Valve Software, the creators of games such as Half-Life, use " Cabal Rooms " when working on projects such as new games or bug fixes.

A year later, Jack reunites with a few members of the Cabal and conceives a plan to carry goods through a route that no traders can use because it is controlled by armies of plunderers.

Jack shows the Cabal how to produce phosphorus from urine, and they use it to fight their way through.

However, the Cabal Ministry they formed can hardly be seen as such ; the Scot Lauderdale was not much involved in English governance at all, while the Catholic ministers of the Cabal ( Clifford and Arlington ) were never much in sympathy with the Protestants ( Buckingham and Ashley ).

Finding their handlers could no longer control Commons, and that the goodwill that had attended Charles II at the Restoration was wearing thin, the Cabal recommended doing without them, and persuaded Charles II to keep parliament out of session with repeated prorogations.

* England's appeal from the Private Cabal at Whitehall to the Great Council of the Nation by a true Lover of his Country-pamphlet attributed to Sir William Coventry

Gates has been described as " one of the Revolution's most controversial military figures " because of his role in the Conway Cabal, which attempted to discredit and replace George Washington ; the battle at Saratoga ; and Gates's actions after his defeat at Camden.

Some mottes could be square instead of round, such as at Cabal Trump.

A Cabal ship is docked nearby, but Caleb does not waste time and sinks the vessel ; he also has the chance to visit some forgotten Catacombs while at the aqueducts.

Taskmaster was present at a Cabal meeting when Norman Osborn assembles them to discuss about Asgard.

Sir William Coventry, the Secretary to the Admiralty, resigned from office following a duel challenge from the Duke of Buckingham, and re-emerged in the House of Commons at the head of a group of MPs known as the " Country Party ", which loudly opposed the Cabal and its policies.

* David S. Brody, Cabal of the Westford Knight: Templars at the Newport Tower: a novel 2009, Martin and Lawrence Press, Groton, Mass: ISBN 0-9773898-7-1

In 1673 a pamphlet entitled England's appeal from the Private Cabal at Whitehall to the Great Council of the Nation by a true Lover of his Country went through five editions.

The Cabal was, or perhaps is, a grouping of set theorists in Southern California, particularly at UCLA and Caltech, but also at UC Irvine.

During most of its existence, the cabal ( sometimes capitalized ) steadfastly denied its own existence ; those involved would often respond " There is no Cabal " ( sometimes abbreviated as " TINC "), whenever the existence or activities of the group were speculated on in public.

* alt. conspiracy. usenet-cabal FAQ on the Cabal and TINC

Thus the " Cabal Ministry " never really unified in its members ' aims and sympathies, and fell apart by 1672 ; Lord Ashley, who became Earl of Shaftesbury, later became one of Charles II's fiercest opponents.

The group, who came to prominence after the fall of Charles's first prime minister, Lord Clarendon, in 1667, was rather called the Cabal because of its secretiveness and lack of responsibility to the " Country party " then run out of power.

As mentioned in the article " The Enemy Within " by Mark Bowden, published in the June 2010 edition of The Atlantic, the Conficker Cabal is a team of specialists working to defeat the Conficker worm.

The Conficker Cabal includes Rodney Joffey, vice president and chief technologist for Neustar, Adre ' M. DiMono, one of the world's foremost authorities on Botnets, and Philip Porras who operates a large network of honeypots for SRI International.

Despite the negative connotations associated with the term " Cabal ," the name has stuck with this particular team of " good-guy geeks.

Famous crokinole player and analyst, Eric Miltenburg of Toronto referred to the " Eagan-Fitzgerald Cabal " of the 1940s, when the two families shared their playing secrets with each other.

A recurring plot device is the Temporal Cold War, in which a mysterious entity from the 27th century uses the Cabal, a group of genetically upgraded Suliban, to manipulate the timeline and change past events.

Other scholars, like Constantino Cabal, highlighted the fact that several Galician places, such as Pico Sacro, Pedra da Barca ( Muxía ) or San Andrés de Teixido, were already draws for pagan pilgrimage in pre-Roman times.

Thus in a short time Charles's own cabinet, the Cabal Ministry, went over to the " Dutch " peace party ; Lord Shaftesbury, much shocked by the revelation, even beginning to consider driving out the troublesome House of Stuart entirely and inducing his secretary, John Locke, to further develop the legal concepts which would later be the basis of the Two Treatises of Government, which justified the Glorious Revolution of 1688.

Successful businessman John Cabal ( Raymond Massey ) cannot enjoy Christmas Day, 1940, with the ominous news of possible war.

Some time later, Cabal, now piloting a biplane, shoots down a one-man enemy bomber.

Cabal takes the girl to his aeroplane, pausing to leave the doomed man a revolver.

A montage follows, showing decades of technological progress, beginning with Cabal explaining plans for global consolidation by Wings Over the World.

The modern-day Luddites are opposed by Oswald Cabal ( Massey again ), the head of the governing council and great grandson of John Cabal.

When a mob rushes to destroy the space gun used to propel the spacecraft, Cabal launches the ship ahead of schedule.

Cabal then delivers a speech about Progress and humanity's quest for knowledge, asking, " And if we ’ re no more than animals, we must snatch each little scrap of happiness, and live, and suffer, and pass, mattering no more than all the other animals do or have done.

* Allan Jeayes as Mr. Cabal ( 1940 )

The Conway Cabal, a political intrigue against General George Washington, had its origins in the Golden Plough Tavern in York.

Clarendon's departure opened the way for the rise of a new crop of young ministers, known as " the Cabal ", a loose ministerial coalition consisting of Clifford, Arlington, Buckingham, Ashley, Lauderdale.

The existence or otherwise of cabals has led to the Internet phenomenon originating on Usenet, " TINC " ( standing for There Is No Cabal ).

Gatherings of anti-spammers on Usenet began to ridicule proponents of this theory, and many participants in news. admin. net-abuse. email chose to dub themselves as members of " the Lumber Cartel " in their signatures, followed immediately by the acronymic disclaimer " TinLC " ( There is no Lumber Cartel ), reminiscent of the There Is No Cabal catchphrase.

Although the term " Cabal Ministry " is used by historians, in reality, the five members of the Cabal ( Clifford, Arlington, Buckingham, Ashley, and Lauderdale ) never formed a coherent ministerial team.

The term " Cabal " has a double meaning in this context.

His term as treasurer began concurrently with the assumption of power by the Clarendon Ministry, but his death would precede Lord Clarendon's impeachment from the House of Commons, after which the Cabal Ministry took over government.

On the death of Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, whose administration he had attacked, his great ambition, the treasurership, was not satisfied ; and on the fall of Clarendon, against whom he had intrigued, he did not, though becoming a member of the Cabal Ministry, obtain the supreme influence which he had expected ; for Buckingham first shared, and soon surpassed him, in the royal favour.

This treaty was signed by all five members of the Cabal Ministry on 21 December 1670.

Nonetheless, parliament was shocked when, in 1668, the Cabal announced the " Triple Alliance ", which brought England into alliance with her recent enemy, the Dutch Republic.

Despite their comparative energy and efficiency, the Cabal was a fractious and unpopular lot and their infighting spilled over publicly into parliament, particularly the House of Lords.

While parliament was prorogued, the Cabal had unwisely engineered the " Great Stop of the Exchequer " in January 1672, redirecting the revenues designated for the paying of government debt towards financing a new fleet for the upcoming war.

His son, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, was a notable advisor in the reign of Charles II, and, along with Lord Ashley made up the Protestant axis of the famous Cabal Ministry.

When this letter was given to Washington it was assumed that Rush was part of a secret plot nicknamed the Conway Cabal to replace Washington with Horatio Gates as commander-in-chief.

After the fall of Clarendon, Ashley was one of the members of the so-called Cabal Ministry, serving as Lord Chancellor 1672-1673.

Following the failure of the Declaration of Indulgence and the passage of the Test Act, it was obvious to all that the Cabal Ministry's days were numbered.

Danby was a statesman of very different calibre from the leaders of the Cabal Ministry, Buckingham and Arlington.

The fort was named after Lord Clifford of Cabal.

When his name was used politically, it was used to describe the infighting known as the Conway Cabal.

The promotion over more senior colonels caused an uproar among Continental officers, especially because Wilkinson's gossiping seemed to indicate he was a participant in the Conway Cabal, a conspiracy to replace George Washington with Horatio Gates as commander-in-chief.

It was created in 1672 for Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 1st Baron Ashley, a prominent politician in the Cabal then dominating the policies of King Charles II.

Brian Keyes, a private investigator and former news reporter for the Miami Sun, is hired by the Public Defender's office to help defend the police's prime suspect in Sparky Harper's murder, a petty burglar named Ernesto Cabal, who was caught driving Harper's stolen car.

He was one of the five Counsellors who formed the Cabal, though he was probably the least important of them.