Entreplaneteurs' Corporate Security also deal with security issues, often in opposition to Municipal Security; especially if it contradicts their secret machinations.

On 16 February 1808, secret French machinations finally materialised when Napoleon announced that he would intervene to mediate between the rival political factions in the Spanish royal family.

Iran-contra, with its secret machinations, was at war with the principle of accountability.

It was WHIG's secret machinations more than four years ago that led directly to those shredded lives.

Was every quirk of behavior, every bend in the road, every twist of circumstance, to be the result of the secret machinations of Earth?

Blue Block and its secret machinations had been a blight on the Empire far too long, and she would bring them to book, whatever it took.

The law empowered the President to expel aliens "judge[d] dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States" or suspected of "treasonable or secret machinations."

It asked her how much damage a well-placed Tal Shiar science adjunct might do to the Empire's secret machinations.

Today, Mr. Humer attributed the wrongdoing to what he called the secret machinations of the implicated executives.

After this he would return to Australia, but soon rejoins a team of Guardians to rescue those still endangered by the secret machinations of Harjavti.