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Example sentences for: machinations

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Paxon's hasty departure and whatever invisible machinations lie behind it show that the devil makes work for idle hands.
The Italian press was more interested in the political machinations that led to the cancellation of a planned referendum on electoral reform.
One Congress member is quoted as seeing in the Fed's Long-Term machinations an example of one set of rules for welfare mothers, another for rich people in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Cut loose from the scripted charade of the campaign beat, Elena McMahon gets caught up in the machinations of one of those male dealers in dangerous merchandise, her father, Dick McMahon.
The problem was that in the midst of pre-indictment machinations in the Rostenkowski case, a bigger client came along in the shape of the president, who hired the much-touted Bennett when his reputation for genius was at its highest.