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So while the upper level machinations are being machinated, and assuming that Obama is indeed the shrewdest gambler since Kenny Rogers, then why not in the meantime give the majority of Americans who voted Obama into office on a swell of hope a show they can actually get behind?

Steven Weber: Team Dispirit Steven Weber 2011

In 1814, with the armies that had fought Napoleon across the Continent at the gates of Paris, Talleyrand machinated to restore Bourbon rule.

Charm Offensive 2007

He machinated for this purpose, and "[d] uring the 1952 presidential campaign .... made a series of speeches accusing the Truman administration of weakness in the face of Communist advances."

Lessons From The Philippines Insurrection And Our Overthrow Of Mossadegh, Part II. 2007

The young, lovely widow dithered between laughter and tears as her three photogenic (if genetically improbable) children machinated to get themselves a new daddy.

Murder to Go Lathen, Emma, pseud 1969

-- Rolland, I think, was the founder of these modern Franciscans, and with this miserable affectation he machinated the death of the King, and, during some months, procured for himself the exclusive direction of the government.

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part II., 1793 Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners An English Lady

He still kept a greedy eye on the Orange Free State, and machinated for the union of the two States into a gigantic whole.

South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 Louis Creswicke

-- Rolland, I think, was the founder of these modern Franciscans, and with this miserable affectation he machinated the death of the King, and, during some months, procured for himself the exclusive direction of the government.

A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners An English Lady

The Armadillos were as shadows of a dark, machinated dream.

Oberheim (Voices) Christopher Leadem

"Greywolf" caps the EP with twinkling sci-fi music that gives way to a machinated wheeze, and features the ramblings of a man.

The Seattle Times 2011

Rolland, I think, was the founder of these modern Franciscans, and with this miserable affectation he machinated the death of the King, and, during some months, procured for himself the exclusive direction of the government.

A Residence in France During the Years 1792 1793 1794 and 1795 Lady, An English 1797