connivance

How To Use connivance In A Sentence

• All this could not be possible without the illegal influence of concerned officials and without active connivance of higher-ups.
• Although the officials don't admit but the sources reveal that artificial water scarcity is created by the vested interests in connivance with those at the helm of affairs to promote the sale of mineral water.
• The complaints of over-charging by the contractors in connivance with the municipal officials and police have been brought to the notice of the authorities but so far no action has been taken.
• The culmination of this is the present unfolding catastrophe, which required the moral connivance, in one way or another, of nearly every sector of civil society.
• The mob burnt down shops and even outlets selling milk allegedly in connivance with the police Global Voices in English » Indian Elections ‘09: Where The Shoe Pinches
• The naïve values I was raised on - and passed down to my kids, seem less and less relevant in a world of connivance, double dealings, double crossings and double entendres.
• Tax evaders continue to dodge the government in connivance with the taxmen.
• With Gunther's connivance, she and Belfrage met again at a gala performance of The Magic Flute, given in aid of African Famine Relief. THE ENDLESS GAME
• You may tell me, if you like, that I am a _pandour_, and that my taste has been perverted by a life of unbridled Epicureanism; you may tell me that the charms of duplicity, of falsehood, and of this connivance in the guise of a childish deception, are exercising a morbid fascination over my demoralized heart. French and Oriental Love in a Harem
• It could even lead to opaque credit allocation practices and connivance between business and political circles, bringing opportunities to the wrong people.