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We Christians are called to cooperate with everyone, to break the cycle of violence, to dismantle the machinations of hatred. – Pope Francis	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Markets are very uneasy about the growing likelihood of a policy error by the The Fed, it's madness really. Most investors would be well served to ignore the machinations of the pricing craziness and wait to see what actually happens with rates. – Jamie Cox	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The reason President Obama did that was President Obama wanted nothing to impact President Obama Iran nuclear deal because what President Obama wanted was Iran to be flushed with cash so that they could support Hezbollah and Hamas and their fight against Israel because President Obama is President Obama, that was all of the machinations of the President Obama administration and President Obama gave birth to ISIS and President Obama also allowed what weapons of mass destruction to use in the Middle East. And so President Trump is simply allowing us to defeat ISIS now which President Obama did not want to happen. – Anthony Tata	Found on CNN 3 years ago
At the end of 2018 it looked like the economy was moving forward in a continued solid manner, the risks were predominantly to the upside and it was not prominent on our radar screen or anybody's that the trade war's machinations would be taken to the extent that they have been...The news from abroad, by wide consensus, has been disappointing. – David Wilcox	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I think one of the by-products of the communications explosion is a sort of corruption fatigue. We've lost our ability to be shocked or enraged by the machinations of politicians. We've been battered with such frequency that we've become indifferent. We're punch drunk with scandal. – Larry Gelbart	added by Normando 4 years ago
I will soon be announcing legal steps to join with the Viacom Inc directors in our common cause to liberate my grandfather from Shari's clutches and protect my fellow trust beneficiaries and Sumner Redstone from her machinations. – Sumner Redstone	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Today's actions by the Governor reinforce the merits of our lawsuits against HTA and the government, we are disappointed that rather than doing everything it can to meet its financial obligations and negotiate in good faith with creditors for consensual solutions, the government, on the advice of bankruptcy advisors, is engaging in further machinations to advance its lobbying campaign ahead of Congressional action. – Nader Tavakoli	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We are disappointed that rather than doing everything it can to meet its financial obligations and negotiate in good faith with creditors for consensual solutions, the government, on the advice of bankruptcy advisors, is engaging in further machinations to advance its lobbying campaign ahead of Congressional action. – Nader Tavakoli	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Unfortunately, the machinations and volatility in oil is going to continue to be the tail that wags the dog. – Art Hogan	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We want to read the agreement, we are trying to work through all the machinations, not knowing exactly when it comes. – Bob Corker	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We are trying to work through all the machinations, not knowing exactly when it comes. – Bob Corker	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It is easier to talk about money -- and much easier to talk about sex -- than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly. – Smiley Blanton	added by anonymous 14 years ago

We Christians are called to cooperate with everyone, to break the cycle of violence, to dismantle the machinations of hatred.

– Pope Francis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Markets are very uneasy about the growing likelihood of a policy error by the The Fed, it's madness really. Most investors would be well served to ignore the machinations of the pricing craziness and wait to see what actually happens with rates.

– Jamie Cox

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The reason President Obama did that was President Obama wanted nothing to impact President Obama Iran nuclear deal because what President Obama wanted was Iran to be flushed with cash so that they could support Hezbollah and Hamas and their fight against Israel because President Obama is President Obama, that was all of the machinations of the President Obama administration and President Obama gave birth to ISIS and President Obama also allowed what weapons of mass destruction to use in the Middle East. And so President Trump is simply allowing us to defeat ISIS now which President Obama did not want to happen.

– Anthony Tata

Found on CNN
3 years ago

At the end of 2018 it looked like the economy was moving forward in a continued solid manner, the risks were predominantly to the upside and it was not prominent on our radar screen or anybody's that the trade war's machinations would be taken to the extent that they have been...The news from abroad, by wide consensus, has been disappointing.

– David Wilcox

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I think one of the by-products of the communications explosion is a sort of corruption fatigue. We've lost our ability to be shocked or enraged by the machinations of politicians. We've been battered with such frequency that we've become indifferent. We're punch drunk with scandal.

– Larry Gelbart

added by Normando
4 years ago

I will soon be announcing legal steps to join with the Viacom Inc directors in our common cause to liberate my grandfather from Shari's clutches and protect my fellow trust beneficiaries and Sumner Redstone from her machinations.

– Sumner Redstone

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Today's actions by the Governor reinforce the merits of our lawsuits against HTA and the government, we are disappointed that rather than doing everything it can to meet its financial obligations and negotiate in good faith with creditors for consensual solutions, the government, on the advice of bankruptcy advisors, is engaging in further machinations to advance its lobbying campaign ahead of Congressional action.

– Nader Tavakoli

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We are disappointed that rather than doing everything it can to meet its financial obligations and negotiate in good faith with creditors for consensual solutions, the government, on the advice of bankruptcy advisors, is engaging in further machinations to advance its lobbying campaign ahead of Congressional action.

– Nader Tavakoli

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Unfortunately, the machinations and volatility in oil is going to continue to be the tail that wags the dog.

– Art Hogan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We want to read the agreement, we are trying to work through all the machinations, not knowing exactly when it comes.

– Bob Corker

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are trying to work through all the machinations, not knowing exactly when it comes.

– Bob Corker

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It is easier to talk about money -- and much easier to talk about sex -- than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly.

– Smiley Blanton

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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