| You had to admire the sheer pluck of the woman, the marvellously unMachiavellian lack of machination or anything you might call strategy. |
| In yet another egregious political machination, however, Fujimori supporters in congress unconstitutionally thwarted this popular initiative on a dubious technicality. |
| It is pleasant to record that all this match-making and machination came to naught. |
| Due to some unforeseen plot machination, your character is washed up on the beach of a tropical desert island. |
| The protest of the church was of no avail to defeat the machination of demagogues. |
| Popular and familiar love songs underscore every bumbling error or ill-conceived machination of the lovers' various courtships. |
