| He reveals details of boardroom machinations and backstairs skirmishes which only a fly on the wall could have witnessed. |
| But Fontaine was also slowed by the gridlock created by internal Liberal Party machinations. |
| Illness in African society is often attributed to the breaking of a taboo or machinations of malicious or sometimes displeased ancestral spirits. |
| The story is a simple one of the machinations of a rich society girl and her various romantic escapades on the eve of her wedding to a dullard. |
| These colonial machinations resulted in mass poverty, exploitation and oppression as the basic facts of life for the African. |
| The machinations of Booker juries are a smugly guarded secret, but one senses a good few compromises and second-bests here. |
