The big question is how quickly that embryo will contrive to grow into a fully functioning, self-sufficient adult.

ECONOMIST: Europe��s elusive foreign minister

" you innocently ask, helping me to contrive a narrative flow, "I've never heard of SDI Technologies, either.

ENGADGET: Switched On: When Clock Meets Dock

Most surprising of all, he manages somehow to contrive a happy ending.

BBC: The Squanderland Roof and the eurozone crisis

Astonished at their outrage, Parliament authored tax subsidies to contrive consent.

FORBES: Why The Tea Party Is Essential: Liberty, Prosperity And Justice

There was a bleak but orderly look to the place, a suggestion of the minimal but precise comfort that a lone man a regulated lone man might contrive.

NEWYORKER: Amundsen

There was never any prospect of the two captains trying to contrive a positive result at the start of play as both sides had too much to lose.

BBC: Somerset remain in title picture

But the secret police and army, his family-connected network of businessmen and cronies, who control much of the economy and suborn enough politicians, and a slavishly deferential state-controlled press all contrive to keep him going.

ECONOMIST: What next for Slobodan Milosevic?

If there is a single lesson to take away from these indictments, it is that we must always remember that human nature dictates that the invisible hand that moves markets and economies gets every nudge it can, by any means fair and foul, from anyone who can contrive to gain power over it.

FORBES: The Insider Trading Scandal: Another Black Eye for Wall Street

Ministers were well aware that the latest official statistics on England's house-building were due for release yesterday morning and their contents but, rather than contrive to coincide with the most recent data, the prime minister and his deputy invited the cameras to watch them plod through the mud of a housing development precisely 24 hours earlier.

BBC: Building trust in building statistics