machination

How To Use machination In A Sentence

• They will not see through the superficial machinations of modern baaskap whose heart is filled with envy at seeing the dream becoming true, of a people united in a social contract, working together black and white, to determine a better future for themselves. SPEECH BY NKOSINATHI NHLEKO, CHIEF WHIP OF THE MAJORITY PARTY ON THE STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS
• It would not further confuse a public who already find the machinations of Westminster almost unfathomable. Times, Sunday Times
• Within less than 300 pages, he tells the whole complicated story of 13th century Mediterranean history - the struggles of the Hohenstaufen dynasty to maintain their power as Holy Roman Emperors after the death of Frederick II; the growth of the power of Aragon; the political machinations by the Popes; the doggedness of the Byzantine emperor Michael Paleologus. The Sicilian Vespers, by Sir Steven Runciman
• Instead, we now have a 60 minute animated movie that tells us the story in excruciating detail, and adds a whole new series of plot twists and machinations.
• He wrote a book called The Prince in which he described the amoral maneuvers and machinations of men in power.
• Students are too busy having fun and learning how to get rich to join in the political machinations of their teachers. Times, Sunday Times
• The script does a poor job of explaining the complicated sociopolitical machinations that many believe will accompany the end-time.
• I don't want to get involved in all his machinations.
• An outsider's account of the machinations involved makes fascinating reading.
• He was perhaps the crookedest lawyer I had ever come across; it still smarted that eighteen months before I had been forced to abandon a case against him through the ruthless machinations of his patron, Richard Rich. Excerpt: Revelation by C.J. Sansom