(n.) A number of persons united in some close design, usually to promote their private views and interests in church or state by intrigue; a secret association composed of a few designing persons; a junto.
(n.) The secret artifices or machinations of a few persons united in a close design; intrigue.
(v. i.) To unite in a small party to promote private views and interests by intrigue; to intrigue; to plot.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is the way these packages are constructed by a small cabal of longstanding advisers, drawing on the mechanics of game theory, that has driven the exponential increases in value over the past two decades.
(2) The antigen for the CT was prepared from lyophilized Babesia caballi complement-fixation (CF) antigen.
(3) A cabal of corporate types has been signed up to provide wise counsel to David Cameron .
(4) Most grownup democracies regard such leadership as most accountable where it is embodied in one person, rather than expressed through the cabalism of party groups and shifting coalitions.
(5) But before Game of Thrones was even a series, House Targaryen was toppled by a cabal of sweaty northern feudal lords, headed, naturally, by Mark Addy and Sean Bean.
(6) 321 sera of horses were examined for specific antibodies to Babesia by means of CFT and IIF in 1984; 18 sera reacted to Babesia equi and 4 to Babesia caballi antigen.
(7) These protests represent a group of like-minded individuals coming together to demonstrate their frustration and unhappiness at a system that is rigged in favour of an elite of unelected cabals who have undue influence over the lives of working people.
(8) Asserting in 2002 that "America did, in Afghanistan, what had to be done and did it well," he commended Hamid Karzai's CIA-sponsored cabal of warlords – apparently, it was "surprising people by functioning pretty well".
(9) But if taken in their entirety, and if true – the government denies it – they offer a damning vision of a corrupt cabal at the head of the Egyptian regime.
(10) The IFA test indicated a prevalence of 90% for B. caballi and 94% for B. equi.
(11) BBC may have to share licence fee with rivals Read more The subtleties involved in an organisation failing to suppress news about its repressive news management were wasted on hordes of aggrieved conservatives, who had always suspected that their favourite sources were being blacklisted by a cabal of liberal geeks.
(12) The specificity of the clones for B. caballi was established by the lack of hybridization to Babesia equi, Babesia bovis, Babesia bigemina and equine DNA.
(13) It is a resolution that the most surprising people, in the most surprising of contexts, continue to find themselves unable to show - I am thinking, for example, of the recently reported remarks of Labour MP Tam Dalyell, who said Tony Blair had been "unduly influenced by a cabal of Jewish advisers".
(14) Acknowledgment: I wish to thank Doctors Stephen A. Ockner and John Cacciamani for the kind referral of their patient and Doctor Edito Cabal, St. Louis Veterans Administration Hospital, who performed the arteriography.
(15) Slowly, my colleagues and I in Congress have been chipping away at this secret cabal ever since.
(16) Inflation was developed by a cabal of theorists over a number of years.
(17) On Thursday the president told a party congress there was a “treacherous cabal” bent on removing him from power.
(18) Probably because "Gnod" resembles a conflation of "God" and "synod", they have an air about them of a quasi-religious sect, a cabal, a secret society.
(19) The horse contracted a B. caballi infection showing a prepatent period of 19 days after tick infestation.
(20) He'll even be going to Washington's (not really) secret all-powerful Republican cabal meeting today: Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) Manchin to meet with Grover Norquist's "Wednesday Group" in an effort to get votes for background check plan.
Intrigue
Definition:
(v. i.) To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice.
(v. i.) To carry on a secret and illicit love or amour.
(v. t.) To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate; to embarrass.
(v. i.) Intricacy; complication.
(v. i.) A complicated plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
(v. i.) The plot or romance; a complicated scheme of designs, actions, and events.
(v. i.) A secret and illicit love affair between two persons of different sexes; an amour; a liaison.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is an intriguing moment: the new culture secretary, Sajid Javid, who was brought in to replace Maria Miller last month, is something of an unknown quantity.
(2) So I am, of course, intrigued about the city’s newest tourist attraction: a hangover bar, open at weekends, in which sufferers can come in and have a bit of a lie down in soothingly subdued lighting, while sipping vitamin-enriched smoothies.
(3) In this review, Warner Greene and colleagues discuss recent studies that have revealed an intriguing molecular interplay between two pathogenic human retroviruses, HIV-1 and HTLV-1, and certain cellular genes that normally control T-cell growth.
(4) Most intriguing of all is the potential for the mould to "expect" changes in its environment.
(5) The reports of rod-dominated psychophysical spectral sensitivity from the deprived eye of monocularly lid-sutured (MD) monkeys are intriguing but difficult to reconcile with the absence of any reported deprivation effects in retina.
(6) I was intrigued, and spent the next few weeks getting my teeth into the subject.
(7) Whether committed glial cells in situ can be induced to switch their lineage when normal CNS conditions are altered is an intriguing question that remains to be answered.
(8) The sustained regenerative responses are considered intriguing and may have relevance both for head-injured humans and for future studies of central nervous system regeneration.
(9) It also intrigues me that the reaction of some women when challenged on this question so uncannily echoes the defence of sexist men in the 60s and 70s: come off it, love, it's just a bit of harmless fun.
(10) The breathtaking response of the geosphere as the great ice sheets crumbled might be considered as providing little more than an intriguing insight into the prehistoric workings of our world, were it not for the fact that our planet is once again in the throes an extraordinary climatic transformation – this time brought about by human activities.
(11) Lastly, we can expect greater clarification about the importance of various 11q13 genes found coamplified in nearly 20% of primary breast cancers, and pursuit into the intriguing possibility that a cyclin-encoding gene represents the overexpressed locus of real interest in this amplicon.
(12) As a nod to the me-centred world we live in, the exhibition will also feature the responses to an altogether more contemporary Mass Observation directive from 2012, intriguingly entitled Photography and You , which was specially commissioned for the Photographers' Gallery show.
(13) I cannot see anything before October, or even the end of the year, because there remain some difficult topics to resolve.” Lozano is most intriguing on two things: the issue of justice, and what he sees as a potential impasse over economic policy and the role of multinational corporations, especially those wanting to extract Colombia’s significant riches in gold, emeralds, coal, hydrocarbons and minerals, or turn grassland into palm oil plantations.
(14) The repositioning of Ashley Young is particularly intriguing given that Sir Alex Ferguson uses him as a right-footed left-winger at Manchester United.
(15) That was the thing that intrigued us: rewarding obscure knowledge, while allowing people to also give obvious answers.
(16) Narcolepsy, with its specific symptomatology is an intriguing but often frightening disease.
(17) The production of the latter chemotaxin by mononuclear phagocytes is especially intriguing as these cells can mediate inflammatory cell migration by either directly generating IL-8, or by inducing its production from surrounding nonimmune cells.
(18) The journalist went on to make an intriguing and chilling comparison: "There was a guy who lived in a country in Europe back in the twenties and thirties and into the forties.
(19) This finding raises the intriguing possibility that protein-S might play a role in bone turnover and bone mass.
(20) "It may well have been entertaining or it may well not have been entertaining, but what I find the most intriguing point is that he went to work and thought it might be.