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Example sentences for: machinations

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The Italian press was more interested in the political machinations that led to the cancellation of a planned referendum on electoral reform.
His rise to power is a tale of back-stabbing and machinations.
I'm tempted to give Murakami the benefit of the doubt--to say, even, that his pat machinations force his readers into his crowd of wound-up dolls (of whom most died, remember, "plunging over the edge of the table").
(The last film for which I have unqualified admiration is Robert Duvall's The Apostle .) I was enraged by the killing of the Iraqi mother in Three Kings and resented some of the jokiness and formula machinations that followed in its wake.
(Grabbe's conspiracy-theory net is so wide that it encompasses Clinton's alleged cocaine habit, the "bombing" of Ron Brown's plane, Foster's espionage history, the machinations of Bert Lance, and the bribery of Mike Wallace.)