How To Use Accomplice In A Sentence
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Burke's execution was witnessed by the novelist Sir Walter Scott, who sympathized with the general opinion that both men's wives had served as accomplices, and that the anatomists had been accessories to the murders.
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To fix a passage of play, you need the captain and a willing accomplice or two.
Times, Sunday Times
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Anyone who has once taken up the WORD can never again evade it; a writer is not the detached judge of his compatriots and contemporaries, he is an accomplice to all the evil committed in his native land or by his countrymen.
Alexandr Solzhenitsyn - Nobel Lecture
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His accomplice is white, 5ft 11 in, tubby or of large build, but not as big as the first suspect.
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Thomas and his accomplices empty the bags, which end of being full of rats, in the hallway of a low-rent apartment building.
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What your really trying to accomplice is to scare others off that might be interested in finding out more about us.
Sound Politics: Mitt Romney for President: Part I, the Competition
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And bids can be destroyed or go unrecorded so that a low bid from an agent's accomplice wins, to the detriment of the seller.
Times, Sunday Times
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We refer to the rules which oblige a trial judge to warn the jury of the danger of convicting upon the uncorroborated evidence of an accomplice.
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This had the interesting side effect of causing his vocal accomplice to fall temporarily silent.
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I guess that was your accomplice in the wood chipper?
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The programme which was intended to allow accomplices in serious crimes to turn supergrasses and give evidence in order to secure convictions was first introduced in 1997 in the wake of the Guerin murder.
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Cops have been given more time to quiz alleged accomplices after raids last week in West London.
The Sun
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As plans took form in her mind, she realized the need for an accomplice.
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He and an accomplice had brandished an unloaded gun, but nobody was hurt.
Times, Sunday Times
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Police said last night that the intruder may have been working with an accomplice who waited outside the flat.
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The gunman and his accomplices then got back in the vehicle and drove off down Milkstone Road.
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He would then in return at a later date with at least one accomplice -- in at least some cases believed to have been Gary or Shaheed -- and a large amount of counterfeit coins encased in an intricate wrapping, Bianchi said.
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It is evidence directly probative of the fact that they were accomplices.
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If she goes anywhere in what you call rendering criminal assistance, which is an accomplice after the fact -- money, food, shelter, anything that would allow him to keep on the run and away from the authorities would be rendering criminal assistance to him by the wife.
CNN Transcript Apr 11, 2008
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Her cinematic aquacades have held a place in the canon of camp since their release, not least because of the influence of her willing accomplice, a legendary choreographer.
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The killer then sped off on the pillion seat of a motorbike and, with his accomplice, drove to a quiet neighbourhood and burned the bike in an obviously pre-identified secluded location.
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I use the term phrases because these parties themselves do not believe seriously in the possibility of carrying out their intentions, and because in the second place they themselves are the accomplices mainly responsible for the present development.
Mein Kampf
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The accomplice of a gunman who shot a man dead in a pub may be in fear for his life, police said.
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He attacked the credibility of alleged accomplices who had turned state witness, saying there was little doubt that they had lied without compunction.
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Should the rebellion succeed, as he professes to believe it will, his instrument and accomplice, Maximilian, will be discarded with as little ceremony as the first Napoleon discarded some of the puppet kings whom he saw proper to crown and discrown according to the exigency of his occasions.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864
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He refused point-blank to identify his accomplices.
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The man was a fool, and a very extraordinary arsonite, to have an accomplice at all.
Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Volume 1
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Did they have an accomplice who met them in the jetway?
The Wall Street Journal Editorial Page: Sept. 12, 2001
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How does Mr Chre tien reconcile his role as accomplice to President Bush's short-sighted and irresponsible energy agenda?
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At Cambridge he was always the centre of a circle of friends, willing accomplices in his endless schemes and parties.
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Some palm readers might go through a client's purse or have an accomplice do so, in order to garner information about the client.
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A suspected accomplice is now receiving the same treatment.
Times, Sunday Times
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It follows that awareness that one of D's confederates might commit murder is sufficient to convict D as an accomplice, with a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment.
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I reckon anyone who can hide in a drawer without the aid of an accomplice is so ingenious they deserve not to be caught.
Shannon Matthews « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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The frantic denouncer of simony had himself become a simonist; the indignant opponent of Antoninus had become his secret accomplice; the accuser of misprision had accepted an enormous bribe as the guerdon of misprision.
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom
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Three accomplices escaped and police fear they may try the same scam again.
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Five suspected accomplices have been arrested.
The Sun
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I was certainly not the first to be pranked this way - there are a slew of cases of angry pharmacists, disgruntled neighbors, and scorned ex-boyfriends using sites like Craigslist to recruit unwitting accomplices in their acts of revenge - I coined the term "crowdsourcing revenge" to describe the practice.
Forbes.com: News
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I was likewise whelmed with the guilt of an accomplice.
The Minions of Midas
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The accomplice who sneaked in is believed to be around 30 and scruffily dressed.
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It is true that accomplices are normally less blameworthy than principals and therefore deserve less severe sentences.
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At the request of Mr Leesong trespass orders have been served on the assailant and her accomplice.
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He decided to make a citizen's arrest but she struggled free with the help of two women accomplices.
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But I can't help seeing that unless one of the accomplices confesses, which is highly unlikely, it will be next to impossible to bring it home to him.
The Path to Honour
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On August 7, 1974, French funambulist Petit, then 24, performed an astonishing high-wire act on a cable that he and his accomplices had surreptitiously rigged between the north and south towers of the World Trade Center.
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Even worse for many family members is the feeling that they acted as unknowing accomplices to the U.S. government.
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Corruption like all other vices is a moral issue and we feel that the public can avoid being accomplices if they are morally upright.
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Then Jacob Weisberg, chairman and editor-in-chief of the Slate Group, agreed with Friedman's contention that there should be no torture prosecutions because we had all "acquiesced" in the Bush-Cheney Torture Agenda; we were all "the President's accomplices," and thus "pursuing criminal charges would be too hard legally and politically and too easy morally.
Rory O'Connor: Media Torture
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Two accomplices "clamped" the TV to the man before helping him walk out of the store.
G4TV - The Feed
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The car-jacker fled in the Honda Civic while an accomplice followed in the other car in the direction of Sutton.
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I've profiled a lot of fugitives that have had female accomplices and accessories.
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The owner of the Valle Grande Country House, Ernano Barretta, 63, is in jail in Italy; his accomplice, gigolo par excellence Helg Sgarbi, 41, was arrested in Austria and is in prison in Germany facing trial for extortion.
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His whole behavior gives color to the supposition that he was the accomplice of a pretended death.
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It's a business grown dependent on lawbreakers and accomplices with little interference from authorities.
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But the number of the accomplices (correi) in such a deed might happen to be so great that the state, in resolving to be without such criminals, would be in danger of soon also being deprived of subjects.
The Science of Right
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One man vaulted the security screen and threatened female members of staff while his accomplices made around six customers lie on the floor.
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The gunman's accomplice carried on with the raid, smashing a glass security shield and taking cash.
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He and an alleged accomplice were charged with murder.
Times, Sunday Times
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A third factor that has made Lopez an accomplice to the defilement of the Peten is the need for energy.
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She stood wilfully swaying a branch of the tendrilled arbor, and, he subtly felt, so dissatisfied with herself for her temporary disloyalty that she felt alien to them both: Marshby because she had wronged him by admitting another man to this intimate knowledge of him, and the other man for being her accomplice.
Different Girls
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The historical adviser is there not to ensure verisimilitude, but to be an accomplice in furthering the aims of the producer.
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Detectives were last night reviewing CCTV footage from cameras in the shopping precinct, in the hope that the killer and his accomplice have been captured on tape.
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His grandstanding has increased suspicions that England have become unwitting accomplices to the ego trip of an eccentric billionaire.
Times, Sunday Times
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He and his gang of accomplices adopted disguises.
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The historical adviser is there not to ensure verisimilitude, but to be an accomplice in furthering the aims of the producer.
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In the ensuing gun battle one militant was shot dead while his accomplice managed to slip into the other side.
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The existence of one - side accomplice is an issue heatedly discussed in theory field of Criminal Law.
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Police said last night that the intruder may have been working with an accomplice who waited outside the flat.
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His accomplice tried unsuccessfully to open the till at the off-licence and grocery shop in Wood Green, north London.
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The epigram to The Second Sex is: half accomplices, half victims like every one else.
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Sarcastic cameos of barking Tory predators and their yelping spouses indicate his accomplices in this enterprise.
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They forget that keeping silent in the face of injustice makes them accomplices of the criminals.
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Since the accomplice have the direct relation mutually, the probative force of their oral confession is weak and need to be further corroborated.
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Police said they were looking for two accomplices filmed on security cameras.
Times, Sunday Times
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That gave the police the names of three apparent accomplices and the address of a fourth.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sarcastic cameos of barking Tory predators and their yelping spouses indicate his accomplices in this enterprise.
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Belgian police said they had found a cache of weapons during a raid on one of his suspected accomplices on Friday.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jerusalem, as search is made for a malefactor in disguise, that is harboured by his accomplices.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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The accomplice to cynical, self-interested Western governments here are TV networks, who crave conflict to boost ratings.
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He had millions of willing accomplices.
Times, Sunday Times
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Three alleged accomplices are on trial alongside him in their absence.
The Sun
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But the Digger becomes a far more sinister threat when his accomplice is killed in a freak accident while en route to the money drop.
The Devil's Teardrop: Summary and book reviews of The Devil's Teardrop by Jeffery Deaver.
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When there were two accomplices, compliance jumped to 67%, even though the acco mplices didn't discuss their actions or make eye contact with other students.
The Secret to Turning Consumers Green
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Hearst was an accomplice; by law, her uncorroborated testimony was not enough on which to build a case.
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If, therefore, the testimony of an accomplice is necessary, he should not be tried jointly with those against whom he is expected to testify.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10214
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He would build his own dens from what was available or send his female accomplice out to look for empty animal lairs.
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He went for help, using his stairlift to go downstairs, and unwittingly called on the help of the thief's two accomplices.
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The teenager was forced to hand over his phone to the first offender while his accomplice ripped a gold chain from his neck.
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His conversations were recorded, and transcripts were read to a court in Brussels trying his alleged accomplices this week.
Times, Sunday Times
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And since that time, we've seen the gradual accretion of confidence in intervention in the cause of human rights, plus a fairly impressive armory of techniques and accomplices.
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They are accused as accomplices in many other heinous and facinorous deeds, with the assassin Andrade.
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Please subdue your unliberated accomplice and bring him to the Correctional Facility for immediate Liberation at this time!
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If we do not speak out and act to stop the brutish behaviour of our Government, then we become accomplices to its wrongdoings.
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A cast of characters - including two photogenic victims, the heartbroken families, the detectives and, most oddly, the killer and his accomplice - had been introduced as they are in every Miss Marple.
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Unwilling Accomplice is the story of two violent criminals on the run and the tough young woman who outwits them.
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The man carrying the knife was much shorter than his accomplice and was described as chubby with a red face.
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While his accomplices forged orders from local merchants, he picked up goods, paid-off draymen and fenced the merchandise in the city's black market.
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The "tosser" has one or two accomplices who win the first money to excite the crowd or again to increase their waning energy.
Six Months in Mexico
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I think that she emptied all the cupboards during her little midnight snack, and she had an accomplice.
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` ` Mrs. Inglethorp is out, and he sits down to write to his accomplice, who, he fears, may be in a panic at the nonsuccess of their plan.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
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Public indifference is the accomplice of the corrupt.
Times, Sunday Times
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Investigators released a photo of a suspected male accomplice.
The Sun
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Some speculate that side kicks, two words, was a phrase derived from the outside pockets of an overcoat; in underworld slang, it referred to an accomplice.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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That case followed the abolition of the requirement of a warning about convicting a person on the uncorroborated evidence of an accomplice or of the victim of an alleged sexual offence.
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On such occasions, Vittore's accomplices were in waiting; and the unsuspecting stranger -- pillaged and alarmed, would return to the vettura penniless.
A Love Story
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His accomplice was white, 5ft 9in, of slim build and in his 20s.
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Police today joined the appeal for the public's help in tracing the serial arsonist, who is believed to have an accomplice.
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His accomplices were white and wearing baggy clothing.
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Sir Hadrian now glowered at George as if the young man himself had been a willing and eager accomplice in the matter of the Tofts's failed cozenage.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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He went for help, using his stairlift to go downstairs, and unwittingly called on the help of the thief's two accomplices.
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Count Borla is a murderer," I cried, "and as his accomplice and shielder you are a murderer too!
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
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This had the interesting side effect of causing his vocal accomplice to fall temporarily silent.
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William Hurt is a willing, low-key accomplice, a good foil for Kosminsky's gracious manner and slightly stagy cheerfulness.
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Yet we see precisely where his mind is looking, the places on which his concentration focuses: lapels, buttons, his accomplice's hand.
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He can't recall the man's story but clearly it was a pretext for his accomplice to search the house.
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Yesterday a man accused of setting up the international money laundering for the funds, and two alleged accomplices, denied being part of the plot.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was another accomplice who still hasn't been identified.
Times, Sunday Times
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In its report on Thursday's verdicts, state-run BNA carried links to government-produced videos posted on YouTube, including clips of purported confessions of alleged accomplices describing the policemen's killings.
Bahrain sentences 4 Shiites to death
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If cytotoxins have no ‘accomplice’ in the cell interior, chemotherapy is usually destined to fail - chemoresistance is the result.
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On formal occasions, he enlisted nimble-fingered accomplices.
Globe and Mail
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The chase ended with a crash as the car carrying the gunman and his accomplice left the road.
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He and an accomplice had brandished an unloaded gun, but nobody was hurt.
Times, Sunday Times
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The chief criminals shall be punished without fail, those who are accomplices under duress shall go unpunished and those who perform deeds of merit shall be rewarded.
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As she arrived at the appointed place, my hand slipped from hers, no longer her accomplice.
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It might well retard job creation, should it give rise to inflationary expectations or, worse, imply that, having suffered the slings and arrows of popular and political contempt as we went about doing what we did to save the financial system, we have now been compromised and become a pliant accomplice to Congress's and the executive branch's fiscal misfeasance.
Notable & Quotable
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But even an arm's-length dalliance with the right in states such as Oregon has given ammunition to opponents, who now portray him as a willing accomplice to the Bush / Cheney campaign.
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Soldiers were running in hordes to get out of the place, but Wolfe must have had accomplices - the walls were wreathed in sheets of flame taller than the guardhouses.
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The common factor in the above group of cases is that the result was unexpected by both principal and accomplice.
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His accomplices received probationary sentences.
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The suspect ran off, chased by the shop's staff, but escaped in a getaway car driven by an accomplice waiting outside the store.
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The man was unloading his car when an unknown assailant grabbed him while an accomplice pulled cash out of his trouser pocket.
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In total another four accomplices were given suspended sentences while six others were jailed for between 21 months and five years for various fraud charges.
The Sun
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Essie Davis plays Mrs Lovett, friend to Sweeney Todd, who becomes his accomplice in crime.
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Police said they were looking for two accomplices filmed on security cameras.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are accomplices of the dealer - a part of the swindle.
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Three alleged accomplices are being quizzed.
The Sun
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As a child, he runs wild with his father and acts as an accomplice during various house robberies.
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He is pressing for the five to be considered as unwitting accomplices to espionage, rather than conspirators.
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While it is true that Stalinism played a major role in the Chilean defeat, it is impossible to analyze it in isolation from the role of the centrists and revisionists who played the role of willing and unwilling accomplices to Stalinism.
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Subsequent interrogations of him and other accomplices revealed that a series of plots were being planned.
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Facing 25 years in jail, he transformed into a supergrass and implicated his accomplices in order to land himself a lighter sentence.
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One of Richardson's alleged accomplices, who was warded under police guard at the San Fernando General Hospital, was expected to face additional charges late yesterday.
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He and an accomplice had brandished an unloaded gun, but nobody was hurt.
Times, Sunday Times
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Complicity often involves the accomplice in words or deeds prior to the principal's crime.
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And by going along with it, all his guests were, to greater or lesser degrees, accomplices in the fraud.
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We are circulating information to all our districts, and are shortlisting all the suspect's relatives, accomplices and contacts.
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Two policemen, chasing a burglar on foot, left their car open and his accomplice stole it.
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Assembling a motley crew of accomplices, their poorly conceived plans would be laughable were they not so deadly and, ultimately, tragic.
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She was her husband's accomplice in murdering a rich old man.
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One man got away but had to escape on foot as his accomplice had the keys to the getaway car in his pocket.
Times, Sunday Times
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She's a snake charmer, a mambo rider, a serpent-wrangler and inchworm-eater and Cave is her willing accomplice.
Grinderman
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The gunman and his accomplices then got back in the vehicle and drove off down Milkstone Road.
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After a scouting trip to Mumbai in April 2008, Headley went to Chicago in May and told his accomplice about an evolving plan for seaborne gunmen to land in front of the Taj Mahal hotel, which he had scouted extensively, court documents show.
Before '08 Mumbai attacks, U.S. was warned key figure in plot had terror ties
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That a woman could be the perpetrator of such crimes even as an accomplice was almost too horrible to believe.
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He came with accomplices who wore gold tams and black capes; some carried handguns.
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Today, he and his accomplices are beginning to lose the legal immunity they granted themselves.
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I have heard the number ‘150,’ but we should think in terms of much larger numbers, including the additional witting and unwitting accomplices aiding and abetting the enemy.
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I had to admit, she was either one of the coolest grown-ups I had ever met, or one of the most clever of criminal accomplices.
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One man got away but had to escape on foot as his accomplice had the keys to the getaway car in his pocket.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ex-Army major, 41, of High Street, Easterton, used coughs from an accomplice to steer him to the correct answers.
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The woman then reportedly got into a car with a gunman and drove away - suggesting she was an accomplice to the murder.
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Whether he was heading here to see accomplices or simply fleeing we shall have to wait and see what the investigation discovers.
The Sun
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My accomplice is a woman and is far from the "kamikaze messenger" type, though she is accustomed to riding a bike with drop bars.
Archive 2009-06-01
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In another, the sufferer drinks several swallows of water while an accomplice presses on both ear flaps (technically called the tragus).
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The surviving robber can be charged with "felony murder" (and eligible for the death penalty) for the death of his accomplice who was shot to death by the bank guard.
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And the UK punters have been willing accomplices.
Times, Sunday Times
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When it comes to wishful thinking, the heart is a willing accomplice.
Times, Sunday Times
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One of the two accomplices attempted to spray an aerosol in her face before the gang fled empty-handed.
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Should he return to me," she thought in those paroxysms of delusion, "I would to _him_ unbosom all my guilt; and as a remote, a kind of unwary accomplice in my crime, his sense, his arguments, ever ready in making light of my sins, might afford a respite to my troubled conscience.
Nature and Art
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This is a reference to Satan and his accomplices who try to creep up in the skies to overhear divine commandments.
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It was at first suspected the right-wing fanatic had accomplices.
The Sun
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Watching Michael Caine struggle with whether or not his life (and the lives of his accomplices) was worth the loss of his booty, as their getaway bus teetered precariously on the edge, was enough to get audiences on the edge of the seat.
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His accomplice was arrested after a high-speed police chase.
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The historical adviser is there not to ensure verisimilitude, but to be an accomplice in furthering the aims of the producer.
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Of his accomplices, one was about 6ft tall and tubby, and wore shorts, a red checked shirt and sandals.
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The accomplice of a gunman who shot a man dead in a pub may be in fear for his life, police said.
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And people looking to anesthetize themselves are experts at finding accomplices to orchestrate a conspiracy of denial.
The 7
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He then fled with his lookout and another accomplice in a stolen car.
The Sun
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The chase ended with a crash as the car carrying the gunman and his accomplice left the road.
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The second mugger was black, taller than his accomplice and stocky wearing a bracelet on his wrist.
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At this point the forensic psychiatrist is invited to participate in a legally authorized execution, an act that makes doctors, at least metaphorically, into hangmen's accomplices.
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She was an accomplice; by law, her uncorroborated testimony was not enough on which to build a case.
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The court was told that defendant had been totally uncooperative in telling who his accomplices were or where the stolen property was.
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But subsequently, the accomplice palliated the situation by offering a token gift of candy a Life Saver, by generating sympathy with justification for his earlier aggressive behavior, or by asking for help with a humorous task.
The Bass Handbook of Leadership
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He had planned to be unloaded with the money and himself concealed in two express delivery boxes, which accomplices would have smuggled out of the airport.
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This data is then surreptitiously transmitted to crooks, allowing their young accomplices to later empty bank accounts.
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A varlet is a valet who has come down, and down, and down, and down again in the world, till, from once having been the servant and the trusty friend of the very best of masters, he has come to be the ally and accomplice of the very worst of masters.
Bunyan Characters (3rd Series)
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Whether an accomplice is described as an aider, abettor, counsellor, or procurer seems to depend partly on ordinary language, and partly on specific judicial decisions.
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Is she an accomplice in the murder or did she not even know her parents had been shot?
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His manner belied the seriousness of the potential charges against him as an accomplice to murder.
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Many a traitor hand now drew forth its dagger, and the intemperate Badenoch, drunk with choler and mad ambition, snatching a sword from one of his accomplices, made another violent plunge at Wallace, but its metal flew in splinters on the guard-stroke of the regent, and left Badenoch at his mercy.
The Scottish Chiefs
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The police in Amsterdam were able to round up six of his alleged accomplices after the crime, and are seeking more.
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Ineffective efforts to quench anger may be due to the fact that other emotions are fueling its fire, so ask questions about what lead up to the child's anger and investigate anger's accomplices.
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With his accomplices he then moved on to Jean and Adrian's bedroom where he found the safe and its key.
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One of his accomplices is shot, his wheelman flees with the getaway car, and Charlie races deeper into the bank, trying to evade cops and security guards.
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Wilson had repeatedly sent his younger accomplice into the victim's shop to spy out the land before launching his raid.
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In the Vedas, the maintainer of all is called Vishnu, and his Shakti (the female energy), his female accomplice, is Lakshmi—also known in English as Lady Luck (from lak).
Spiritual Teachings of the Avatar
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The arrest of a prosecutor as an accomplice has put a bizarre new twist on a sensational murder case in Nuremberg.
