology executive Joshua Joyce).
But "Espionage" is so good because you know that Rachel is scheming, and you know that Coleman is finally going to see what she's capable of, and you know that a showdown is coming.
But that aside, the Underworld movies are really, really densely packed with political maneuvering and scheming, and with people standing around in beautifully elaborate leather clothing, and with people abruptly getting their throats cut.
It's remarkable that Disney's Oscar-winning "Zootopia" (renamed "Zootropolis" in Britain) also had a cast of furry mammals, as well as a scheming mayor who used a secret serum to exploit a city's prejudices.
On Thursday, two Giuliani associates - Ukraine-born Lev Parnas and Belarus-born Igor Fruman - who helped him with his efforts to investigate the Bidens - were charged with scheming to violate U.S. campaign finance laws.
Zeke Smith, a two-time contestant on the CBS reality show's 33rd, and now 34th, season of scheming tropical castaways, was viciously and needlessly outed as a transgender man by fellow participant Jeff Varner.
I still have a lot of 16mm film projects in the works, a gallery show featuring my tintypes and live 16mm screening, a feature I've been scheming on for the last five-ish years.
What's the relationship between the tailcoat-clad soloist, Dunia Acosta, who veers between scheming and despairing to "Pennies From Heaven," and Daileidys Carrazana and Manuel Duran, whose unconventional partnering suggests a fractured, complicated love?
Their focus is the N.F.L.'s personal conduct policy, which Goodell has used to penalize players for transgressions as varied as aggressive hits on quarterbacks, bullying teammates, domestic abuse and scheming to deflate footballs.
The Cowboys have the tools to beat the Patriots, but believing they could win (in Foxborough, nonetheless) may depend on one's faith in Jason Garrett out-scheming Bill Belichick and Dak Prescott beating Brady.
I thought of Yogi last week as America witnessed the turning, twisting and scheming of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellTrump faces crucial decisions on economy, guns Are Democrats turning Trump-like?
Mustafa al-Baroni, mayor of the western town of Zintan, also warned that politicians from rival bodies which have overrun their terms are scheming to cling to power, blocking progress at a local level.
Gifted labor union and indigenous leaders, charismatic intellectuals, scheming military officers and persistent mayors and legislators made their way gradually up the ranks of their political parties, their electoral systems and their countries' governments.
Wade — that the landmark abortion case is more useful to it as a mobilizing issue — rests on Supreme Court decisions that were the product less of political scheming and more of happenstance and luck.
With an echo of his Batman growl, Christian Bale brilliantly shape-shifts into another American psycho, the lumbering, scheming vice president who easily manipulates the naïve and insecure W., deliciously played by Sam Rockwell.
There's a whiff of "Romeo and Juliet," as well as moments that feel like precursors to "The Crucible," as wild rumors and a scheming schoolmaster (Jeffrey Grover) threaten to enrage and blind the townspeople.
Trump has frequently accused China of currency devaluation as officials in Beijing remain locked in a prolonged trade conflict with his administration, and he charged last year that Russia had perpetrated similar economic scheming.
The movie, about a poor family scheming its way into working for a wealthy family, has grossed more than $21970 million worldwide, and talks about a limited series adaptation for HBO are already underway.
A maniacal mad king and his court of scheming, self-absorbed princesses and princelings, swathed in the finest silk and the most brazen immorality, ruling with total disregard for the good of their people.
But the arrest of Avenatti for allegedly scheming to conceal assets from creditors, subsequent to being charged in California with 36 criminal counts, including defrauding millions of dollars from clients, may necessitate a delay.
It's a small irony that the demographic assumed to be furthest from happiness seems less clinically and personally preoccupied with reaching it, since the rest of the country's scheming to optimize happiness continues apace.
LONDON — "The Favourite," a dark comedy about palace scheming under Queen Anne in 18th-century Britain, received 12 nominations on Wednesday for the EE British Academy Film Awards, five more than any other film.
After being caught scheming in front of an interdimensional portal, Michael and Janet are forced to come clean to Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, and Jason about what's going on, and the result is somewhat devastating.
With an ineffective political class unable to rise above internal scheming, Iraq is struggling to face its most pressing concerns, the main one being winning the war with the Islamic State and reuniting the country.
What with all the sex, violence, and political scheming that takes place on Game of Thrones, some fans of the HBO series may have somehow convinced themselves they have not become full-on fantasy geeks.
That would prove Cersei's anti-Targaryen propaganda and Varys' scheming to be right all along, and would set Daenerys up as a murderous tyrant who won the game of thrones through indifferent slaughter of innocents.
In fact, Mr Morales's allies are scheming to keep him in office indefinitely, even though, in a referendum last February, Bolivians voted to deny him the right to run for a fourth term in 2019.
His ranting internet manifesto, "The Great Replacement", repeated a staple far-right conspiracy theory: that non-white and Muslim immigrants in Western countries are invaders, ushered in by scheming elites to replace ethnic-European populations.
Big decisions are made that are totally at odds with the last argument the protagonist made, which left me wondering when, during all the shootouts and scheming, he managed to make time for soul-searching.
In a video published over the weekend, the show's cast, led by actress Lena Headey who plays scheming Cersei Lannister, appeal to people across the globe to "rise up" and donate money to the initiative.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jurors in Manhattan federal court on Friday prepared to weigh charges against a Florida software engineer and a New Jersey pastor accused of scheming to help an illegal bitcoin exchange escape scrutiny.
The story highlighted Pruitt's prominent role in what the paper called a "secret alliance" among energy firms, other corporations and state prosecutors scheming behind closed doors to block the EPA's Clean Power Plan in court.
When she later started to become kind of suspicious of him — thank you, Huck (Guillermo Diaz) — she still was so unfazed by his murderous, scheming history to add up to the Liv of seasons past.
These settlements exclude charges announced in April against two former State Street executives for scheming to defraud six clients, including Irish and British government pension funds, through secret commissions on billions of dollars of trades.
All the hand-wringing about Trump's negative impact on the GOP ignores the fact that scheming against him will also have lasting impacts on the working-class voters who are the base of our party.
Yury Baumblit, 65, and an assistant, Edwin Elie, 42, were arraigned in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn on Wednesday on felony charges of scheming to defraud and misdemeanor charges of unlawful eviction and criminal contempt.
In the SEC case, a Manhattan jury in 2014 found the Wylys liable for scheming to hide from investors $550 million in trading profits in the stocks of four companies on whose boards they sat.
Salvini, who has accused his opponents of scheming to keep him out of power, is expected to withdraw the Lega ministers from the cabinet in order to place further pressure on Conte to resign hastily.
Join Josephine Livingstone, Alex Shephard, and Ryu Spaeth as they contribute their little drop to the ocean of Game of Thrones content, which this week will feature Oedipal revelations, furious scheming, and, of course, dragons.
And his answer is: Everyone is responsible — the intelligentsia, the masters of media, the venal oligarchs and scheming politicians and, above all, a nation whose passion for ideas is both its glory and its vulnerability.
The man's hardly been home thanks to his wine merchant duties and the scheming that sees him putting in long hours with the prince, who now wants to meet Duverney, at Maison de Madame Elise.
Set in dewy, woodsy Oregon at an elite university called Beacon Heights, Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists has all the same tricks as its namesake—devious young adults, scheming parents, blackmail, backstabbing, and obviously, gays.
Apparently fueled by anti-Semitism and the bogus narrative that outside forces are scheming to exterminate the white race, Robert Bowers murdered 11 Jewish congregants as they gathered inside their Pittsburgh synagogue, federal prosecutors allege.
"Allies" in secure times, "enemies" in insecure times, high-status minority groups can swiftly become the victims of scapegoating, perceived and portrayed as scheming architects of society's hardships who have to be contained or eliminated.
The film was divisive among critics following its early screenings, but there's no denying that it elicits strong sentiments, both about the events it depicts (wars and political scheming among them) and the filmmaking itself.
Starved of government attention, let alone funding, pan-religious coalitions like the nominally state-backed National Social Democratic Front descended into scheming and bickering, while provincial enthusiasts waited in vain for leadership from the capital.
One of my last bunkies was pitiful: a lying, scheming, thieving addict who ended up having two fistfights within hours over his drug debts and the stealing that he was doing to support his habit.
They tend to spend their last years and hours with unfulfilled longings, nursing old hurts, scheming vengeance, reenacting, reinforcing what has long gone before even after the water under the bridge has all dried up.
It also doesn't even have to be a family member who takes over: Across the centuries, the role has been carried out by civil servants, politicians and an array of scheming dukes, earls, and lords.
Kate Beckinsale charmed so devilishly as a scheming, scarcely grieving widow in "Love & Friendship" — Whit Stillman's 2016 Jane Austen-inspired comedy, distributed by Amazon Studios — that she's now getting an Amazon series of her own.
But in both mediums, the kingdom finally entered the main story in a big way when the Dornish Prince Oberyn Martell arrived at Lannister-ruled King's Landing, and took a central role in the capital's scheming.
Michael appeared in a flashback episode of CW's series about the Archie comics as Veronica Lodge's scheming father, in which stars KJ Apa and Lili Reinhart also took on the roles of their on-screen parents.
In a telephone call with a New Yorker journalist, laced with venom remarkable even by the standards of the Trump White House, Mr Scaramucci accused Mr Priebus of being a scheming leaker disloyal to the president.
Putting aside the question of whether Death Stars are all they're cracked up to be — given their vulnerability to the scheming of Galen Erso and Ewoks — military technology does not by itself make a state strong.
After her father's death, Tomyris skilfully plays her own political game in order to maintain control over ambitious and scheming tribe leaders as Massageteans fight war after war with neighboring tribes and the kingdom of Khwarazm.
But defense attorneys countered that the case against McCarthy relies largely on the word of the girl's mother, Rachelle Bond, a "scheming, manipulative woman," who lied about her daughter's death to cover up her own responsibility.
Instead of the diet that usually dominates China's airwaves—imperial costume dramas and patriotic pabulum about the second world war—these shows offer a peek at contemporary politics: rapacious officials, factional scheming and abuses of power.
As the tribunes whipping up the fever against what they see as, you might say, a rigged election (although they themselves are scheming to manipulate it), Mr. Spinella and Ms. Janson are cool and glibly malevolent.
It's Labor Day weekend – and while many families are enjoying three-day weekends and barbeques at the beach, union bosses are scheming to come up with additional ways to take more from your hard-earned paychecks.
Not just in the sense that this particular cat doesn't need to be here, and probably would be much happier at home doing cat things like batting around a ball of yarn or sitting around scheming.
If that's the case, it might behoove Swift to find a way to reconcile the two poles of her image — a way to be both unapologetically a floof-loving girly girl and a scheming, plotting snake.
With a cast of 12, including Ms. Fellini as the Booth sister Asia and a chorus of four who double as scheming Confederates, it's too crowded with people we don't know well enough to care about.
For Bannon, Moore is an instrument of torture, and after he won the Republican primary less than two weeks ago, Bannon and his allies made clear that the scheming and dark fun had only just begun.
But rather than despairing or scheming for 1930s-style court packing, what progressives need most is a constitutional vision of their own, a vivid picture of what judges should do with the power of the courts.
Perhaps they understood that the presidency might be assumed by someone unmoored from the traditional limitations that have deterred other Oval Office occupants from illegally scheming to advantage themselves at the expense of the public interest.
The one time I laughed out loud is when Mia, furious with Claire's scheming, picks up the golf club she always carries (don't ask; it doesn't matter) and smashes the glass wall of a conference room.
"In scheming the dinner, I tried to conceptually inhabit the nude from without, across media—to treat vegetal and floral flesh as nudes, to extend the notion of what constitutes a nude at all," she said.
Excerpts from the Tuck copies were played by the television and radio networks, however, and for the first time America heard Nixon and his aides scheming to mislead Watergate investigators and humiliate the president's political enemies.
A New York jury last year cleared Ramchandani, alongside two other London-based currency traders, of scheming to rig benchmark exchange rates in the $5.3 trillion-per-day foreign exchange markets after just hours of deliberation.
A man undeserving of trust is asking the American people to believe the intelligence from the same agencies that he spent the last four years denigrating as the "Deep State" — scheming bureaucrats conspiring to undermine him.
Someone among Melville's ragged kin of landed aristocrats and wayward seamen and scheming bankrupts and gloomy widows destroyed the author's letters to his mother along with nearly all of his letters to his brothers and sisters.
As she grows tired of their scheming ways, she finds a companion in J. D. (Christian Slater), a bad-boy newcomer who convinces Veronica to settle her frustrations with her vain classmates once and for all.
He pops up dealing and scheming in some of the sleazier, less reliable Hollywood histories, but in "Hail, Caesar!" he's a straight arrow and effectively an executive suite of one — the only big shot on the lot.
They allege the tobacco industry has been scheming to take over an international program aimed at stemming the flow of tobacco smuggling, while doing little to stop its own products from ending up in the black market.
Ritchie zips past an impressionistic version of the boy's childhood — a whisked-together blur of physical abuse, childhood scheming, and fight lessons — and lands at a point where Arthur has become a streetwise, frequently shirtless Charlie Hunnam.
But Hollywood only knows how to dream big right now, when the truth is, the best moments in this film are the smaller ones — the scheming and snap-crackle-pop wordplay among its gallery of medieval rogues.
Ramona Singer is being sued by a former employee who alleges the reality star underpaid and mistreated her — and defrauded Bravo by scheming the network into paying for clothes that she either already owned or eventually returned.
Rather than hawks scheming to contain China, jumpy nationalists should be worrying about a different group: Americans and Europeans who were once advocates of engagement, but have been disappointed by illiberal, aggressive choices made by Chinese rulers.
Mr Bannon's incessant anti-establishment scheming, including manoeuvres against Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell, has meanwhile prevented him interesting almost any mainstream Republican in his novel ideas, except sometimes the president, who now says he is insane.
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela confirmed the arrest of one lawmaker and ordered the detention of another on Wednesday, accusing the opposition politicians of scheming to assassinate President Nicolas Maduro with explosives-laden drones at a rally last weekend.
And at the center of the scheming and dirty politics is Underwood's loyal chief of staff, Doug Stamper -- a recovering alcoholic, who is back by Frank and Claire Underwood's side, after recovering from a traumatic brain injury.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Florida software engineer was sentenced to 16 months in prison on Friday after being found guilty of scheming to help an illegal bitcoin exchange avoid having banks and regulators look into its activities.
Mr. A was convinced that brown spots on the wall of his living room were caused by asbestos and that his neighbors, the police, and his medical practitioners were scheming to kick him out of his house.
The former president Hamid Karzai is blatantly scheming to bring the government down, arguing that the Ghani administration's mandate expires in September when a loya jirga assembly (a grand council of delegates) should create a new government.
To turn the tables on a scheming lover, Anna adopts the persona of La Malinche, the enslaved ­Nahua woman who served as Cortés's lover and translator, and who is blamed for the destruction of the Aztec ­empire.
After starting "Downton Abbey" as a scheming, Machiavellian mastermind, season six saw Thomas undergo a change of heart, playing with the children of Downton and even attempt to teach an illiterate footman how to read and write.
It's a new article in the New Yorker by Ian Parker about the editor and author Dan Mallory, and it is filled with so many twists and turns, such scheming and brazen lies, that it eclipses fiction.
While Mr. Trump has dismissed the relevance of allegations against Mr. Manafort because they involved business dealings before the campaign, the latest indictment claims that he was scheming to defraud banks while serving as Mr. Trump's chairman.
These shots often elevate the absurdity of the dramatic confrontations, which are comedically great when you remember how trivially stupid the stakes are here, with both characters scheming to get the other person to ask them out.
He is a cynical schemer, but not quite a villain, since his scheming is what enables the regular folk — that is, the ascending movie stars Jean-Louis Trintignant and B.B. herself — to get rich and get laid.
Through three seasons of labyrinthine story lines, an ever-rising body count, boundless scheming and exploitation, and a profusion of depravity that sometimes abruptly transmuted into tenderness, Milch's dialogue transformed the frontier demotic into something baroquely profane.
"They were talking about repealing the Magnitsky Act so that Russian torturers and murderers could freely travel and keep their money in the U.S." Meanwhile, Republicans were scheming to push the "skinny" Obamacare repeal through the Senate.
Plenty of fans saw The Return's casino-owning Mitchum brothers, Rodney (Robert Knepper) and Bradley (Jim Belushi), as the natural get-rich-however-possible scheming continuation of the Horne brothers in the original 1990s run of Twin Peaks.
Seg's scheming fiance Nyssa-Vex (Wallis Day) is downscaled as well — her political maneuvering was a highlight of season 1, but her skills seem to have nearly disappeared as her priorities have narrowed to protecting her infant son.
But for most of a harmonious day, questions about impeachment, widening trade wars, showdowns with Iran and North Korea, Trump's constant political scheming and protests that attest to his unpopularity in the UK seemed relics of another world.
Over the course of nearly 500 pages, they rise through the ranks of the Hollywood's Golden Age, achieving success and acclaim through a cocktail of beauty, talent, scheming, and being in the right place at the right time.
It only seemed like Mulwray was a mistress because he chose to meet with her in a hotel room, which is a great way to cover up far more nefarious scheming with the quotidien deception of an affair.
Perhaps inspired by Matthew Bourne's "Swan Lake" (first staged at Sadler's Wells in 1995), Mr Scarlett gives the ageing Queen a companion: a saturnine, scheming advisor who reappears, transformed, as the swans' evil controller in the lakeside scenes.
Cruel Intentions (1999) The camera spares no details (even the spit) as scheming Kathryn (Sarah Michelle Gellar) helps naïve Cecile (Selma Blair) "practice" her make out skills, complete with a very thorough description of what first base entails.
While she sits on a park bench next to an old woman, while she's at her menial job as a shoe salesman, while she's thrift shopping, and while she's scheming her way through her last years of adolescence.
So get on board with this trailer for Hustlers, loosely based on a true story, about a group of strippers scheming to fleece their sleazy, loaded clients out of more than just a few fistfuls of dollar bills.
But what really rubbed fans the wrong way was her constant scheming, pushiness and aggressive behavior, which resulted in her being sent home after she made a sexy beach photo shoot entirely too close for Brad Womack's comfort.
After almost being sent packing early on, he became a durable if cranky member of the cast, capable of adapting to and allying with a wide range of fellow castaways, including Richard Hatch, the cocky, scheming eventual winner.
As expected, Pixar Animation Studios' Coco won the category, beating out the animated Vincent van Gogh biographical drama Loving Vincent, the passionate drama The Breadwinner, the gentle bull kids' comedy Ferdinand, and the scheming baby comedy Boss Baby.
Agents with knowledge of the email investigation, and a tangential case involving alleged "pay to play" scheming between the Clinton State Department and the Clinton Global Initiative, advise me that McCabe wanted to disassemble the Little Rock, Ark.
Paired with scheming savant head coach Andy Reid, Mahomes has as bright a future as any quarterback we've seen in some time and all of the skills necessary to go down in history as one of the greats.
From early reports about what's contained in the Senate's effort to repeal and replace "Obamacare" it appears that, after weeks of secret plotting and scheming, the Senate bill is not that much different from the House-passed version.
Tabitha's scheming had a combination of bizarre, harebrained devilishness and pop-culture relevance that drew from Bewitched to Carrie to Wicked, making for stirringly absurd attempts at conflict that were outside the bounds of the typical soap opera.
For many women, myself included, medication is at once a game-changer and source of shame, as the national discussion surrounding stimulant usage zeroes in on abuse, addiction, finals cramming, college partying, weight-loss scheming, and professional maneuvering.
Jean-Michel's internal struggle becomes the dominant narrative of the book — gallerists Larry Gagosian and Mary Boone appear as scheming marketers above a disturbing drawing of Basquiat in chains with piles of green dollars showering down on him.
From the scheming of lone extremists, with no apparent connections to terrorist groups, to fighters aligned with the Islamic State or Al Qaeda in more than two dozen countries, terrorist threats are as complex and diverse as ever.
Bob Woodward's best-selling book "Fear" and other accounts have depicted a now-familiar tableau of hapless, scheming aides and an impulsive, erratic president distracted by his legal battles and obsessed with the talking heads on Fox News.
What she sees — what she shows — is both a thriller and epic, a tale of conspiratorial, self-interested scheming that is at the same time a saga of large historical forces and epochal shifts in power and ideology.
And which of the men in her life — Eric (Frederick Weller), her con-man boyfriend; Joel (Garrett Hedlund), the striving artist living in her barn; or one of the scheming high-rollers on her mountaintop — did the deed?
The day I visited, the restaurant was crowded with dewy young people who had stopped in for a working lunch, scheming future plans over $19 Wagyu beef burgers and avocado toast topped with cured salmon and whole chiles.
Haughty, cold, very good at getting information from drunk men and blackmailing sober ones, we understand how formidable she could be, and what a shame it is that her only chance at scheming is forcing Jamie into bed.
WASHINGTON — For years, opponents of the nuclear deal with Iran have accused Benjamin J. Rhodes, a top national security aide to President Barack Obama, of scheming to sell the diplomatic agreement on false pretenses to the American people.
A few years ago, Jaisinghani began scheming about another place, something casual by day and elegant by night, and found herself drawn to New York—her daughter lives here and manages the restaurant while Jaisinghani commutes from Texas.
This 1668 play about a penny-pinching father, Harpagon, and his scheming children is a revered classic in France, and the translator Justin Fleming here attempts to find an English substitute for the formidable rhythm of Molière's dialogue.
Ex-NBA star Kermit Washington claims he's NOT the charity scheming scumbag officials say he is ... pleading NOT GUILTY to charges he stole thousands of dollars from a organization that was supposed to help needy families in Africa.
However, unbeknownst to Fury, Loki is scheming in the shadows: Then in The Avengers, prior to everything spinning into chaos and an intergalactic invasion, it's revealed that the lab where Selvig has been working is called … Project Pegasus!
On the one hand, you can't blame Connor and Michaela for not wanting to be involved with Annalise's scheming, but on the other, it's kind of shitty of them not to help Wes after all they've been through together.
" Hannah then points out that Cam was apparently writing letters to the guys ("Huh?" he says unconvincingly), and throws out the words "scheming" and "slimy," to which thick-as-molasses Cam responds, "It sounds like you don't trust me.
Intellectually, I can tell myself these bathroom bills are the product of cynical backroom scheming: When same-sex marriage became legal nationwide in 2015, anti-LGBT hate groups needed a new scapegoat to stay relevant and keep raising money.
This is because PJ Hairston has very little concept of fair play and he's headed to the team that will know how best to mold him into the widely hated wing defender that lives, scheming, deep in his liver.
It looks like we get to spend some more time with Samwell Tarly (John Bradley-West) and Gilly (Hannah Murray), who were responsible for sending Jon news of the dragonglass, and appear to still be scheming in the shadows.
Republicans hope they don't need Democratic votes for the bulk of their tax plan, which they are scheming to squeeze through Congress and around normal rules by passing it as part of a budget process that skirts the filibuster.
The Bridgegate verdict was handed down on Friday and, to no one's surprise, the jury found two former Chris Christie aides guilty of scheming to close lanes on the George Washington Bridge to punish one of Christie's political rivals.
Elle Fanning looking scheming and regal as the future Catherine the great, Nicholas Hoult as her bumbling husband Peter III of Russia, and most of all — the exact same energy of creator Tony McNamara's Oscar-nominated film The Favourite.
This episode sees our five scheming socialites falling deeper into the web of secrets and lies that have surrounded them, as family tensions, spousal betrayals, and devastating reveals about sexual assault and domestic violence all churn to the surface.
In a separate deal, Mr. Baumblit also pleaded guilty in Brooklyn Supreme Court to scheming to defraud tenants by evicting them illegally, putting their belongings on the street, removing their mattresses and preventing them from cooking by breaking stoves.
Bottle by bottle, coin by hard-earned coin, Xenopoulou saved money to pay for her escape: first to Athens, then London and finally Brussels, home of moules-frites, cherry beer and a convoluted European bureaucracy fit for her scheming.
"We filed this lawsuit to stop Vyera's egregious conduct, make the company pay for its illegal scheming, and block Martin Shkreli from ever working in the pharmaceutical industry again," New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) said on Monday.
"The threat is more diverse than I have ever known: plots developed here in the UK, but plots directed from overseas as well, plots online, complex scheming and also crude stabbings, lengthy planning but also spontaneous attacks," said Parker.
When Richard the Lionheart set off on the Third Crusade in 1190, he had a choice of regents to look after England: his scheming, treacherous, troublemaking brother, John (later King John); or trusted, efficient and loyal courtier William Longchamp.
I am reminded that the West was, among other things, the South's attempt at a second act in American life, with all of the continuity and disjunction, the striving and scheming, the reinvention and self-deception that that implies.
Even though the stakes happen to be of national importance, it is possible to identify, in terms both passionate and prosaic, with every person onstage — even the scheming, regicidal Claudius, whose ambition eats away at him like a cancer.
After that season, the show evolved into more of an ensemble workplace sitcom—" Parks and Recreation ," Kiev style, with a cabinet of outsiders finding clever ways to procure I.M.F. funding while passing reforms, against the will of scheming oligarchs.
"We filed this lawsuit to stop Vyeras egregious conduct, make the company pay for its illegal scheming, and block Martin Shkreli from ever working in the pharmaceutical industry again," New York Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement.
Chip is scheming to insure the longevity of his own career, and is about to leak another story about TSM  (his second or third — it's basically confirmed he leaked at least one of the Mitch stories) with Cory's help.
No matter how many experts — including the gloriously bracing Fiona Hill — explain that it is Russia that interfered with our elections and that Russia has been scheming to deflect blame to Ukraine, Trump keeps rambling about that D.N.C. server.
Kiddie claimed that this was because she had bitten him and said she had AIDS, but he was deemed "dishonest" and "scheming" after he tried to convince a witness to lie for him, and was struck from the force.
But Irina is a particularly ugly, scheming spider woman who spins her web while running her yarmulke-wearing thugs, ominously cooing at her young nephew (Blake McLennan) and forcing his desperate father, Michael (Chiwetel Ejiofor), to do very bad things.
The most likely suspect, in my opinion, is forever scheming Hiram Lodge (Mark Consuelos), who, at the end of the episode, is bench-pressing and plotting from his new home in Lodge Industries Prison, which may as well be called Hiramland.
He was ultimately convicted of defrauding investors in the funds, MSMB Capital and MSMB Healthcare, by sending them fake account statements and concealing huge losses, and of scheming to prop up the stock price of the drug company, Retrophin Inc .
In the video, entitled "TAKING 9ft TEDDY BEAR ON AN AIRPLANE (cops came,)" Paul shows reactions of those in the airport and the scheming that took place as he, the bear and his friend made their way to the security line.
And as fun as it is, the scheming in Parasite is unsustainable, with the Kims eventually colliding head-on with another lower-class family's entirely different con (the reveal of which is one of my favorite movie moments of the decade).
Tom Hiddleston has once again slipped into character as Thor and The Avengers' scheming nemesis, showing up with costar Chris Hemsworth on the set on Thor: Ragnarok in Brisbane, Australia, as he sported the God of Mischief's trademark long, oily 'do.
Everybody—parents, teachers—kept telling us if we congregated together it would look like trouble, so to stay separate and not associate with each other because your teachers were going to think you were all scheming and up to some shit.
But it seems the defense believes the best chance of getting Manafort off the hook is to portray Gates as a scheming sellout, and hope the jury focuses on doubts about his forthrightness rather than the other witnesses or documents here.
With its quotable quips and knowing stories about a budget-conscious father, a judgmentally religious mother, and perpetually scheming brothers, The Kids Are Alright is its own confident and accomplished version of what all those other good shows have been doing.
Misgivings over the politicisation of the commission will have been heightened by Mr Juncker's decision this week to appoint Martin Selmayr, his scheming chief of staff, as secretary-general of the commission: a powerful bureacratic job for a divisive figure.
His hotheaded brother Lincoln Burrows (Dominic Purcell) hunts him down, finding Michael under a different name in a Yemen, where Michael again proves himself to be the smartest, most scheming guy in the room, especially if it's a prison cell.
We're unfortunately complicit in 20 years' worth of right-wing efforts to paint Clinton as a scheming crook, so we must now either confess that we painted a caricature, or figure out a way to launder our role in her victory.
The charges against the defendants, who include stock promoters, brokers and investor relations officials, were unveiled a little over a year after former ForceField Executive Chairman Richard St. Julien was criminally charged with scheming to inflate his company's stock price.
Entertainment Weekly announced earlier this month that Michael, who currently attends New York University, would be taking on the role of young Hiram Lodge — a perfect fit as the adult version of the scheming mobster is played by his father.
Even the most committed radicals tend carefully to their online accounts, perhaps with an ironic disavowal, an alter ego, or corrupted profile photo—sly acknowledgements that the content they produce is ultimately owned by venture capitalists, sold to scheming advertisers.
" Today he blames the scheming suits that want rappers "to talk nonsense, bitch about their lives, boast about their women, their drugs, their money, their ego - as long as it isn't relevant to the liberation of the people's hearts and minds.
A U.S. judge on Tuesday dismissed a unit of Reckitt Benckiser Group plc from a lawsuit by state attorneys general accusing it and spin-off Indivior Plc of scheming to block generic competition of the opioid addiction treatment drug Suboxone.
" In a high-profile speech on August 4, Trump himself warned that terrorists from Somalia and other Muslim countries were scheming to gain entrance to the United States by posing as refugees, calling it "the great Trojan horse of all time.
Dianne FeinsteinDianne Emiel FeinsteinTrump administration urges Congress to reauthorize NSA surveillance program The Hill's Morning Report - More talk on guns; many questions on Epstein's death Juan Williams: We need a backlash against Big Tech MORE (D-Calif.) and her scheming staff.
Adviser emails showed an enthusiasm for the program that sounded more like outtakes of a Hollywood movie about financial scheming, not what investors might think are the internal emails of one of the largest wealth management companies in the United States.
With the exception of Ian McDiarmid, who confidently plays the scheming Senator Palpatine like this is the story of his rise to power and not Anakin's, the cast, from Natalie Portman to an Alec Guinness–aping Ewan McGregor, are uniformly wooden.
As the sun sets over the Martian horizon, we will explain how, despite this societal arrangement, our species spent an inordinate amount of time scheming ways to work, game, and cheat this system so as to maximize returns and minimize efforts.
And, in the limited part of the scheming Princess de Bouillon, the Georgian mezzo Anita Rachvelishvili again astounded the ears with her vast, rich, explosive voice, which has the effect of making the Met's cavernous space shrink to black-box dimensions.
And whether brilliant architects, scheming second-raters, proto-Communist demagogues (boo, hiss!), a king-making newspaper publisher or the self-lacerating fire-and-ice goddess they all love, these characters conduct themselves with an ardent faith in their own importance.
Ron DeSantis (R) have both pledged to return thousands in campaign donations made by 2 foreign-born Trump donors who were arrested this week for allegedly scheming to buy influence with U.S. politicians, Vice News and the Miami Herald report.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Travis Kalanick, chief executive officer of Uber Technologies Inc, failed on Thursday to win the dismissal of an antitrust lawsuit accusing him of scheming to drive up prices for passengers who use the popular ride-sharing service.
Trouble looms when Natasha, dazzled by the heady whirl of Moscow society, falls prey to the charms of Anatole (the amusingly preening Lucas Steele), a womanizer who enlists his sister, Hélène (Amber Gray, glamorous and scheming), to help win her affections.
Early last month, a federal court jury in Washington took only four hours to acquit former Obama White House counsel Greg Craig on a charge of scheming to deceive the Justice Department's foreign-agent registration unit about his work for Ukraine.
Forbes, which remains the go-to for those trying to calculate the mountains of ill-gotten boodle amassed by scheming oligarchs the world over, estimated that Castro grew his net worth into the hundreds of millions during his 50-year reign.
The consequences were far-reaching — Ned's execution, the War of the Five Kings, the deaths of his brothers Renly and Stannis, the cruel rule of King Joffrey, the impotent rule of King Tommen, the fall and ascension of his scheming widow.
So it has seemed that Mr. Schneiderman, or his state office, possessed legal kryptonite that would stop scheming by the White House to avoid the snares of the special prosecutor, Robert S. Mueller III, whose authority is over federal crimes.
But even more than in the original series, the heart of the show is Orlando's nimble, delicate comic performance as Voiello, the scheming but soulful pragmatist who will do just about anything to protect the church — even dispose of inconvenient popes.
But even more than in the original series, the heart of the show is Orlando's nimble, delicate comic performance as Voiello, the scheming but soulful pragmatist who will do just about anything to protect the church — even dispose of inconvenient popes.
If you were to create a list of literature's most hated sisters, it would contain Pride and Prejudice's selfish Lydia Bennet; King Lear's scheming eldest daughters, Goneril and Regan; Cinderella's wicked stepsisters… and the youngest sister from Little Women: Amy March.
You're constantly losing the family fortune, battling White Walkers, saving human souls from eternal damnation, scheming to takeover the Los Angeles sect of the Chechen mob, or taking on some other gargantuan task you have no idea how to handle.
In May, a federal grand jury in New York City indicted Calk for scheming to use the loan approvals to win an economic advisory post on the Trump 24.6 presidential campaign and to seek a job in the Trump administration.
And yet there will clearly be more human scheming too, as Cersei Lannister has decided to break her agreement with Jon and Dany, holding her army back from the North in hopes of maintaining her grip on the Iron Throne.
Riverdale series creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa spoke about the character during New York Comic-Con 2019 back in October, hinting that Hermosa "is as scheming as her father," and "just like daddy, but a woman so more dangerous" (via Seventeen).
We know from the trailer that the Resistance will be attacked; Rey will keep learning to hone her Jedi powers; R2D2 is up to some kind of scheming, as R2D2 is wont to do; BB8 continues to roll loyally by Poe's side.
One of the key differences between the books and the TV series is that the TV show long ago realized the bitter, scheming Lannisters deserved to be at its center, in the grand tradition of primetime soaps built around the truly despicable.
Photo: GettyTen former and current Tinder executives, including some of its founders, filed a lawsuit against the dating app's owners IAC and Match Group on Tuesday, accusing them of scheming to intentionally lower Tinder's valuation and cheat employees out of billions of dollars.
Uther and Arthur's ultimate magical enemy is a horn-helmeted barbarian behemoth straight out of Frank Frazetta's Death Dealer paintings, but Arthur's scheming crew of anti-Vortigern rebels feels more like a down-to-earth intrigue cabal stolen from Game Of Thrones.
Accounts differ on how CEO Henry Ford II did the deed and who was at fault: Ford's defenders have painted Iacocca as always scheming to get the top job, while Iacocca himself claimed Ford told him he just didn't like his underling.
The lawsuit filed Thursday accuses Kalanick of concealing a range of misdeeds from the board and scheming to retain power at the company even after he was forced to resign as chief executive of Uber in June following a series of scandals.
Case in point: It's not hard to imagine the matchmaking, scheming Emma as a spoiled teenager in Beverly Hills in the mid-'90s (as she was in Clueless), or Elizabeth Bennet as an Indian girl bucking her family's traditional conventions (in Bride & Prejudice).
Despite Claire and Doug's scheming, the latter is still talking smack about the former to potential new clients like Illinois congressman Brett Cole (Boris Kodjoe) and intimating she's a husband killer during car chats with FBI deputy director Nathan Green (Jeremy Holm).
The high-finance drama is hyper-focused on the dueling testosterone-soaked worlds of Axe Capital hedge fund (led by Damien Lewis' scheming Bobby Axelrod) and the Southern District of New York's U.S. Attorney's office (commanded by Paul Giamatti's growling Charles Rhoades).
As recently as 20203, when John F. Kennedy eked out a win over Richard Nixon possibly thanks to some scheming on his behalf by Democratic allies in Texas and Illinois, it was far from crazy to worry about the integrity of national elections.
His voice cracked as he spoke of the "gift" of his nomination and his love for his family, his nation and the Constitution, coming across as the modest and personable antithesis of the scheming, agenda-driven vortex into which he had just stepped.
Originally designed by board gaming maestro Eric Lang, A Game of Thrones: The Card Game takes everything you've come to expect from its source material—political scheming, sinister magic, sudden and horrible death—and distills it into a condensed and dangerously addictive formula.
If you missed Victoria Beckham's massive collection for Target when it hit stores and the retailer's site last month — or didn't snag quite as many items as you'd been scheming to grab — now's your chance to stock up, at a discount, no less.
If recent days' shameful spectacles – the ridiculous Strzok hearing, and the president's refusal to confront Putin as the scheming antagonist he is – don't convince more Republicans to put country over party and sign onto this bill, I truly don't know what will.
The reclusive politician, who ran for president eight times including once from federal prison after his conviction on charges of scheming to defraud the IRS, lived out the later years of his life in a Leesburg, Va. compound, according to The Washington Post.
Books of The Times Advances in publishing industry marketing have allowed G. P. Putnam's Sons to bring forth "Maestra," a pornographic shopathon travelogue thriller that has billionaires, art world scheming and a sociopathic heroine who can unfasten belt buckles with her tongue.
Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard team up as the scheming Scot and his wife in Justin Kurzel's beautifully brooding adaptation of this Shakespeare tragedy, its scenes of carnage periodically slowed down so that every drop of blood and bit of mud can linger.
Lisa, the femme fatale played by an awkward 20-year-old Daniels (who had no idea what she was getting into), is presented like a sultry Victoria's Secret model, even though her lines are more appropriate for a scheming daytime television matriarch.
Now, with his campaign manager from that race, Joseph Percoco, convicted on Tuesday, Mr. Cuomo must concede that, at best, he did not know about the corrupt scheming occurring in the adjacent office by a man he has likened to a brother.
In a movie with no shortage of sex, lies, and scheming, the most oft-referenced moment is this less-than-romantic scene between Kathryn and Cecile, when Kathryn helps Cecile practice "first base" (she's really trying to manipulate Cecile and ruin her life).
Every faction in each of the two main parties will be fighting and scheming for its preferred result, from a "no-deal Brexit" to a softer departure that leaves Britain closer to the European Union to abandoning the idea of leaving altogether.
The word Shakespearean often attaches itself to the Nixon administration — it's an adjective that marks the place where political power intersects with moral instability — and "Mark Felt" tries to infuse some dramatic grandeur into what is in essence a chronicle of bureaucratic scheming.
Even better, it unearths all kinds of new drama, as its scheming socialites try to resume their lives after the events of season one, while evading the scrutiny of the cops, the town, and the mother of the man they may have killed.
Alec Brook-Krasny, who served in the New York State Assembly from 2006 to 2015 representing South Brooklyn, was charged with conspiracy and scheming to defraud by unlawfully selling prescriptions, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's New York division said in a statement.
In Otto Preminger's "Bonjour Tristesse" (1958), one of the founding texts of modern villa cinema, Deborah Kerr's car plunges from the corniche road outside St.-Tropez onto the rocks below, a grisly denouement to a few weeks of scheming, deceit and erotic psychodrama.
With little regard for the truth — he was previously fired by The Times of London for making up a quote — Mr. Johnson wrote about a Europe scheming to impose standard condom sizes and ban his country's beloved prawn-cocktail-flavored chips (both untrue).
Nor has the new era of genetic testing revealed a tsunami of misattributed paternity, despite the impression you get from daytime TV or from men's-rights groups, which conjure up an epidemic of paternity fraud perpetrated by scheming, birth-control-eschewing women.
" As Hall explains, Aristotle, who lived "at close quarters with the tyrannical Macedonian royal family, the ruthless Phillip II and his scheming wives, concubines and lieutenants, all jockeying for position at court, seems to have meticulously observed the misery of immoral people.
And on the big screen, as Washington sorts through Trump's dirty laundry, get a refresher on the Panama Papers with Meryl Streep's new movie "The Laundromat," about an American from the Midwest trying to navigate the scheming world of offshore financial services.
The word "bitch" has of late taken on a new life for the actress, thanks in part to a generation of young women raised on her confident, scheming characters in late-'220s features like Romy and Michele's High School Reunion and Superstar.
Being accused of scheming to whisk away a would-be political prisoner in the dead of night would dramatically raise the stakes, however, and could make it easier for Mueller to lean on Flynn in hopes he might flip on the president who hired him.
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A former Insys Therapeutics Inc executive convicted of scheming to bribe doctors to prescribe the company's opioid is planning to seek a new trial by arguing that his lawyers at Weil Gotshal & Manges, which now represents the drugmaker in bankruptcy proceedings, had a conflict.
Klam's study gives us a playful look at the absurd ways celebrity has shaped our very serious feelings about everyone from scheming Bachelorette contestants to Audrey Hepburn, dwelling hilariously on how strange our day-to-day obsession with, say, Beyoncé's Instagram feed, really is.
Throughout the course of the two seasons, his four children — heir apparent Kendall (Jeremy Strong), political fixer Shiv (Sarah Snook), snarky smart aleck Roman (Kieran Culkin) and libertarian weirdo Connor (Alan Ruck) — all take turns vying for their father's attention and scheming against him.
For example, even in the book, a couple of the expedition members felt rather sketched in, but I still wish they'd been more memorable here, and that the scheming psychologist who leads the team had made the transition with more of her story intact.
Every year that we delay means people being denied care by insurers who are always scheming ways to make a fatter profit, another year of families paying insane costs that break their budget, another year of people literally dying for lack of decent care.
The Tidelanders' stories are similarly half-baked, centering around a brewing coup against Adrielle by the scheming Violca (Madeleine Madden), who never offers any reason why she'd make a better queen, apart from bribing her fellows with a bigger cut of the drug money.
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Soon the friendship between the two women becomes something more, and as tensions rise, Lizzie discovers that her parents might be sending her away, while putting her inheritance under the control of her scheming uncle John Morse (Denis O'Hare, playing the role with slimy relish).
Ms. Allen was one of the first black performers with a recurring role on a network series, appearing (sometimes uncredited) as a member of the Women's Army Corps on "The Phil Silvers Show," the CBS military comedy that starred Silvers as the scheming Sergeant Bilko.
That sense of threat isn't just a specific pitfall for the protagonists — if anything, Castle Rock and Sharp Objects suggest that the threat of scheming killers and lurking madness touches everyone in their settings, but that it takes an outsider to see it clearly.
It also cast her as an inveterate do-gooder, diving into thankless, unsexy social work from the second she graduated from college, a portrait that could not be further from the scheming Lady Macbeth version of Hillary that we are all so familiar with.
NEW YORK, June 14 (Reuters) - Andrew Caspersen, the Wall Street executive accused of scheming to defraud investors out of as much as $95 million, is expected to appear in federal court on Tuesday as prosecutors file papers that often indicate a plea may follow later.
He did a segment about "white genocide," the baseless conspiracy theory that immigration and [rising] nonwhite birthrates constitute a form of genocide by making whites a minority in the United States, who will then be wiped out by "evil scheming Jews" puppet-mastering nonwhite people.
The report comes on the heels of a college admissions scandal, in which wealthy parents and others have been accused or convicted of scheming to help their children cheat on college entrance exams or bribe athletic coaches to help their children enter competitive universities.
Above all, Mr. Trump's choice of Mr. Pence is a gesture to Republicans whose money he needs to win, and a move to pacify any conservatives who were scheming to derail his nomination at the convention until they were thwarted by party officials this week.
A federal judge has rejected a motion to sanction lawyers at Berger & Montague and Bragar Eagel & Squire who sued Sumo Capital for allegedly scheming with other dealers to manipulate the stock options market, ruling that plaintiffs' claims were not frivolous though they were ultimately dismissed.
Newspaper editorials and social media are awash with fears the poll may be delayed due to behind-the-scenes scheming by "anti-democratic forces" - yet another euphemism used to describe the army and its spy bodies, including the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency.
The travails of the young lovers — Hermia (Noelle Franco) and her Lysander (Kevin Shewey), Helena (Lauriel Friedman) and her hard-won Demetrius (Daniel Patrick Smith) — got a bit lost, while the scheming of Oberon (Clay Storseth) and the mischief of Puck were similarly muted.
She and a co-defendant, Bill Baroni, a top Christie appointee at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, are accused of scheming, then covering up, the closing of lanes at the George Washington Bridge, causing an epic four-day traffic jam.
Flummoxed and craven Republicans scramble to go along with a president who has turned the traditional heroes and villains of the G.O.P. topsy-turvy, berating our European allies, NATO, the N.F.L., the F.B.I. and the C.I.A., and canoodling with the mendacious and scheming Russians.
Johnson, raging privately that McNamara had turned soft, also suspected him of secretly scheming to prod Robert Kennedy, then a Democratic senator from New York, to run on a peace ticket in the presidential election the following year, challenging Johnson for the Democratic nomination.
Amid their mostly useless plotting and scheming to save her, Cesare takes stock of his own existence (denying, of course, that he would ever do such a thing) — and stumbles toward a kind of peace with his family, his friends and his dubious life choices.
Not to be outdone, Julianne Moore, who plays the vampish, scheming Poppy Lane, head of the Golden Circle, wears Kingsman cosmetics: a bright red lipstick named Poppy Lane and a Kingsman-titled nail polish sold online by the supermodel Claudia Schiffer, Mr. Vaughn's wife.
MINNEAPOLIS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the spring of 2014, as Islamic State seized ground in Syria, a group of 10 young Somali-American men in Minneapolis began scheming to join the battle between games of basketball at a neighborhood mosque, a jury found on Friday.

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