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
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  • 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.
  • The other difference was that for the first time the inaction, connivance and bias of the police were all on display on television screens in every Indian homes.
  • Contractors in connivance with corrupt officials do shoddy work deliberately, so that they get a fresh contract soon for the job.
  • The crime was committed with the connivance of a police officer.
  • Yet, it is necessary to outlive the inhuman experience of this attempt at genocide with the collaboration and connivance of the state and come to grips with its implications for the future of the Republic.
  • Indeed, given the two main parties' history of self-serving connivance in this perversion of democracy, is it any wonder that increasing numbers of voters feel alienated by politicians?
  • Some of the codes will unfold with merely adept connivance, others will swim vigorously into and by circulation inside their own medium.
  • If they fail to control the situation within three days they should be suspended and, if found guilty of connivance or actual participation, they should be strictly dealt with for the crime.
  • Who the fuck do you think got that $18 billion in bonuses from the taxpayer – with the connivance of these same politicians? Matthew Yglesias » Stimulus in Trouble?
  • A close scrutiny of these dubious transactions will reveal that there is connivance between unscrupulous employees and these ‘ghost’ suppliers.
  • I must here declare freely -- in order that I may not be suspected of secret connivance, which is foreign to my nature -- that M. Leroux has my full sympathy. What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.
  • Consent and connivance largely overlap with aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring, but they may be easier to prove.
  • What this sardonic study of mutual fawning and posturing among the talking heads and editorial sages of Parisian society shows is a system of connivance based at least as much on ideological as material investment in the market.
  • The last clause in the addendum was a beauty: the company could discharge Swanson for any reason if “at any time in the future, through no fault of Famous Players-Lasky and/or without its connivance and consent, first party shall be charged with adulterous conduct or immoral relations with men other than her husband, and such charges or any of them are published in the public press, the waiver herein contained shall be null and void and of no force and effect.” Empire of Dreams
  • It is obvious that a large proportion of the forest area is in the possession of encroachers in connivance with real estate agents, politicians and government officials.
  • The goods were exported with official connivance.
  • As to connivance arisen from excessive the author suggests that It'should be the scientific assessment.
  • It would be absurd to attribute any political meaning to the incident, or to suppose that it had any connivance from the French Government. Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02
  • Against such a background of general connivance and betrayal, the few - very few - acts of genuine resistance stand out.
  • What attracted Von Eschl's attention was the fact that it was always the same barn, which led him to believe that there was some kind of connivance going on between the count and the partisans. Poland
  • It was allegedly cooked up by a powerful personality who had to face a disgraceful exit from one of the Tata companies, in connivance with a chief political figure of that time.
  • It is probable that the Count was in connivance with them about all this, but anybody was surely little acquainted with me who did not know that I was too busy with my art to give any time to politics, even if I had not always felt an aversion to everything smacking of intrigue. Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun
  • Contractors in connivance with corrupt officials do shoddy work deliberately, so that they get a fresh contract soon for the job.
  • The removal of safety devices to speed up production, for instance, is often done with the tacit connivance of supervisors.
  • However, a silence was ill-timed, and though not so designed, might be deemed by some a kind of connivance; for a rising heresy seeks to carry on its work under ground without noise: it is a fire which spreads itself under cover. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
  • During the years the institution has been in the red with its liabilities mounting up and funds and resources swindled by those at its helm in connivance with the bureaucracy and some politicians.
  • Business as usual, say the Barzonistas, involves illegal and immoral acts: political corruption on the part of the government resulting in misappropriation of needed government aid, usury on the part of the banks, and connivance between the two to confiscate land and property from debtors victimized by the corruption and the usury, and consolidate it in the hands of the wealthy. Take this debt and shove it
  • To permit such falsifications to pass unnoticed and unchallenged is a species of connivance at error; for, to quote a maxim which is recognized alike in morals and in law, _Qui tacet consentire videtur: _ "Silence gives consent. The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886
  • 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
  • Further, far from finding myself compelled "to disregard or dismiss evidence of connivance by some British agencies or individuals in Cetnik collaboration with the Axis," I take care to note that the Cetniks as well as the Titoists ” with whom we also "connived" ” made tactical deals with the Axis. Yugoslavia & the British
  • Contractors in connivance with corrupt officials do shoddy work deliberately, so that they get a fresh contract soon for the job.
  • That the eight-hour day is now under attack testifies both to the ferocity of the present big business offensive, and to the impotence and connivance of the trade unions and social democrats.
  • By five o'clock, Mrs Grundy has managed, with the connivance of Jack the driver, somehow or other to boil the kettle, and a cup of tea is ready for all who are inclined to partake. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 441 Volume 17, New Series, June 12, 1852
  • The crime was committed with the connivance of a police officer.
  • The deficit had grown with the connivance of the banks.
  • Jewish law discerns three different levels of connivance with wrongdoing.
  • So with Abramov's permission and connivance a party was arranged. A SONG AT TWILIGHT
  • Yet, it is necessary to outlive the inhuman experience of this attempt at genocide with the collaboration and connivance of the state and come to grips with its implications for the future of the Republic.
  • How long can we be expected to give our blessings to the connivance which is obviously directed at obliterating the Zulu nation, both politically and physically from the South African map. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • This is also opened to abuse with the busiest car crime con being accident faking to in connivance or another innocent driver to get these big pay-offs.

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