After a series of legal machinations, a state appeals court ruled in favor of the Power Broker.

Then there would be postponements, delays, appeals, a hopeless snarl of legal machinations that could drag out indefinitely.

Papa Wieck, unalterably opposed to the match, resorted to legal machinations to prevent their marrying.

After three and a half years of legal machinations, his relatives took the witness stand to describe his life, their loss.

If you expect me to reveal some legal machination by which I gained my freedom, you are mistaken.

Others see the legal machinations as offering little more than intrigue.

Some political analysts said legal machinations would have little bearing on the president's survival.

The verdict, after three and a half years of legal machinations, concluded an agonizing chapter for the Police Department.

The film screened at Cannes yesterday and offers a bleak view of the legal machinations behind the case.

The legal machinations of two lawyers.