| Even if you manage to get them in, they will contrive to escape at the first opportunity. |
| The real miracle, though, is that you could contrive a way to have a food crisis. |
| As a consequence story-writers are forced to contrive elaborate plots that just go on and on and on. |
| It is against this backdrop that the Bush Administration decided to contrive the border problem between the two sisterly countries. |
| 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. |
| And truly the point is not to contrive a precise plan or even to pass a plan that does all of the above. |
