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nouna secret plan to achieve an evil or illegal end

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nouna crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends

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The fact that he could find no safe means for accomplishing both these ends simultaneously was all that had protected either from his machinations.
Be frustrate, all ye stratagems of Hell, And, devilish machinations, come to nought!" So they in Heaven their odes and vigils tuned.
and constant machinations of Popery, a preservation so strange and
And she began, forthwith, to tell her story--a tale so neat, simple, and artless that it was quite evident from hearing her that if ever there was a white-robed angel escaped from heaven to be subject to the infernal machinations and villainy of fiends here below, that spotless being--that miserable unsullied martyr, was present on the bed before Jos--on the bed, sitting on the brandy-bottle.
HB 8204 provides a broader definition of game-fixing by including the acts of point-shaving and game machination as prohibited acts in professional or amateur sports competitions.
Rachid Ammar a affirme a Ramzi Bettibi qu'on n'est pas en train d'assister a du terrorisme , mais a une machination (لعبة ) , ajoutant qu'on n'est pas en train de vivre du terrorisme , mais une machination , et que jusqu'a present on n'a rien vu .
He added: "Cllr Foulkes and his previous administrations have allowed the public service culture of the council to become warped into one of back covering, secrecy, intimidation and machination and one that failed to act in the interest of some of the most vulnerable people in our society." * OPINION: Page 19 online GO BEHIND the headlines with our Wirral journalists at www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/hamiltonsquared
THE Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has vowed that nobody can rig the July 14, 2018, Ekiti governorship election, despite what it says is the machination by the All Progressives Congress (APC) working with some compromised Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) officials and security agencies.
However, the government in collaboration with the people, would frustrate any such machination.
366, Legarda proposed to amend Articles 363 and 364 of the Revised Penal Code to increase the penalty for the crime of incriminatory machination or implicating a crime to an innocent person or sowing intrigue to tarnish another person's reputation.
Ologbodiyan added: 'Having failed in their corruption smear campaign against the PDP and many notable Nigerians, the APC and the Presidency cabal have now devised a devious machination to rope in, frame up, implicate and ultimately incarcerate marked opposition leaders and other dissenting voices over fabricated security charges.
Occupied with tumult, potent ingeniously interwoven plots within a plot, stratagems, snappy dialog, machination and wondrous creatures Merlin's Kin is filled with the elements of a first rate fantasy.
Instead it calls upon Catholics to embrace "China's Platform for the Development of Women." Full text and an assessment ("Hypocrisy or tactful machination") may be found in the monthly Catholic International, Jan.
Invisible Rendezvous is an excellent and entertaining meditation on the connections between site-specific performance and cyberspace, recombinant culture and creative community, machination and identity, multiplicity and expression.