The mob burnt down shops and even outlets selling milk allegedly in connivance with the police. From Wordnik.com. [Global Voices in English » Indian Elections ‘09: Where The Shoe Pinches] Reference
It would be absurd to attribute any political meaning to the incident, or to suppose that it had any connivance from the French Government. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02] Reference
The same kind of connivance was practised to the advantage of other branches of the opposition. From Wordnik.com. [Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2)] Reference
Sivapalan had got his boarding pass before he was detained, indicating some kind of connivance with airline staff. From Wordnik.com. [Daily News & Analysis] Reference
François Bayrou, the head of the centrist Modem party, said there was a "connivance" between Mr Sarkozy and big media barons. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Why not unravel this web of connivance with dispatch?. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
Austria, with Germany's connivance, appropriated Bosnia and. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference
Angus escaped from prison with the connivance of the authorities. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series] Reference
Devonshire for connivance in her lover's escape from Winchester Gaol. From Wordnik.com. [Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791] Reference
Piemontaise provinces of the duchy with the connivance of its ruler the. From Wordnik.com. [The Counts of Gruyère] Reference
The alleged assassinations by the command or connivance of Mohammad 60-76. From Wordnik.com. [A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád' Showing that all the Wars of Mohammad Were Defensive; and that Aggressive War, or Compulsory Conversion, is not Allowed in The Koran - 1885] Reference
Ever since the memorable occasion when, with the dressmaker's connivance, she had startled. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
His other novels are there too -- with the willing connivance of his commercial publisher. From Wordnik.com. [The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind] Reference
"Multiple voting" would require the connivance of all five poll commissioners in a precinct. From Wordnik.com. [Bayou Brawl] Reference
Detectives were watching her, and they, with the connivance of my father, took them from her. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
Marshal Soult with connivance in Gisquet's scandalous frauds brought upon you fine and imprisonment. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
This wretched victim of parental greed and criminal connivance could only excite most profound pity. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
Drouet had succeeded in making his escape, according to Barras, with the connivance of the Directory. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
They conjure up crippling tax raids and steal whole businesses with the connivance of local authorities. From Wordnik.com. [Russia’s Tragic Hero] Reference
They suspected the takings were going straight to the Provisional IRA's coffers, with the priest's connivance. From Wordnik.com. [Claudy bombings: Father Chesney, the 'Provo Priest'] Reference
Tannegui de Chastel, in the presence, and probably with the connivance of the Dauphin, afterwards Charles VII. From Wordnik.com. [Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819] Reference
And we would have had those things before 1997, with Britain's connivance and Britain's imprimatur, Britain's chop. From Wordnik.com. ['This Is A City In Its Prime'] Reference
Government to secure the papers of Lord Sunderland, was extreme, and affords a collateral proof of this connivance. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference
Sir Charles inquires at the house and hears the whole story, Paul's connivance in this abducting scheme will seem clear. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
It was through the connivance of England that Italy weakly found herself forced to enter the war against her former allies. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference
You are well aware that without extensive and long-continued connivance on the part of sympathizers among the leading people of. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
He enters the world without his own consent, and without his own connivance he is assigned a place in a social state of some sort. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
With Mrs. Fletcher's connivance, he took Mildred home alone in a canoe, by the deep and devious stream which runs under Wytham woods. From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
The position of affairs was one of increasing gravity owing to the connivance of the American authorities and the powerlessness of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Dominion in 1983] Reference
However the fact may be, the Emperor's feeling to disclaim all tyranny or connivance at tyranny, is praiseworthy; but a well-wisher to. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference
How was it possible that without the connivance of the peasants the insurgents should pass to and fro, or lie hidden in woods and fields?. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Canada, and with her recovered prestige was enabled to remonstrate forcibly with the Washington Government concerning American connivance. From Wordnik.com. [The Dominion in 1983] Reference
Our inheritance is fixed for us without our connivance in the matter; accident determines in which social environment we happen to be born. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Quilty, with Dolly's connivance, follows Humbert and Dolly's car, keeping in touch with her by surreptitious phone calls and furtive meetings. From Wordnik.com. [Lolita At 50, And Forever Young] Reference
Shoes, cloth, even arms -- manufactured under the very noses of northern detectives and, possibly, with their connivance -- found ever-ready sale. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
And they lived and robbed with the connivance or open support of the petty chiefs and landholders, to whom they gave a liberal share of their booty. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
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