A conspiracy theory explains an event as being the result of an alleged plot by a covert group or organization or, more broadly, the idea that important political, social or economic events are the products of secret plots that are largely unknown to the general public.

The political scientist Michael Barkun discussing the usage of this term in contemporary American culture holds that a conspiracy theory is a belief which explains an event as the result of a secret plot by exceptionally powerful and cunning conspirators to achieve a malevolent end.

Guest and Levy write backgrounds for each of the characters and notecards for each specific scene, outlining the plot, and then leave it up to the actors to improvise the dialogue, which is supposed to result in a much more natural conversation than scripted dialogue would.

Déjà Vu is also a plot element in the episode " Mystery Spot " of the television series Supernatural where Sam Winchester wakes up in the same day as a result of being trapped in a time loop.

To decide what happens, the GM considers the rules of Karma ( characters ' statistics and Powers ), Drama ( the needs of the plot ), and Fortune, the result of a card drawn from the Fortune Deck.

However, the previous year Cossiga had stated that he rejects theoretical conspiracies and that it " seems unlikely that the rather impossible September 11 was the result of an American plot.

An explanation of this is that although the logarithm of the lognormal density function is quadratic in, yielding a " bowed " shape in a log-log plot, if the quadratic term is small relative to the linear term then the result can appear almost linear.

This change was necessary to support the plot change in which the killing of Kimble's wife was not a senseless murder by a transient during a botched robbery attempt ( as in the original series ) but rather the result of a fiendish plot by an evil drug company executive.

There was the clear implication ( though it was not explicitly stated ) that this was the result of a nuclear war hundreds or thousands of years before the time of the plot.

For example, humans see all Cardassian mystery stories as having an identical plot: the inevitable result is that all the suspects are eventually proved guilty of the crime and proving the supremacy of the state.

Riskin's version deviated from the original Runyon story primarily in that it linked its central character and a number of plot developments to millions of Americans who were suffering from an economic crisis as a result of the onset of the Great Depression.

Critics often dismissed Hailey's success as the result of a formulaic " potboiler " style, in which he caused an ordinary character to become involved in a crisis, then increased the suspense by switching among multiple related plot lines.

The result of this plot is shown to the right.

Historians of the late 18th and early 19th centuries viewed Charles ' death as the result of an aristocratic plot, and Gustav IV Adolf, the king who refused to settle with Napoleon Bonaparte despite the latter's superiority, " identified himself with Charles as the type of righteous man struggling with iniquity " ( Roberts ).

The main plot involves a murder as the result of " ideological intoxication ," and depicts all the disastrous moral and psychical consequences that result from the murderer.

Some confusion regarding the plot has emerged as a result of a variant poster from the film dating from 1910.

Thanks to the discovery of papyrus trial transcripts ( dated to Ramesses III ), it is now known that there was a plot against his life as a result of a royal harem conspiracy during a celebration at Medinet Habu.

The stage production had used the plot of George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man, but Shaw had been deeply offended and angered at the result.

Markedly improved from the prequel, DKC2 was praised for having excellent graphics, plot and characterisation and as a result DKC2 has received much critical and commercial praise, having sold millions of copies worldwide on the SNES, making it the second best selling game of 1995 and the sixth best-selling game on the platform overall.

Barrington disclosed the plot to the captain, and the latter, on reaching New South Wales, reported him favourably to the authorities, with the result that in 1792 Barrington obtained a warrant of emancipation ( the first issued ), becoming subsequently superintendent of convicts and later high constable of Parramatta.

Opposition supporters saw the result as a plot by Kibaki's Kikuyu tribe, Kenya's largest, to keep power by any means. Feeling cheated and extremely bitter, and also fueled by other long standing perceived grievances, the tribes that lost the election could not contemplate five years without political power and anti-Kikuyu sentiment swelled.

The inclusion of the hula hoop came as a result of a plot device.

Upset, Ravana shook it vigorously and as a result, Parvati got scared and hugged Shiva.

Instead of asking how a man's actions and experiences result from what he saw, remembered, or believed, the dynamic psychologist asks how they follow from the subject's goals, needs, or instincts.

As a result, when the Culture asks Sleeper Service to help in dealing with the threat of war, the ship demands that in return Genar-Hofoen must be handed over to it.

When Tenar asks him about the scar on his face, caused by the Shadow creature that he unleashed, he replies that it is the result of his foolishness in the past-his ambition has been tempered with experience.

There, Control asks Leamas to stay " in the cold " for one last mission: to turn ( defect ) and provide false information to the East German Communists that would implicate Mundt as a British double agent — what his second-in-command, Fiedler, already suspects — to result in Mundt being executed by his own people.

Habad commentary asks about this the question of why a new Heavenly accusation would have arisen against Rabbi Schneur Zalman himself, and result in his incarceration in St. Petersburg.

She asks Siuan for a penance as a result of this.

Hence the central provision under EU law asks whether a concentration would if it went ahead " significantly impede effective competition ... in particular as a result of the creation or strengthening of a dominant position ..."

This asks the implementation to evaluate the expression for its side-effects only, and disregard the result of the expression.

Bob remains oblivious to Leo ’ s hostility, and Fay explains that Leo has been acting unacceptably as a result of an inexplicable grudge against Bob, and she reluctantly asks him to leave ; Bob sadly agrees.

In turn, organizationally speaking, slacktivism may result in a “ waste of resources, lack of productivity and a risk of liability for the employer .” An NPR piece from 2009 also astutely asks whether " the publicity gains gained through this greater reliance on new media worth the organizational losses that traditional activists entities are likely to suffer, as ordinary people would begin to turn away from conventional ( and proven ) forms of activism.

In the result, Prime Minister Lee caused special legislation to be passed depriving the Law Society of any powers to comment on any legislation unless the government specifically asks the Law Society for its comments.

As a result, Alan decides to return to work and asks Charlie to teach him some new computer skills.

The Millennium Trail is by far the longest and most challenging ; as a result Bernheim asks that hikers set out before certain times in the morning ( the deadline varies by season ), as well as register at the visitor's center prior to starting the hike.

In pure object or Actor languages this problem can be solved by sending < tt > future factorial ( 100000 )</ tt > the message < tt >+</ tt >, which asks the future to add < tt > 3 </ tt > to itself and return the result.

Forced by his parents to let numerous younger siblings and cousins ride his motorcycle, which is beginning to wear out due to their careless treatment and also worried that their droppings on the floor will result in anti-mouse retaliation by the hotel staff, he asks Ryan to take him to school, where he plans to hide and live out the rest of his life.

As a result, Bilodeau asks Doucet to kill him, but Doucet refuses.

Carly, having vowed to distance herself and her family from Sonny, approaches Alexis and asks her for help in keeping their children away from Sonny, but Alexis, openly skeptical that Carly is ready to give up being Sonny's enabler, flatly refuses to help her, reminding her of Kristina's rebellion and car-bomb injuries the year before as a direct result of her trying to keep Kristina and Sonny apart, and subsequently gives Carly a verbal scalding, telling her that what happened to Jax is just as much her fault as Sonny's because she riled Sonny up and set him on Jax in the first place.

As a result, he was sent to a hospital in Arizona until his health improved enough for him to come back to Washington to work in the Government service.

The result was that I found myself in the ridiculous position of having made a formal engagement by letter for the next week, only two days before my departure from London.

But the jurisdictional disputes that result from the craft-industrial rivalry do not win friends for labor.

In the first place, a large part of the discrepancy between President Eisenhower's estimate of a 1.5 billion dollar surplus for the same period and the new estimate of an almost seven billion dollar deficit is the result of the outgoing President's farewell gift of a political booby-trap to his successor.

It stipulates, in addition, that all amounts remaining as a result of imposing the `` ceiling '', and not used for insuring the `` floor '', be redistributed to those States still below their maximums.

( Multiply the result obtained in item 3 above by the result obtained for each State in item 1 above.

( Multiply the result obtained in item 3 above by the amount used for each State in item 1 above.

The Government of India agrees that it will take all possible measures to prevent the resale or transshipment to other countries or the use for other than domestic purposes ( except where such resale, transshipment or use is specifically approved by the Government of the United States of America ), of the surplus agricultural commodities purchased pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, and to assure that the purchase of such commodities does not result in increased availability of these or like commodities for export from India.

The engineering provides exactly the support needed for such a result.

As with the penultimate Giselle release ( Wolff's abridgment for RCA Victor ) I find the cleaner, less razor-edged monophonic version, for all its lack of big-stage spaciousness, the more aurally tolerable -- but this may be the result of processing defects in my SD copies.

Although we are still far from a complete understanding of these problems, as a first approximation, it is suggested that alterations in the hypothalamic balance with consequent changes in the hypothalamic-cortical discharges account for major changes in behavior seen in various moods and states of emotions in man and beast under physiological circumstances, in experimental and clinical neurosis, and as the result of psychopharmacological agents.

Omission of a subordinator pronoun, however, does not result in an increase in stress on a prepositional adverb for which the subordinator pronoun would be object.

If, as I suspect, the problem is largely of the second sort, then development of a theory better able to handle tone will result automatically in better theory for all phonologic subsystems.

However, to the extent that the monetary authorities, in their effort to ease credit in the next several months, conduct their open market operations in longer-term Government bonds, they will certainly act to accentuate any tendency for long-term interest rates to ease as a result of market forces.

Justices Frankfurter and Jackson concurred in the Court's result, for they found no merit in the railroad's claim.

The action was a result of a court order, the citation for which ( and for other court action mentioned in this paper ) is taken from the Summary Report for this Conference.

If this threefold division of costs were to have its counterpart in the actual rates of charge for service, as it actually does have in some rates, there would result a three-part rate for any one class of service.

The result, coupled with the salesmanship for which American industry is famous, is considerable expenditure of funds and efforts in marginal areas.

The gallium / germanium ratio is higher than that for ordinary igneous, metamorphic, or sedimentary matter as a result of selective volatilization of the components of the tektite.