A target some less machiavellian types might judge 'mission impossible'.
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Mr Tsipras's strategy is not as Machiavellian, say party insiders.
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That merely Machiavellian motivation does not render the prohibition legal.
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This tactic is low, Machiavellian and filled with outright lies.
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" The producer added, "He was as Machiavellian as they come.
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"I had no Machiavellian motive or sinister intention," he said.
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Behind this resolution is a Machiavellian conspiracy endorsed by Rep.
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But a Machiavellian could argue those votes were for change.
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They're kind, cruel, sadistic, needy, vulnerable, Machiavellian, ridiculous and absurd.
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""[This] tactic involves deception and is Machiavellian in its very nature.
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I almost laughed at the Machiavellian plans of the US Presidents.
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" Clinton, in contrast, comes off as "Machiavellian, crafty, power-oriented, untrustworthy.
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Macron will perhaps be remembered as the supreme Machiavellian of 2016.
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Uber's search for a new CEO is full of Machiavellian drama.
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You have to be presenting them as this evil Machiavellian threat.
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But in McConnell's Machiavellian mind, the end always justifies the means.
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"He's going to resort to some very Machiavellian tactics," Quaid says.
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Not in a Machiavellian, selfish way but in a survival way.
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"[It] involves deception and is Machiavellian in its very nature," he said.
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But is this all evidence of a Machiavellian plot to protect Clinton?
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So of course to many she seems Machiavellian, crafty, power-oriented, untrustworthy.
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Of course, he may well have a Machiavellian rationale in his head.
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That Dick Cheney was this Machiavellian puppet master of George W. Bush.
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Ignore the Machiavellian advice that it's better to be feared than loved.
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A more Machiavellian approach works, too, but it can be off-putting.
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"People want to characterize them as brilliant, Machiavellian, Hannibal Lecterian characters," said Meloy.
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This was supposed to be this Machiavellian move, and it's completely fucked up.
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A Machiavellian tactic designed to inspire devotion in Jaime and credulity in Tyrion?
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And none appear willing or able to match the young prince's Machiavellian tactics.
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Surrounding them are these Machiavellian corporate giants, the Vanderbilts and Carnegies of our day!
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It's realist, transactional, and Machiavellian — and it demands a serious, thoughtful, and nondefensive response.
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"This could be a straight-up Machiavellian ploy for a presidential pardon," Levin said.
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It's no secret Bannon is a mischief-maker and fancies himself a Machiavellian operative.
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More broadly this alarming rise in Machiavellian ambiguity risks being a disaster for democracies.
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In the world of House of Cards, politics is nasty, Machiavellian, and corrupt, sure.
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"We have to be politically Machiavellian, often, to win the day," Hogen once said.
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It's a brilliant, Machiavellian move, leaving her – for the moment at least – surprisingly unassailable.
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But, Trump's whining is not some clever Machiavellian tactic, precisely tuned for these times.
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Given the Machiavellian reputation of the conglomerate, that is not a completely crazy idea.
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Game of Thrones returns Sunday with all your giant dragon and Machiavellian plot needs.
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Walmart attributes our national love for bananas to a less, shall we say, Machiavellian source.
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Mr Hernández, whose Machiavellian talents would impress even the Florentine philosopher, did nothing so clumsy.
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"And it wasn't because of calculations or because of some Machiavellian foresight," Ms. Cahill said.
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Deal or no deal, few Hondurans believe that their Machiavellian president will leave office soon.
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But he's there to fact check just how Machiavellian these kinds of affairs can be.
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It was a Machiavellian world set on the stage of a more familiar Wall Street.
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His government also says Machiavellian businessmen are hoarding goods and bloating prices to sabotage socialism.
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Discrepancy aside, hurriedly aging your wine is clearly not proof of a Machiavellian cover-up.
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To expect a consensus on this matter is naive at best, and Machiavellian at worst.
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This is what brought millions of people into the streets in protest, not Machiavellian manipulation.
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All of the silliness aside, Bellator 187 confirmed the Machiavellian genius of promoter, Scott Coker.
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In China, the beautiful game appears primarily to be a Machiavellian tool of self-furtherment.
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This makes it sound as if the United States is getting played by Machiavellian Europeans.
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And, of course, it stands to be crushed by this encroaching tentacle of Hanks' Machiavellian empire.
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Because Israel is a savvy realpolitik actor, and becomes Machiavellian when facing existential threats like Iran.
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But what about Nixon's Machiavellian recasting of McGovern as the candidate of "acid, amnesty, and abortion"?
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I kind of think what Harbaugh is trying to do is far more Machiavellian than that.
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Also take her aside early on and explain the employment realities that require your Machiavellian intrusion.
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At times she has been portrayed by her co-stars as outwardly warm but secretly Machiavellian.
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Far from being any kind of Machiavellian mastermind, the Gotti here is driven by mere resentment.
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Is there some masked Machiavellian mastermind lurking beyond the shadows of New York's subways and pizza parlors?
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Irons's Scar possessed a blush of camp and sinuous smoothness to go along with his Machiavellian ways.
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Hayek adds that she said "no" every time, which she says produced a "Machiavellian rage" in Weinstein.
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The pact should serve as a reminder to any country seeking to negotiate with the Machiavellian Kremlin.
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That either she is the most tone-deaf image maker in the administration or its most Machiavellian.
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Maybe Trump isn't a chess master, these liberals might suggest, but he's at least a studied Machiavellian.
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In their pursuit of survival, men and women employ Machiavellian game theory and adopt a bleak consequentialism.
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That — not sinister Machiavellian plans — is the real lesson of the political success of public choice economics.
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" Tillerson called Netanyahu "an extraordinarily skilled" diplomat and politician, but also described him as "a bit Machiavellian.
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This is a great example of the Machiavellian conundrum referenced in the episode title: What really drives Hector?
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It will take some Machiavellian maneuvers, but I wouldn't be surprised if Trump is soon off the stage.
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Eleanor Shaw, a machiavellian politician with a mean streak who pushes her son (Liev Schreiber) to become president.
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Some even cautioned that he was orchestrating a Machiavellian plot to become another leftist dictator in Latin America.
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Constitutional scholars told Insider that McConnell&aposs maneuver was "cynically Machiavellian" and a "hyperpartisan" manipulation of Senate norms.
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It is too facile to regard the man as a Machiavellian monster of self-interest, she has argued.
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In the Texas case, the Supreme Court prevented the Machiavellian manipulation of healthcare regulations by pro-life politicians.
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The show, by contrast, imagined a world of Machiavellian scheming set against the darkening backdrop of climate change.
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Bobby's repeated use of other individuals as social tools is a complex behavior, and potentially indicative of Machiavellian intelligence.
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No, no, no, no, no …" And then the key detail: "With every refusal," Hayek writes, "came Harvey's Machiavellian rage.
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These lies are the lubrication that keeps social interaction from becoming painful, the Machiavellian web that binds us together.
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Abroad Mrs Merkel is often described by critics and admirers as a sphinx, a master chess-player, a Machiavellian.
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The ungenerous interpretation would be that only victory can appease a soul that is Machiavellian all the way down.
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I didn't sit in a chair with some Machiavellian vision of where I wanted to be as an actor.
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Using the more capable Lightning connector to just inflict that same old abomination on people is almost Machiavellian evil.
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On the whole, Mr Hnath's play is a Machiavellian meditation on the sacrifices politicians will make to reach office.
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Dorsey's Machiavellian move didn't mention Facebook or Zuckerberg by name, but it was clear who he was calling out.
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But to her (and everyone's) surprise, all of Senator James's past Machiavellian congressional maneuvers come back to haunt him.
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Tillerson said Netanyahu was "a bit Machiavellian" and cultivated relationships with world leaders he anticipated would be useful later.
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"It's not so much that the industry is there in some Machiavellian way," psychiatrist David Healy told Mother Jones.
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What starts as "just one shipment" ends in a Machiavellian plot that somehow incorporates both water aerobics and serial blackmail.
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The autocratic former prime minister may have charm but he lacks the Machiavellian finesse needed to handle such a situation.
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America's Republicans claim the mantle of fiscal responsibility but have been deeply Machiavellian in their use of the federal budget.
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Two of them, Clinton and Cruz, are fairly traditional political liars, with Cruz taking the lead as the truly Machiavellian.
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But from the perspective of Michigan's unemployment insurance agency, it might be seen as a success, if a Machiavellian one.
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That is, he thinks he's being Machiavellian and strategic, but really it's the Holy Spirit constraining him from teaching error.
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Shiv is ballsy and Machiavellian, Connor is pedantic and distant, Roman is slippery and numb, Kendall is overeager and underprepared.
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Our coalitional psychology is more like a Machiavellian playbook of strategies than a simple reflex of hostility toward an outgroup.
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This Machiavellian operator's schemes have shaped this story from the beginning (see: the deaths of Jon Arryn and Joffrey Baratheon).
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But it takes someone special, someone rare, someone spectacularly Machiavellian and malevolent, to screw up all three branches of government.
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In Cinthio's novella, the source from which he took the outlines of the story, multiple motives animated this Machiavellian schemer.
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" Chatterjee later said that there are "no Machiavellian games here" and "both of them will be sworn in short order.
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The timeline of how the lie of Clinton's constitutional crisis was born and grew is full of Machiavellian-level misdirections.
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Since inheriting power after his father's death in 2011, he has proved as Machiavellian as his forebears of the totalitarian dynasty.
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Ethics and integrity seem to get lost somewhere in the shuffle, and therefore the word Machiavellian has become a pejorative term.
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So is the Machiavellian mastermind, who liberals have called a mustachioed mad man, about to become a hero of the resistance?
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Mr Bannon justified his divisive methods in Machiavellian terms—arguing that outraged liberals would lurch ever further to the unelectable left.
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In the ensuing Machiavellian match, it quickly becomes clear that the murderous Lavrenti Beria (Simon Russell Beale) represents the greatest threat.
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With the levers of state power again solely in his hands, Hun Sen began to master electoral democracy with Machiavellian skill.
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Both Trump and Tillerson need to know that Putin is Machiavellian and gets rid of ppl who expose him as such.
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Can't we just go back to the good ol' days when we left food establishments out of our grand, Machiavellian schemes?
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From that interview, you can tell he has convinced himself this is good for him and it's very Machiavellian in that regard.
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I'm almost surprised by how wholeheartedly Wendy has stooped to Axe's Machiavellian level — but why should I expected elevated morals from Wendy?
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It's worth watching just for the Machiavellian Malcolm Tucker, played by Peter Capaldi, but every episode in its short run is wonderful.
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The Associated Press reported Saturday that the lawyers referred to Comey as "Machiavellian" and dishonest in the letter, which the AP obtained.
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The Italians are foils — old-world artisans and Machiavellian schemers whose ethos is embodied by the company patriarch, Enzo Ferrari (Remo Girone).
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Each apparently Machiavellian move -- government reshuffles, economic and social promises and now arrests -- has been taken one deliberate step at a time.
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He saw no use for bombastic, Machiavellian advisers like Anthony Scaramucci and Steve Bannon, both of whom he pushed out within weeks.
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It allegorically pits the enlightened orchestra leader against a Machiavellian "Overseer;" the two play cards in an obscure battle for black humanity.
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Is it the endless Machiavellian play of the ultimate con man, or does Heidl believe what he says when he says it?
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Machiavellian deception is often part of a strategy, for example, in bargaining or even in bringing a group to accept new goals.
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Given this Machiavellian history, it is unsurprising that the rule is currently being challenged in court for violating the Administrative Procedure Act.
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" Thank you, Mitch "It takes someone special, someone rare, someone spectacularly Machiavellian and malevolent, to screw up all three branches of government.
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The only question is whether the Republican Congressional leadership will be Machiavellian enough to realize this and feed this one-sided destructive frenzy.
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Or, a more Machiavellian example could involve human-operated vehicles approaching a stopped autonomous vehicle from 90 degrees at a four-way stop.
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And in this Machiavellian world, these themes are mixed together in a toxic stew of HR risk avoidance, fearful employees and inexperienced managers.
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He also says he believes her claims that she sought to distance her father from his powerful Machiavellian national security adviser Vladimiro Montesinos.
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That booze doesn't impair a woman's ability to spot a Machiavellian jerk or narcissistic asshole, even after researchers fed them vodka and lemonade.
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After all, for Russian President Vladimir Putin, being considered a Machiavellian grandmaster of geopolitical skullduggery arguably gives him more power than he deserves.
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As creatures of the night, they can be explorations of our most repressed urges or of our Machiavellian desire to manipulate and control.
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Still, he moves through the show effortlessly with a smarmy charm (schmarm?), even though his motivations are more inscrutable than they are Machiavellian.
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This fish-eat-fish explanation is a temptingly Machiavellian one, he added, but exactly how the "woman in red" effect occurs remains unknown.
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The show stars Shiri Appleby as the young and troubled reality TV producer alongside her machiavellian boss, Constance Zimmer, orchestrating the drama on Everlasting.
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But in Schumer, Democrats also possess a megaphone, and a contrast to the soft-spoken Machiavellian Reid, who was more of an inside player.
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A happy bonus is how this survey paints an image of a deliciously Machiavellian art world in Rome — all scheming competition and heated rivalry.
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Day to day, the government is run by his Machiavellian attorney-general, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, de facto prime minister to the presidential Mr Bainimarama.
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Hard-core Brexiteers speculate that Theresa May is preparing to betray the 17.4m people who voted Leave, at the behest of a Machiavellian establishment.
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In the end, the Ailes we'd mythologized as a Machiavellian puppet master was revealed to be nothing more than a common frat house bully.
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What was more, as Ms. Curtin told it, her career was hindered by a set of backstage machinations as Machiavellian as anything in opera.
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As the show did in the first episodes of Seasons 2 and 3, it delivers some shock value along with its Machiavellian political strategy.
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It would be foolish not to anticipate that data will be used in every political campaign and marketing activity imaginable in new, Machiavellian ways.
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President Trump is Machiavellian, in my opinion, which means that he will use obfuscation, hypocrisy, deception and ruthlessness to reach the ends he seeks.
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Rubio insisted that Barack Obama was a Machiavellian mastermind who is competently carrying out a well-thought-through plan for transforming America into Sweden.
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So, depending on the perspective, Catherine toggles from being a Machiavellian maneuverer to woman with a white-knuckled grip on her supposedly God-given destiny.
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If somebody has a long history of hurting you, and they have a Machiavellian personality, the only thing they understand is a display of force.
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As a Machiavellian record-label corporate climber, Nicholas Hoult oozes cool charisma, while a very good (and almost unrecognizable) James Corden plays his dissipated colleague.
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Is he a machiavellian savant who knows that his only path to reelection in 2628 is to help elect a Democratic congressional majority in 28500?
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It's a switcheroo engineered by Gideon Logistics, a Machiavellian defense contractor that originally hired Danny to work at a chow hall in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan.
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He uses his clown's mask to great effect to conceal his Machiavellian side, saying toxic things one moment and telling a good joke the next.
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So it's only fitting that the equally Machiavellian first lady has her own: Leann Harvey, a take-no-prisoners campaign strategist played by Neve Campbell.
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It could have been a misguided move by Glory, or it could have been the Machiavellian Coker genius, but either way Bellator Dynamite was dismal.
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Yes, many of the machinations were Machiavellian, but there was a certain brilliance to some of the moves, as in a chess game masterfully played.
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Giving too much credit to any one person builds up Mr. Miller, undeservedly, as a Machiavellian genius and lets many other folks off the hook.
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The new HBO drama follows a powerful but dysfunctional dynasty and gives it a twist: Amid all the Machiavellian machinations is a reservoir of satire.
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The Clintons pitching a Machiavellian second "co-presidency" and the attendant generation with them refusing to let go of a past irrelevant to our present.
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But, widely seen as a Machiavellian and shrewd operator, he has mostly escaped punishment beyond being suspended from the bloc's biggest centre-right parliamentary group.
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In the future, Machiavellian crime lords won't be counterfeiting cold, hard cash or priceless artwork, but instead a corner store's bounty in knockoff energy drinks.
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In Netflix's political drama House of Cards, scenes featuring Machiavellian babe Claire Underwood (Robin Wright) jogging became so iconic, they inspired Spotify playlists and workout outfits.
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What a blast to watch Axe (Damian Lewis), Chuck (Paul Giamatti), and Taylor (Asia Kate Dillon) attempt to juggle their relationships with their Machiavellian day-jobs.
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In its more Machiavellian moments, the company makes clear that it sees the comics more as content incubators for movies and video games than valuable products.
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"Always read the fine print," Parnell says, as he sits on a rowing machine, like the one used by the Machiavellian president in the Netflix series.
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Moreover, this kind of sloppy plotting played out in national media reinforces the perception that both parties are the same — craven, power-mad and amateurishly Machiavellian.
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If you believe Swift is a little Machiavellian but was ultimately outflanked by West, Kardashian, and momager nonpareil Kris Jenner, this is the story for you.
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"I don't think he hated anything more than the word 'no,'' wrote Hayek, who said her constant rebuffing would always result in Weinstein exhibiting "Machiavellian rage.
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So it is among the church's conservative cardinals: To talk with anti-Francis churchmen is to encounter not Machiavellian plots but despair and bafflement and impotence.
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To many voters though, he is a Machiavellian surrounded by a close club of advisers and confident in his own ability to reshape France and Europe.
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Kelly saw no use for those he saw as bombastic, machiavellian troublemakers — like Anthony Scaramucci and Steve Bannon, both of whom he pushed out within weeks.
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Interestingly, it doesn't appear that Maguire Meats is alone in their Machiavellian attempt to subvert the very fabric of society vis-à-vis booze-drenched sausage.
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This may sound Machiavellian, but Niccolò Machiavelli also argued that men need to be either well treated or crushed: Lighter injuries generate revenge, and eventually backlash.
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Viewed through a Machiavellian prism, American embarrassment over the leak provides Mr. Netanyahu with a little extra leverage in his dealings with Mr. Trump next week.
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Martha Stewart either has the most sincere or the most Machiavellian social media presence of any celebrity, and we are lucky to live in her world.
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He said it was a mistake to suppose that Mr. Putin had from the start conducted "a Machiavellian conspiracy" aimed at bringing Mr. Trump to power.
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It's a show in which a teenage girl became a Machiavellian super genius because she lived in an adrenalized state of hyperreality that made her omniscient.
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Lift is the Machiavellian mastermind behind one of the biggest corporations, Worry-Free, whose main goal is to make money at the expense of literally everyone else.
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And, you really need to remember them amidst Cards' last hurrah, which has too much ground to cover to hold your hand and explain every Machiavellian turn.
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But in the end I don&apost believe that Trump is willing to lose the House in a Machiavellian scheme to propel himself to a second term.
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Machiavellian as Trump and his cadre can be, they may conclude that state court is their next move (if they can garner reason to go that route).
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One of their secrets, perhaps, is that Rachid Ghannouchi, a founder of Ennahda and its "intellectual leader," is less a Machiavellian politician and more a principled scholar.
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Yet it is still hard for the reader to get truly inside the mind of this complex Kennedy, somehow both a "Machiavellian contriver and man of conscience".
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It's a startling moment, as is her cunning manipulation of her nurse (played by the excellent Claude Mathieu), usually recognized as one of Racine's great Machiavellian confidantes.
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Whereas blood relations tend to share a certain monochromatic tint, professional ties can be kaleidoscopic in their randomness, not to mention intensely Machiavellian and therefore inherently dramatic.
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Wrought with Machiavellian tension, Ozark is set to finally bring us the antiheroine TV deserves — and based on the trailer, that won't end too well for Marty.
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"There's a little bit of mystery about him," Mr. Savary said — perhaps an echo of the Machiavellian precept that leaders are not bound to reveal too much.
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Mr Hernández's Machiavellian masterpiece was to position himself to run for re-election, which was disallowed by the constitution until 2015, and then to win in 2017.
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Often called Machiavellian, Littlefinger was a slimy man, but it was his unwavering devotion to deception and prestige that made him so incredible — and dare I say vital?
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Dating apps require a more Machiavellian approach; the time spent isn't just for pleasure in that moment but rather for pleasure later, or, for some, longer-term results.
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In a startling display of hypocrisy, the senator who had gone all-in for a man he once despised now accused Democrats of acting in a Machiavellian manner.
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Spacey appeared in character during the Golden Globes in January, and now the Machiavellian monster has his portrait hung alongside actual presidents', in the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.
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In 1975, however, J.G.A. Pocock published a tome called The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition, bringing the civic republican tradition to the fore.
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They very much like to make comparisons between themselves and other chickens and sometimes use these comparisons in ways that can be thought of as "Machiavellian" or strategic.
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Op-Ed Contributor PRAGUE — Welcome to 21st-century conflict, more Machiavellian than military, where hacks, leaks and fake news are taking the place of planes, bombs and missiles.
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But that's unlikely to stop him inserting himself into the Democratic race for president -- a tactic that will in itself test the candidates' capacity to tackle a Machiavellian rival.
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The Dutch historian argues that improvising its way through a decade of emergencies has changed the EU. He describes these crises, and Brexit in particular, as a "Machiavellian moment".
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I truly believed her intelligence and Machiavellian savvy would lead her to some kind of triumph, even if it just meant escaping King's Landing with her family relatively unscathed.
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"In spite of his charisma, in spite of his Machiavellian skills in winning over enemies, he has these big problems that I think no one can solve," Lam said.
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SHONDA RHIMES ('SCANDAL'): We had the Hollis Doyle character [a Machiavellian oil tycoon turned presidential candidate], who we made up as the craziest person to ever run for president.
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It has always been the case that front-line politics are inhabited by creatures different from the rest of us, people who are overtly Machiavellian more often than not.
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Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright are back as Frank and Claire Underwood, the Machiavellian schemers and menacing first couple in this pulpy series, which returns for its fifth season.
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Frank Bowman, a constitutional-law professor at the University of Missouri School of Law, called McConnell&aposs move "cynically Machiavellian" and a partisan manipulation of Senate norms and rules.
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It rings many notes expected in such tales: larger-than-life rogues, heroes and villains, bickering and meddling gods, prophecies and Machiavellian maneuvers that would shame anyone in Washington.
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The theory proposed that Obamacare was never meant to help people who get health insurance; it was actually some machiavellian scheme hatched by the left to commit widespread voter fraud.
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Jones also described Jackson as "Machiavellian," purporting that the King of Pop — who he worked with many times throughout his career and most notably on the album, Thriller — "stole" songs.
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Yet another idea, the Machiavellian-intelligence hypothesis, is that big brains enable people to manipulate others to their own advantage—a trick that the invention of language would also assist.
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His scaremongering over refugees is transparently Machiavellian, but his critiques on the former secretary of State wanting open borders and being not adequately concerned with domestic security still hit hard.
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The recent revival of the republican tradition in America began in 1975, when scholar J.G.A. Pocock published his tome The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition.
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Unless there is some Machiavellian plan to cede vast areas of northern England to Scotland, it would be more appropriate to place post-Brexit customs controls along the River Tweed.
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Pakistan in the late 1990s was a mess: Its Machiavellian spy services were working with the United States and, at the same time, supporting the Taliban and Osama bin Laden.
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They alight on the materialistic and the machiavellian, the flippant brand loyalties and the all-consuming narcissism of beauty guru culture, all while remaining a part of this community themselves.
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Men tend to gravitate toward an aggressive, "top-down Machiavellian" understanding of power, but the more collaborative, evenhanded style of leadership associated with women has been gaining momentum, he said.
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The possibility that Elizabeth could have been a shrewd and ruthless political player in her own right — a Machiavellian prince rather than a cursed fairy tale princess — is ruled out.
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The Dick-and-Lynne marital saga is shadowed by a buddy comedy, in which Dick and Don make their merry Machiavellian way through the legislative and executive branches of government.
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Under Putin's Machiavellian direction, Russia has managed to exploit U.S. ambivalence in Syria and carve out what is likely to be a revitalized Russian sphere of influence in the Levant.
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But it is also just the kind of thinking that his opponents see as evidence that he is too Machiavellian and idiosyncratic for the job of President Trump's chief strategist.
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McConnell&aposs &aposcynically Machiavellian&apos maneuverDemocrats sharply condemned McConnell&aposs resolution, calling it a rushed cover-up and a "significant" break from the precedent of Clinton&aposs 1999 impeachment trial.
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"I am proud of having been very Machiavellian," Mr. Renzi said, adding that Mr. Salvini clearly did not foresee his play and that everyone prematurely counted him out as dead.
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Every character behaved much as his or her Mozartian precedent behaves — except for a darkly Machiavellian protagonist, the Major, conjured up by Mr. Pountney as the driving force behind the plot.
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Chicago mobster Albert Tocco started calling Charles Hager "Little Joe College" because he was a thinker, a different animal from most guys working for The Outfit, who were far from Machiavellian.
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This is why Jon refused to consider stripping certain Northern nobility of their castles, while Sansa offered an appealing Machiavellian alternative as a way to encourage loyalty and wipe out insurrection.
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Margaery is playing the High Sparrow like a fiddle (WE ALL KNOW SHE'S FAKING) and slipping Granny Olenna secret solidarity roses like the one true Machiavellian queen of Westeros we deserve.
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"Machiavellian" is another shorthand that inverts its namesake, even if the Renaissance statesman and writer Niccolò Machiavelli still gets cast in the popular imagination as a cynical proponent of ruthless power politics.
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Christine Forster, Mr Abbott's gay sister and a Liberal member of Sydney's city council, accuses her brother of playing "Machiavellian games" with an issue that has been an "awful roller-coaster ride".
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Hospital Productions, the label headed by Dominick Fernow (Prurient, Vatican Shadow), have announced a very limited quadruple cassette box set: Various Auras: A Bird's-Eye View Into A Machiavellian World of Secrecy.
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I also realize that many people looking at this strategy will find it all too Machiavellian and distasteful in a way that would make even "House of Cards" President Frank Underwood blush.
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The legal procedures may be foreign to American viewers, but the Machiavellian machinations and moral ambiguity — which Peter Moffat, the drama's creator, culled from his own experiences at the bar — are universal.
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Season 3's cliffhangers were so steep we're still feeling vertigo, with Claire Underwood (Robin Wright) dramatically leaving the White House, and perhaps her marriage to Spacey's frighteningly-executed modern Machiavellian, Frank.
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Unlike their bloody-minded American cousins, British authors of true crime seem more inspired by dirty old men with nasty little secrets, although Machiavellian young men are also good for a book.
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By doing away with the Machiavellian approach to exercise, Ring Fit Adventure helped me see physical activity as a time to connect with my body rather than beat it down into submission.
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His slipperiness has been given a sinister twist by his chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, a Machiavellian ideologue who propagated the lie that Brexit would generate £350m ($460m) a week for the NHS.
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Some theater news: Bryan Cranston, above, will star at the National Theater in London in a stage adaptation of the film "Network," about TV executives and their Machiavellian maneuvers for higher ratings.
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One could also argue that Trump is more Machiavellian than Foucauldian and that he doesn't actually believe what he says: He propagates misinformation strategically, to excite his base and smear his opponents.
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And if you don't think Trump could display a softer centrist-friendly side on TV and attack vigorously and shockingly on Twitter at the same time, you're still underestimating his Machiavellian media skills.
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It gave us the Machiavellian presence of captain Gabriel Lorca (Jason Isaacs), who decided that Burnham's strategic mutiny demonstrated the kind of quality he needed for his ship's unconventional top-secret science mission.
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And given that Sharp Objects has leaned very hard into signaling that the murderer is a woman, it's probably high time we look at the evidence for and against our favorite burgeoning Machiavellian.
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Well, thievery was on the docket again for Nottingham Forest, as midfielder Ben Osborn came up with a straight-up Machiavellian way to send the ball past the wall during a free kick.
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Poor Brenda (Rosa Salazar) persists in appearing to pine for Thomas, but he still carries the torch for the traitorous Teresa (Kaya Scodelario), now an assistant to the WCKD'S chief Machiavellian (Patricia Clarkson).
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And throughout the season, she plays a Machiavellian scheme and pits two girls — one not as talented but fearless, the other more talented but a nervous wreck — against each other for a spot.
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The show's producers got involved and issued the man, Dan Spilo, a formal warning, but, in a Machiavellian twist, the two accusers admitted to using the situation to oust the other, Kellee Kim.
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Hilary Mantel's highly acclaimed novels about the rise of Thomas Cromwell under the reign of King Henry VIII aren't fantasy, but they are engrossing historical novels filled with medieval politics and Machiavellian maneuvers.
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A Machiavellian Trump — one who was merely acting the fool, manipulating the public and media in service of some diabolical long-term agenda — is less frightening than a purely narcissistic and impulsive one.
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A team of researchers from the University of St. Andrews, the University of Leipzig, and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, have uncovered the faint glimmerings of Machiavellian intelligence in the brains of chimpanzees.
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Temer is no stranger to controversy, having leapt from the vice presidency to the presidency through a seemingly Machiavellian power grab reliant on former speaker of the house Eduardo Cunha's impeachment campaign against Dilma.
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The Machiavellian diner also says it resulted in a "great evening with my love"—sure, if your definition of an amorous night out is a game of bait and switch over your main course.
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The current Guantanamo Bay detainee lays out a scathing rebuke of U.S. foreign policy and democracy, the Herald reports, ridiculing American and "Western" politicians as "Machiavellian" liars, beholden to special interests and campaign financiers.
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From there, it diversified into energy (Mombil) and genetic engineering (Momsanto), among other sectors, all of it overseen by Mom, a folksy figurehead in ads who was actually a Machiavellian tyrant with bottomless ambition.
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The only thing critics can't charge is that she covered up after the fact, and that's because the private server was a Machiavellian mechanism that prevented her from leaving tracks in the first place.
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But not really very brightly, as he was only able to express his opposition to the White House-backed change in the form of convoluted pretzel logic posited as a Machiavellian 4-dimensional chess move.
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Watching them play off one another is exhilarating, and never more so than a parody scene that shows Lynne and Dick in bed, reciting Shakespearean monologues in a subversive wink to their Machiavellian political planning.
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He was perhaps too young and idealistic to appreciate the nascent monster in the tactics laid out by the G.O.P. political strategist Lee Atwater, or the Machiavellian goals cloaked in Newt Gingrich's Contract for America.
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In executives' offices, any rap against a movie or an actor—cost overruns for "The Revenant," sexual-harassment allegations against Casey Affleck—is attributed to a Machiavellian rival working the grapevine or manipulating a journalist.
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Perhaps, the reason why this party is not doing much is because it hasn't figured out what to do with a titular leader whose Machiavellian concerns focus on self and a small circle of friends.
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It was more entertaining to imagine that the humiliation of a scorned wife could turn into a Machiavellian move for power and personal gain—certainly more entertaining than picturing a grotesquely staged White House stroll.
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In a blistering 13-page letter hand-delivered to Mueller on June 27, Kasowitz elaborated his concerns about Comey, whom he called "Machiavellian," after the former FBI director testified before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
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It may be ugly, even Machiavellian, but it is Moscow and Washington who supply the key weapons to all sides in these conflicts, and if they cut a deal, their proxies will be obliged to follow.
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Private equity firm Comvest Partners allegedly directed a "Machiavellian scheme" to strip real estate assets from the Haggen supermarket chain amid a disastrous expansion that ended in bankruptcy, according to a lawsuit by Haggen's unsecured creditors.
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The speaker of the lower house of Brazil's congress — a notoriously machiavellian politician who last year opened the way for the possible impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff — is now facing charges of corruption and money laundering.
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Nobody can stop talking about Just How Fucking Smart our Teddy is, and to make it this far in politics while being so actively repugnant means that, seriously, the guy has to be a Machiavellian genius.
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So crazy, in fact, that one man recently ended up going to jail for a Machiavellian scheme to embezzle tens of thousands of euros from the supermarket he managed—all in the name of his precious kitty.
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From the time he was first arrested, to when he was strapped to the electric chair, to present day when he is being romanticized into some machiavellian Romeo, Ted Bundy was given the benefit of the doubt.
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Rather than being the latest Machiavellian wheeze by LME warehouse operators to replace the discredited load-out queue operating model, this shadow storage system is simply an efficient market reaction to a distorted LME warehouse pricing landscape.
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There were some complex wrinkles to the character, particularly the mysterious sexual dynamic of his Machiavellian marriage to Robin Wright's Claire, but the real selling point of House of Cards was watching Spacey inhabit Underwood's bottomless bravado.
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But, much like a previous attempt to suspend police from the war on drugs, which soon collapsed, Heydarian says that he doesn't think "it's a permanent change but a Machiavellian calculation" to boost Duterte's approval ratings. Misdirection?
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Over more than six months of testimony, Vatican watchers hoping that the courtroom revelations would blow the lid off Dan Brown-like intrigue and Machiavellian machinations inside the guarded halls of the Holy See have been disappointed.
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After starting "Downton Abbey" as a scheming, Machiavellian mastermind, season six saw Thomas undergo a change of heart, playing with the children of Downton and even attempt to teach an illiterate footman how to read and write.
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Jay Martin, the executive director of the Community Housing Improvement Program, a trade association representing about 4,000 building owners, said the new focus on average New Yorkers was not some "Machiavellian idea to undermine" the rent laws.
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Characters like Craig Watts, a Perdue-contracted chicken farmer from North Carolina, illuminate the struggle under the "Machiavellian" tournament contract system of industrial poultry production that sets its participant farmers up for crushing debt accumulation and failure.
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The film is good in exposing the Machiavellian motives behind this rushed decision, as well as the gut-wrenching suffering that followed (the house, which "makes Buckingham Palace look like a bungalow", becomes a camp for the displaced).
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Mr Mugabe has long kept his party in line by playing off one faction against another with Machiavellian skill and, in the words of a former cabinet minister, "charming you while preparing to stab you in the back".
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The park's future has frequently been uncertain, with backstage infighting to rival anything in Westworld: The Wall Street Journal referred to its owners' backstabbing power grabs as "Machiavellian" in a breathless 1997 article on the park's fluctuating fortunes.
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Alternatively, a pardon could have been more Machiavellian: a bargaining chip that Mr Kuczynski might have traded for fujimorista support for the institutional reforms—of the judiciary, the civil service and the political system—that Peru badly needs.
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She painted herself into a corner: She can't be seen as defending NAFTA, which was one of her husband's signature accomplishments, because of its deep unpopularity, but speaking out against it would bolster the sense that she's Machiavellian.
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The accursed control room, where Rachel Goldberg (Shiri Appleby) and Quinn King (Constance Zimmer) concocted their most Machiavellian reality TV schemes, blazes, the flames forever wrecking the massive television screens the duo used to spy on their subjects.
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The Atlantic's report, which cites interviews with Trump campaign aides and former employees, White House officials, and friends of the family, portrays a Machiavellian family dynamic, with the Trump children constantly vying for their father's attention and approval.
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Other than a Machiavellian plot to subvert the very fabric of organized society, what in the hell could have possibly driven Ryan Hart to create the ungodly union of tableware and weed paraphernalia that is the Breakfast Bowl?
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" In the latest, the just-published "Joe Country", Diana Taverner—the Machiavellian chief of Mr Herron's fictionalised version of MI5, Britain's domestic security service—considers: "If you want your enemy to fail, give him something important to do.
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He did this only to have his shot at the leadership ruined by his former ally Michael Gove, a sort of strange puppet man who surprisingly seems to be the most Machiavellian politician in the UK right now.
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That same control of the company Maurizio liquidated to stay wealthy was gained in a Machiavellian move in which he ousted his three older cousins and his uncle Aldo from the Gucci board after secretly buying out their stock.
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Indiana Pacers So, this would be amazing and stunningly Machiavellian: George forces his way out of Indiana, lets them replenish their roster with a flowering All-Star guard and gifted young big, and then re-signs the following year.
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It is instead an archetypical second-half-of-the-20th-century tale of a young man of modest means rising to lofty status in business and in government by dint of intelligence, diligence, quirky charm and a Machiavellian streak.
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The show, which starred Nigel Hawthorne as the civil servant Sir Humphrey Appleby, mined comic gold out of his masterful handling of his boss, portraying him as wily, quick-witted and cheerfully Machiavellian as he blocked ill-conceived projects.
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The coach, a get-inside-your-head Machiavellian named Herb Brooks, told me he was creating an "American style" of hockey, which he believed could end the dynasty of the Soviet Union, which had won the last four Olympics.
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But if it's somebody who is one of those Machiavellian assholes who is treating you like shit because they believe that's how to get ahead, in that case you've got to get the hell out of there if you can.
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A member of a lower panel, the Special Electoral Tribunal, involved in the decision-making over candidates, has been linked to Vladimiro Montesinos, Alberto Fujimori's Machiavellian national security adviser, who is also serving a lengthy jail term on corruption charges.
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MARKET (IN)EFFICIENCY Rather than being the latest Machiavellian wheeze by LME warehouse operators to replace the discredited load-out queue operating model, this shadow storage system is simply an efficient market reaction to a distorted LME warehouse pricing landscape.
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Having the American political elite regard them as this land of sophisticated masterminds who can basically determine elections, elevate presidents, and in a Machiavellian way decide which way the world's going to spin, that actually does play towards the Russians.
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Written by John Niven, a former artists-and-repertoire man, adapting his own novel, the movie follows the Machiavellian destiny of Steven Stelfox (Nicholas Hoult of "Mad Max: Fury Road"), a ruthless corporate climber at the London record label Unigram.
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President Trump's head lawyer, Marc Kasowitz, wrote a memo to the special counsel last June which referred to former FBI Director James Comey as "Machiavellian," and "unbounded by law and regulation," according to the Associated Press which obtained the letter.
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So as challenges mount, it is still unclear whether they could irreversibly damage his campaign or whether his unorthodox Machiavellian talent for creating alternative political realities while destroying his opponents will be as potent in 2020 as it was in 2016.
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Freeman plays Watson with charming befuddlement — something the audience can really cling to when Sherlock really digs into his "mind palace" — while Andrew Scott truly embraces the organised chaos of a machiavellian criminal mind as Sherlock's unhinged nemesis Jim Moriarty.
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The family of billionaires flashes the occasional glimmer of likability, but it's far more the exception than the rule amidst Machiavellian overtones and bumbling decision making, all of which might otherwise be completely insufferable were it not so consistently funny.
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Instead, Lochery, a professor of Middle Eastern studies at University College London, aims much lower, taking us on a slog through what he identifies as nine decisive moments in Netanyahu's career and then rehashing, largely using newspaper clips, the Machiavellian minutiae.
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Forget the twisted plot, wherein the idealist Jean's brother, Martial (Victor Francen), a great scientist and Martial's financier, Werster (Georges Colin) attempt to save the world from the Machiavellian forces of the (unstated but obviously Jewish) wealthy munitions supplier, Schomburg.
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Thursday has been widely described as some variation on a "Tory Day of Treachery" – and Gove cast as a Machiavellian villain who knifed his old friend Boris Johnson, the former mayor of London and the Leave campaign's top face, in the back.
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GitHub is also the place where top-tier tech companies make would-be proprietary programming languages, frameworks, and tools available for free – a Machiavellian move that allows engineers to self-select into a pool of qualified applicants perfectly trained to work for them.
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We may never know, but it's certainly possible — if wild and baseless internet conspiracy theories have taught us anything, it's that George W. Bush is a Machiavellian genius, capable of covering up his involvement in some of the biggest events in modern history.
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Those of a more Machiavellian disposition, and here read a good number of hard-line Brexiteers, it is almost as if May, who voted to remain in the EU during the 2016 Brexit referendum, has been engaged in a years-long filibuster.
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When speaking about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he called him "an extraordinarily skilled" politician and diplomat, according to the Gazette, but also noted that Bibi, as he's commonly known, can be "a bit Machiavellian" in his cultivation of relationships for later use.
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Two fairly major reveals arrive at the end of the episode: that Congresswoman Hookstraten fancies herself a Machiavellian schemer and plans to take down the Kirkman presidency, and that MacLeish, as expected, is in the pocket of the enemy but growing weary.
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But athletes being athletes, some of them and their coaches began to wonder in recent years whether, if heat acclimation taxes the body and makes it stronger, would exacerbating the physical difficulties of acclimation lead to greater adaptations, in approved Machiavellian style?
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This fall, White Light will also present "DruidShakespeare: Richard III," a play generally seen as more Machiavellian that metaphysical, in a production of Ireland's Druid theater company, which brought its acclaimed "DruidShakespeare: The History Plays" to the Lincoln Center Festival in 2015.
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Lindsey said during his presentation that Xi was found to be equally narcissistic, but was in a different sphere than Trump because he was also considered to be a "Machiavellian" person who treated his deputies, and his country, poorly -- something Lindsey didn't attribute to Trump.
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What ensues in The Spanish Princess, based on Philippa Gregory's book The Constant Princess, is a bit of a fish-out-of-water comedy (the English weather isn't to Catherine's liking), but mostly a series of Machiavellian ministrations from the women of the court.
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But the murder, treachery and Machiavellian back-stabbing that almost routinely took place among the imperial family and elites in the pursuit of power — lurid wars for succession and influence so vicious as to make "Game of Thrones" or "The Hunger Games" seem almost polite.
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I think it starts off with this Machiavellian notion in the 16th century that political systems are pure power-seeking processes, and that there's no end to the pursuit of power and you can never have enough power and you will never stop pursuing power.
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Mr. Saleh, who was killed on Monday in Yemen under circumstances that remained unclear, was a canny manipulator of Yemen's complex tribal politics who once likened his presidency to "dancing on the heads of snakes," but his Machiavellian skills and good luck finally ran out.
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That was the conceit that the Scottish director David McVicar used two decades ago, when he first staged Handel's "Agrippina," a black comedy about a mother's Machiavellian machinations to make her son, Nero, the emperor of Rome, and set it in the present day.
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Since then, she's published four additional novels set in the same world —The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, A Conspiracy of Kings, and now Thick as Thieves — devoted both to Gen's continuing exploits and to the elaborate, Machiavellian political intrigues going on all around him.
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What a joy then that solid, convincing examples of real collaboration, fallings out, and deliciously Machiavellian manoeuvring to further their own careers takes centre stage in the form of drawings provided by Michelangelo, realised by Sebastiano in paint, and compelling letters between the political movers and shakers.
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And we finally got to realize his dream yesterday as Canadian politics transformed itself into the perfect middle ground between the petty Machiavellian genius of Armando Iannucci's English political satire, The Thick of It, and his more broad and on-the-nose American political satire, Veep.
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I read about their parents (Al and Cristal Lil, who dosed themselves on radioactive elixirs in a quest to breed a family of freaks), and their siblings (Machiavellian genius Arty, telekinetic Chick, and Oly, the humpbacked albino girl who is the book's wry and heartbroken narrator).
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Icahn on Tuesday referred to Fujifilm as a "supposed 'partner' whose conduct over the last year is more unbelievable than what you see on fictional TV shows like House of Cards or Billions," referring to popular television series about Machiavellian intrigue in the corridors of political power.
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"A young master" (20103), meanwhile, is your wiliest little cousin, the one who plays 22010-D chess in his mind and may yet grow up to possess the kind of Machiavellian mastery of the streets that will mean, in turn, that the streets can't defeat him.
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Although much less Machiavellian in its machinations, due to its very nature as a makeover show for mostly heterosexual men, Queer Eye's reliance upon women for climactic affirmation cruelly robs them of their free will, or even the capacity to appear as fully realized human beings.
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Beyond the torrent and staggering scale of the accusations, many Brazilians have been shocked that the latest scandal became public because Mr. Temer, a veteran of Brazil's Machiavellian politics, stepped into a trap that has ensnared him before: He was caught on tape by someone he trusted.
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Ivo van Hove, the acclaimed international theater director, will stage the play, about executives at a struggling TV network and their Machiavellian maneuvers for higher ratings — including the manipulation of Mr. Cranston's character, the "mad as hell" television host that Peter Finch played in the film.
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Veep: "Veep" (Season 22, Episode 21) First aired: May 12, 2019 In the 2010s, television alternated between depicting politics as an aspirational realm that rewards hope and brilliance (Parks and Recreation, Madam Secretary) or as Machiavellian drama rich in conspiracy and murder (House of Cards, Scandal).
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Targets include Harrison Ford ("in person,…a little man"), Oliver Stone (suggestive of a "Machiavellian filmmaker who would throw his own mother down a flight of stairs if it would help him get his project financed") and Hollywood generally (some actors are "drug-addled, fornicating madmen").
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When she became fed up with the Machiavellian tactics of Martin Selmayr, then chief of staff to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, a man she described as "poisonous" to POLITICO, Georgieva arranged for the World Bank to create a new CEO post, then upped and left.
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But it wasn't the final act of this Machiavellian soap opera: appointed in his place was Arkan's 24-year-old trophy wife Ceca, who just happened to be the nation's biggest pop star and the Serbian equivalent of Dolly Parton, equipped with grotesquely oversized breast implants.
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Italian economists suspect further Machiavellian plotting: if the ruling populists were to elevate an official at the Bank of Italy to the ECB, that in turn gives them a chance to install one of their own at the bank in Rome, realising their ambition to gain influence over it.
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In the centuries since his rise and grisly fall, he has been regarded as a pragmatic arch-bureaucrat; a Machiavellian eminence whose machinations enabled Henry's break with the church of Rome and the king's despotism; a jumped-up thug bent on self-advancement; or the principled architect of the parliamentary system.
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So while it's unclear how long Kalanick has been planning the launch of 10100, it seems in some ways to suggest an admission on the Uber co-founder's part that his role as a Machiavellian behind-the-scenes player at the ride-hailing company may be coming to a close.
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As his career seesawed through periods of revolutionary zeal and confrontation with powerful conservative rivals, he was portrayed as a Machiavellian and often ruthless player in the power struggles among Iran's elite factions, protected by his close association with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the revolutionary leader who overthrew the shah in 1979.
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We wanted to kind of create a modern story, some new writing, which felt like it had come from a book that hadn't been found 100 years ago and then see what we could do without any dragons or C.G.I. James Delaney is an explorer, a Machiavellian sort of type.
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Then there's the best moment of the finale, where Bachmann delivers a long explanation of the Machiavellian maneuvers he undertook to get the company more funding—it's impossible to describe but it involves a lot of name-dropping of real-life VCs and jacking off (but not to completion) at a hardware store.
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"A dispute resolution process has been initiated with Apple, which seemingly removes any optionality around alternative commercial arrangements being struck, or that Apple is playing some form of Machiavellian game for a price cut or to buy PowerVR at a knock-down price," Investec analyst Roger Phillips said in a note on Thursday.
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Petyr Baelish used to be subtle about his Machiavellian plans, but the guy has zero chill in the Season 7 promotional materials we've seen so far — everywhere we look, he's skulking around in the background, whispering wicked words in Sansa's ear and generally creating mischief like a bearded Loki with an undefinable accent.
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The 212-episode series, with Jeremy Renner among its executive producers, reunites Mr. Cullen with a couple of other "Downton" alums: Julian Ovenden (Lord Gillingham's rival for Mary's affections) as the king's Machiavellian counsel; and Jim Carter (beloved Mr. Carson, the Crawleys' ever-loyal butler), lording over a kingdom as Pope Boniface VIII.
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Conservatives have been encouraged in thinking by such Machiavellian figures as Paul Manafort, the Trump campaign chairman, who told the Huffington Post, a website, in May that the putative president wanted an "experienced" vice-president to do bits of the job that do not appeal to him, leaving Mr Trump a "chairman of the board".
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Operating under the Machiavellian name "Wildlife Services," this agency has killed millions of birds and mammals since 2000, both predators targeted by the livestock industry as well as "non-target species" killed by indiscriminate traps, snares and poisons set out on the land to eliminate species that the ranching industry finds inconvenient to their operations.
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" It's why some historians talk with undisguised admiration about the mean streak of President Andrew Jackson, who once killed a man for insulting his wife; the frontier-honed strength of the towering Abraham Lincoln; or even the Machiavellian cunning of Lyndon Johnson, who once said he couldn't trust a man "unless I have his pecker in my pocket.
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Season 4 picks up amid a bitter Democratic primary battle between Kevin Spacey's character Frank Underwood, a Machiavellian South Carolina politician who would stop at nothing to win, and Heather Dunbar -- a former United States solicitor general, who never held public office and whose personal wealth allows her to self-fund her campaign without the aid of super PACs.
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The release last Thursday of that collection, "Letters to Anne" — along with a fanciful scrapbook Mr. Mitterrand kept for Ms. Pingeot from 19963 to 21996 — offer a rare glimpse into the life of a man generally seen as icy and Machiavellian, and who never left his wife even while he lived for years with Ms. Pingeot.
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While other potential cabinet members we've profiled here have made careers playing a Machiavellian game of climate denial chess, Perry is playing a much simpler game, perhaps climate denial Speak-N-Say, with each pull of the string leading him to say and do things that make him unfit to serve in any position of authority.
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" You can forgive an actor an awful lot when he can produce something so sublimely deadpan, and then, in Baldwin's particular case, eventually go on to play the great Jack Donaghy on "30 Rock," his dark eyes glinting with anarchic, Machiavellian intelligence; and then to out-dumb President Donald J. Trump on the current season of "Saturday Night Live.
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As he griped about being the victim of a political coup (he ultimately appealed, so far in vain, to the European Court of Human Rights), members of his party defected, and in 2015 Matteo Renzi, the brash new prime minister from the Democratic Party whom Mr. Berlusconi had admired as an heir, dashed his comeback dreams with Machiavellian efficiency.
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Lawyers for President Trump unleashed a blistering attack on ex-FBI Director James Comey in a confidential memo last year to the special counsel in the Russian election meddling probe, casting him as "Machiavellian," dishonest and "unbounded by law and regulation" as they sought to undermine the credibility of a law enforcement leader they see as a critical witness against the president.
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I had a machiavellian reason for wanting to do that because I didn't want people to give up faith in the system and I wanted to get reelected, you know, and I thought in a state like Colorado, which was a third, a third, a third, it was important to show that you could work with people on the other side.
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We, as a country, have decided that we're totally cool with one entire half of the political spectrum duking it out between a fascist who's ready to tear apart our most fundamental Constitutional liberties in the name of racism and a Machiavellian lizard man who would prefer to literally fuck the Constitution in the name of depriving Americans of basic governmental services.
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Eig closely chronicles Ali's tangled financial arrangements with the Machiavellian triad Don King, Bob Arum and Herbert Muhammad, which were not always to his advantage; the reader soon becomes dismayed, then outraged, by the systematic and protracted exploitation of the too-trusting Ali in the years beyond 1974, when he should have retired (after the hard-won victory against George Foreman).
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Magic Johnson, who has a soap opera star's urgent need to share his innermost feelings, went on ESPN on Monday and turned Stephen A. Smith into his therapist in a basketball version of "Analyze Me." Magic had quit the Lakers just before the last game of the season, and now he was intent on painting his general manager, Rob Pelinka, as a Machiavellian back stabber.
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His versatility and boundless curiosity shine in "Figures in a Landscape," a new collection of essays (to be published on May 8), and in his latest autobiographical novel, "Mother Land" (which will be published in paperback on May 1), where Mr. Theroux takes readers to his beloved Cape Cod and deep inside the Machiavellian world of a large, dysfunctional family run by a scheming matriarch.
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Richard Nixon (who else?) made it the centerpiece of arguably the most Machiavellian strategy in modern American political history: His Philadelphia Plan, with its blatant minority business set-asides and insistence on craft unions' acceptance of blacks, was the most extreme hard version of the program ever undertaken, resulting in major improvements for blacks at all levels of the economy, to the applause of nearly every black leader.
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The mechanism is complicated, involving brainwashing, fake heroism and an assassination scheme, but the core conceit has a distinctive genius: The agent of influence the Communists intend to raise to the presidency is basically a Joseph McCarthy figure — a right-wing politician named Johnny Iselin who rants about Red infiltrators even as he's actually being manipulated himself, by a Machiavellian wife who takes her orders from Moscow or Beijing.
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As long as he had his money and his health, he could move freely about Manhattan society—showing off beautiful women he had no interest in, sexual or otherwise, as decorations; hosting clients in his home office clad in his bathrobe, in front of his collection of stuffed frogs; readily supplying eager journalists with quotes embracing his Machiavellian reputation; sabotaging politicians with salacious rumors and gleefully taking credit for the results.
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Without a hint of reflection or a twinge of good faith, the Democrats will pretend that all along the real problem with President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE has been his machiavellian interference in the justice system.
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Even when she co-authored a seemingly critical letter to the Guardian calling for more leadership from Jeremy Corbyn in the wake of this year's council elections, she bucked the usual trend: this was not an unnamed Labour source looking to incite a leadership coup, this was not some condescending figure of the establishment taking his usual pop at the Labour leader, this was a genuinely committed MP asking, in a totally non-Machiavellian way, for more.
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As Senator and former GOP presidential nominee Mitt RomneyWillard (Mitt) Mitt RomneyOvernight Defense: Turkey launches offensive against Syrian Kurds | Trump set for clash with Congress over Kurds | Senators unveil Turkey sanctions bill | Trump says Kurds 'didn't help us' in Normandy | Defense official arrested for leaking to journalists Congress set for showdown with Trump over Kurds Romney bemoans 'tragic loss of life' in Syria after Trump move MORE aptly noted, Republicans now find themselves on a Machiavellian (and Faustian) crusade to maintain power at all costs — facts, logic and duty to country be damned.
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