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Article 101(1) does cover contrived oligopolistic pricing that involves the formation of an anticompetitive agreement but does not cover contrived oligopolistic pricing in which the contriver relies exclusively on anticompetitive threats.

(37) Although the term "contrivance" is a key synonym for "design" or "purpose," terms that were at issue in the period for their implication of a creator (or contriver, designer, artificer), Hopkins is not after a theodicy here.

Once face to face, it often comes to light that the contriver is a poor creature considered as a man, when he essays a preface.

My edition of the Oxford English Dictionary gives some wide definitions for the word 'engineer', including "skilful or artful contriver".

(8) More, as "author and contriver" of "poetical" books, merely imagines purgatory exists, according to Foxe.

(The contriver of my program Having lately developed a multiple personality, My calls for help keep reaching the wrong one.) Had it caught some "computer virus"?

The Divine Intelligence is not, Mill said, an "Omnipotent Creator" but the "extremely probable one" of "a contriver working under the limitation of inexorable laws and indestructible properties of matter":

The 157th principle of the constitution says: "The leader determines a just and wise priest who is headmaster, contriver and familiar with judicial affairs for five years as the head of the judiciary, in order to carry out all judicial responsibilities in all judicial and administrative affairs that is the supreme authority of the judiciary."

Jonson not only admired the Jacobean court; as an expert contriver of court masques, he actively encouraged its delusions and extravagance.

Hemingway had been to war too, and had been wounded, but despite the gloss of misery and disenchantment that overlaid his work, Jim maintained, [Hemingway] was at heart a war lover, a macho contriver of romantic effects, and to all but the gullible and wishful the lie showed glaringly through the fabric of his books and in his life.

Or born contriver Grylls tucked up in a warm hotel when he was supposed to be braving the harsh conditions of the wilderness.

Medea's name etymologically suggests 'mental contriver': Medeia/medomai/metis (Segal 1982).

She's a clever contriver, adept at adding a patina of apparent relevance, even a veneer of feminism, to situations that are otherwise bogus and artificial." (28) Thus reviews of the film were peppered with barbs directed not just at its genre per se but at its director, who is frequently situated as a purveyor of highly manufactured (if also highly successful), overly opulent, female-focussed Hollywood flannel.

(8) Thus Bertrand Russell bolsters this antitheistic argument with the acid comment that "an omnipotent Being who created a world containing evil not due to sin must Himself be at least partially evil." (9) After all, it seems only plausible to suppose that if there indeed is a deity acting as the intelligent contriver of the universe, he would have prevented all sorts of misfortunes and disasters.