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The plot depends on many ridiculous contrivances.
The whole thing was a contrivance of the government's media spin machine.
By his clever contrivance, they both arrived at the same time.
What does this little contrivance do?
Doctors used a variety of mechanical contrivances to let blood, such as a little folding knife called a "lancet".
With care and sensitivity he manages to juxtapose, place and transform his field recordings without contrivance.
In spite of the clear benefit with the use of 'unreal' examples, there is a persistent prejudice against such contrivance.
This is only a preliminary surprise as readers familiar with the joyful outcome of his contrivance already know.
Punctuation delineates rhetorical structure, so that a reader can be explicitly alerted to certain formal contrivances relevant to the communicative significances embodied in a text.
Lest one think that this type of sample-tosample difference is a theoretical contrivance unlikely to happen in practice, several simple "thought experiments" suggest the opposite.
Anything more is merely a superfluous philosophical contrivance.
These technical contrivances constitute the substance of the economic process.
These rights are never given by nature, but are rather the result of social - and normally governmental - contrivance.
Some impression of significant movement had to be given, even if this involved a degree of contrivance.
This contrivance smoothed land thus facilitating seed covering.
The whole complex of these contrivances is technology.
There is good reason for this apparent contrivance.
At the present time, when the manufacture has attained a mature growth, all the operations, with vastly increased means and more complex contrivances, are again performed in a single building.
Clay is always clay, and the steam driven contrivance that will mould a basin while a man sits and watches has yet to be invented.
The alleged contrivance was that the defendant in each of the cases was telling an untruth about himself in the description in his nomination paper.
