connivance

How To Use connivance In A Sentence

• Mandela was convinced of security force "connivance", at least in the form of standing back and allowing violence that they could stop. ANC Daily News Briefing
• All this could not be possible without the illegal influence of concerned officials and without active connivance of higher-ups.
• 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.