Contriving

Penalties should be imposed not only for lax adherence to the rules but also for excess severity in contriving them.

Earlier, in May last year, ICC had provisionally suspended Thomas for corruption through seven charges under its anti-corruption code, including contriving to fix matches.

Instead of Mayaki to be drafting a memorable concession speech, he is busy contriving rigging plans of PDP.

They accused the NASC investigative committee of contriving a petition from an unknown group and reaching a decision without hearing from the association of the National Assembly workers.

But many of its opponents deeply question the fairness and transparency of the Chinese court system and worry about security forces contriving charges.

Points to director Sam Raimi for contriving the rare innovation on the classic lip-lock by suspending Tobey Maguire upside-down to plant one on Kirsten Dunst, their faces forming a perfect symmetry as the space between them disappears.

The racist, dehumanizing and hideous term “” has been coined to imply that the entire Palestinian population are consistently conniving and contriving staged fictions of their brutal treatment to defame Israel.

Contriving to catch the illicit couple in the act, Hephaestus fashioned a finely-knitted and nearly invisible net with which to snare them.

From 1620 until Osman's death, a governess (daye hatun, lit. wet-nurse) was appointed as a stand-in valide, and she could not counterbalance the contriving of Mustafa I 's mother in the Old Palace.