| Mr Williams and others who write to the papers contrive to imply that council staff are uniquely undeserving idle bureaucrats or lazy workmen. |
| Though they have nothing they contrive, somehow, to keep their self respect, the very antithesis of the dependency culture which has grown up in our own country. |
| She knows that she must not run and yet, desperate as she is, cannot contrive an escape plan. |
| But for the moment, I am pleased to have been given this chance to contrive my own fable and plead my own case before the necrologists get at me. |
| It was common practice for provincial clockmakers to contrive a skeleton clock as a window display. |
| The Executive's advertising campaigns contrive to be both insulting and ineffectual. |
