Definition, Betydelse, Synonymer & Anagram | Engelska ordet CONTRIVE

Definition av CONTRIVE

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• Convinced that the Marquis de Campoverde, the Spanish general in charge of Tarragona, was not up to the task, Codrington, who had a clearer understanding of the situation, helped the British military agent Charles William Doyle to contrive a plan of succour.
• If caught and held or rather in danger of being held, for if caught with the ball in possession he loses a snotch, he throws the ball (he must in no case give it) to some less beleaguered friend more free and more in breath than himself, who if it be not arrested in its course or be jostled away by the eager and watchful adversaries, catches it; and he in like manner hastens homeward, in like manner pursued, annoyed and aided, winning the notch or snotch if he contrive to carry or throw it within the goals.
• Clitophon approaches Satyrus, who explains that Clio has fallen in love with him, and will help contrive a private meeting for him with the maiden.
• He singled out "Stay with Me" as the exception, commenting that "you forget about Bell's grating neo-operatic warble and wonder instead at one of those breathtaking chord sequences Clarke seems to contrive every few years".
• As a preliminary, Abu Bakr demanded that the governor of Ceuta, Fernando de Noronha, be relieved from office – his reputation was such that the Moroccans believed Noronha would contrive to prevent the swap.
• The Congress of the Confederate States of America do enact, That the first section of the above entitled Act be so amended, that, in case any person or persons shall invent or construct any new machine or engine, or contrive any new method for destroying the armed vessels of the enemy, he or they shall receive fifty per centum of the value of each and every such vessel that may be sunk or destroyed, by means of such invention or contrivance.
• The sequence is thoroughly welcome and almost desperately needed to counteract a certain Jane One-Note implicit in the tale of a stage mother whose egotisms become something of a bore despite the canny skills of director-producer Mervyn LeRoy to contrive it otherwise.
• Soft focus, psychedelic filters and a tirelessly swinging camera can of course contrive to make any neighbourhood look like a poet's dream of Montmartre, but one soon wearies of the sight of the hero mouthing the lyrics of some unmemorable and over-orchestrated songs as he busily pedals along, while the attempt to create a slapstick sequence with a member of the tricycle set and a few custard pies is possibly even more embarrassing than the scene in which Steve gathers plastic daffodils amid the autumn leaves of Primrose Hill.
• In January 2017, Lindahl was found guilty of charges of contriving or attempting to contrive the outcome of an event, and failing to cooperate with a Tennis Integrity Unit's investigation.
• However, in the midst of her revelation, Covenant and Jeremiah contrive to instigate a confrontation between the Viles and Garroting Deep's Forestal, Caerroil Wildwood.
• Would it not be possible, she asked her brother, "to contrive some useful machinery to supply the use of horses and servants" and as a visitor to the Poorhouse, she was to press the guardians to see whether the washerwomen might be relieved by "any new constructed washing machines, or any for wringing".
• Ralph Richardson, looking altogether too robust for his relations' anxiety to appear likely, employs a variety of stage mannerisms (his first entrance, in particular, is purely of the stage), Celia Johnson gives the impression, whether intentional or not, that the self-sacrificing daughter rather enjoys her martyrdom and Denholm Elliott and Margaret Leighton have to contrive emotional crises out of the thinnest material.
• Narrated by the three privates—mostly Mulvaney, the loquacious Irishman, and Ortheris —The Three Musketeers tells the story of how the three contrive not only to 'protest' (like the junior officers) against a proposed special parade requested by a visiting grandee, Lord Benira Trigg, but to have it cancelled and humiliate the Lord and receive a five-pound note apiece from him, for being "a honour to the British Harmy".
• The upper classes, represented by Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding – who contrive to look as though they were posing for an advertisement in a glossy magazine – suffer bravely but woodenly over their champagne.
• Together with Jelena, another conspiracy theorist whose father worked at Area 51, they contrive to sneak onto the military base using signal jammers, night vision goggles, Freon-laced jumpsuits, and pills to mask their ammonia levels.
• Here is the climax of my lectures, and here is where you should be frightened; and if I had an orchestral accompaniment, here is where the orchestra would have mounted to a tumultuous fortissimo, with the drums rolling and the trumpets blaring and the tuba groaning and the strings in a frenzy, and whatever else a Richard Wagner could contrive to cause a sense of Gotterdammerung; for, let there be no doubt of it, this is something that could bring on the twilight of civilization.
• Crozat reported that Wobogo "spent his time consulting holy men who had him under their control and who used up the resources of the realm to contrive the oddest and most expensive charms in order to allay the ruler's fear that he would be assassinated".
• " Alexis Petridis of The Guardian said "the dragging beats, washes of synthesizer and eclectic musical references – chillwave and crunk hip-hop, Aaliyah and France Gall – somehow contrive to sound not just eerie and desolate but cosseting as well, inexorably drawing the listener into a deeply troubling world.
• Findlay in Christiania, like Howard in Stockholm, had to act with the greatest circumspection, and in his multifarious negotiations with the Norwegian Government, trade trusts, and individual firms, had to contrive to get the maximum harm done to German interests with the minimum harm to Russian and Allied interests.

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