machination

To be sure, the international machinations are not yet over.

The question was how to make use of these machinations.

As if she would just fall in with his machinations!

And here he was, at the very center of all this machination.

Word was brought late at night to the governor of these machinations.

Why go through all the machinations of having this meeting in the park?

And a good man was to be killed by Media machinations at the same time.

He had always performed his machinations with others in mind.

No matter what political machinations were taking place, in the end the fire destroyed the school.

He knows the machinations of combat better than we do.

And who had set in motion the machinations that brought those two together?

And, she decided, better prepared to deal with his brother's machinations.

Their machinations may have been just the impetus he needed.

Thus, all their machinations may just be another way of saying this or that event took place.

However, wider political machinations also seem to have played a part.

"What good did all these machinations do them in the end?

"There is no political machination behind this," one official said.

They didn't need to go through all those physical machinations.

Never mind that this fantasy is itself a machination of the art world.

Other parents said that the machinations at the school made it difficult for them to assess how well their children were doing.

I made machinations to save myself and rescue the Rock.

I care about people possibly being hurt or killed by the machinations of this woman.

How many more machinations are developing that we may not discover until too late?

The great work must progress despite the machinations of those who would prevent it.

Obama, for his part, called the machinations in Congress a "dangerous game."