For most people, however, assisted suicide remains difficult and expensive and requires the ability to machinate around medical standards and the law.

She cited the example of Marguerite-Louise, adding that the Pope did not bother himself to machinate a reconciliation.

What do we need a WTO for, if those with power continue to machinate independently, as soon as they themselves come up for public scrutiny?

Christina Hoag of the Omaha World-Herald noted it as a departure for a show which revolves: "around a plush Beverly Hills mansion where characters who look like magazine models manipulate and machinate for love and money."