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He characterizes the stories that Henry James and James Joyce rejected as those with 'plot structures tending to require a set of coincidences or connivances of circumstance.'

Narrative Strategies 2009

He doesn't say much, but every time Dannatt opens his mouth the contrast between his no-nonsense honesty and the connivances of defence ministers becomes starker.

A man of few words 2009

The later historical perspectives are quite clear and distinct about U.S. connivances and failures along with its ever-broadening reach for empire.

After America - Book Review 2009

If, by some remote chance, we notice someone attempting to do something nice for us, or going out of their way to befriend us, we will not be “taken in” by their insincere connivances.

The Great Projection 2008

The material is strewed over a round and smoothed floor of dried mud in the open air and threshed by different connivances.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Hillary Clinton is grim, stentorian, was born to politics and its connivances.

'A Servant's Heart' 2008

If the internet can help call out Wal-Mart for its manipulations and connivances during this election cycle in the US, then I'm all for it.

Is Wal-Mart Pressuring Employees To Vote Republican? 2008

And of course all the backstairs connivances and executive diktats from the throne room do nothing to curry favour with Mr/Mrs Canada and the folks out in the back of beyond.

Why Is Maxime Bernier Still Minister Of Foreign Affairs??? 2008

The deceitful connivances of the current administration have resulted in a war catastrophic to our nation’s interests: politically, economically, militarily, and morally.

Firedoglake » Cheney Ordered Libby To Leak Classified Information 2006

She bore no pride more high than knowing she had been in the forefront of the battle for this, the call, the politics, the bargains and connivances, setbacks and despair and toilsome return, until the World Federation agreed that a wholly alive new world was worth paying for.

The Stars Are Also Fire Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1994