| But to generalize from there to a secret cabal of Muslims in the military poised for terrorist action is more than a little bit of a stretch. |
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| But there is always a sense of foreboding on such occasions because of the secretive, mafia-like management by a cabal of political operators. |
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| The resulting feud ravaged the Australian side of the 1930s and 1940s until Bradman finally purged O'Reilly's cabal. |
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| At this point He could be fairly accused of being a cabal of anti-car puritans. |
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| They all contend that the world is being secretly ruled by a shadowy cabal from inside a secret room. |
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| There is no possibility of a centralized cabal that could appoint people of only one political coloration. |
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| Polluters use the term freely, hinting about a dark cabal of devious greens plying the fear trade for personal gain. |
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| But as a member of the inner cabinet or cabal, his judgement seems less good than his spirit. |
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| Observe as a cabal of billionaires cadges an election and takes over the country, waging war and short-sheeting the citizenry. |
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| It is a coerced transfer of income from consumers and foreign businesses to a small, politically active cabal of domestic businesses. |
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| A cabal of developers and architect-engineers has produced a plan to redevelop the docklands on Istanbul's Asian shore. |
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| Indeed, I would argue that the King is the absent thing at work in this literary cabal, hidden by its very conspicuousness. |
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| If there is in existence a genuine cabal of intrigue and perfidy, the logical targets of such accusations were surely the members of the regime. |
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| This angers a cabal of evil businessmen, who somehow are profiting from the bad times, so they conspire to bring the new agency down. |
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| They're not a secret cabal that runs things from the shadows or anything, but they are important opinion leaders who happen to be very influential. |
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| But wait, Ross reveals another shocking secret of the capitalist cabal. |
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| Will she corrupt the nimble-fingered, embroidery-adept new valet Lang and recruit him into her cabal? |
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| It is an unwitting cabal, a sealed shop that nobody wants to see sealed, but that no one knows how to unseal either. |
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| Where Yellen falls short, however, is in her connections to any particular cabal. |
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| Are the Hugo awards in thrall to a politically correct cabal, or simply making an effort to remedy an ingrained injustice? |
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| The cabal that forced out Margaret Thatcher shared an enthusiasm for Europe and a fear of the poll tax. |
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| Unearth hundreds of items in beautiful and unique locations throughout the city to discover the dark secrets behind this mysterious cabal. |
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| This was in line with President Roosevelt's commitment to inclusive multilateralism instead of leaving things to a cabal of the powerful. |
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| It has now leant its name to a shadowy cabal known within the German meat-processing industry as the Atlantic group. |
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| I'm hoping for the latter, not banking on it though because he and his cabal will do anything to maintain control up to and including criminal activity. |
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| So there's a sinister cabal of egalitarians who have infiltrated the higher echelons of the Government, all wanting to give equality a go, but too scared to tell anyone. |
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| In Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who swept to power on an election ticket of uncompromising Islamism, the cabal of conservative mullahs have a president to their liking. |
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| There may be a cabal of disgruntled former ministers on Labour's back benches, but they have largely kept their mutterings of discontent to themselves. |
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| That despicable cabal of neo-fascists, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission has shown its usual disdain for the public interest over the last two months. |
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| In fact, if drug reformers gain enough political power to threaten the drug-war cabal, an alliance between the two to repress youths is inevitable. |
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| The chickenhawks, the cabal of right-wingers who never saw the far side of a military training ground, are the men now banging the drums for war in the White House. |
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| And when the jig is up and the fraud is exposed everybody claims to know nothing or blames some secret cabal of shadowy operatives in the bureaucracy. |
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| Some episkoposes have a one-man cabal. Some work together. Some never do explain. |
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| I defy the hon. member to say that somehow there was some closed cabal somewhere in her province, where we sat down with the provincial government, to allocate money only to Conservative ridings. |
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| A strong – for a long time successful but ultimately corrosive – cabal held sway in the England dressing room while Clarke remained the dominant force in the boardroom. |
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| When one a teacher vanishes without trace, the Academy crew end up on a road trip to Lumberjanes country where their sleuthing disturbs a sinister cabal of animal-skulled cenobites. |
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| Above all they are gripped by fear. This fear derives only in part from the premise of a cabal of bloodsucking undead who roam the streets in search of victims. |
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| A cabal can do it, selling their influence to the highest bidder. |
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| This could act as a counterweight to the dictatorial abuses of the past and it may lessen the current fears that those excluded from the power cabal in Baghdad might not be well served by government. |
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| But this is also the story of the Soviet Union's early days, when it seemed highly implausible that a cabal of Bolsheviks would rule the Russian empire for seventy-odd years. |
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| But who cares if FIFA is a corrupt organisation run by a cabal of dishonest, greedy, self-serving, old boys, parasitically cashing in on the game? |
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| Shadowy hacker cabal Anonymous briefly took down the website of the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix this morning, according to an uncorroborated online report. |
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| The cabal to destroy the building was foiled by federal agents. |
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