Brenda was tempted to connive her way out of the argument with her mother. From LearnThat.org.
Not sure what you mean by 'connive' as we have not been in government when these decisions were taken. From Wordnik.com. [Rats jumping ship] Reference
You, as commandant, must not connive with me at that. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
You connived for them, did you not, and still connive?. From Wordnik.com. [Heartless]
'She to connive and contrive! fit mother for such a son. From Wordnik.com. [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference
Will the preacher of righteousness connive at wickedness?. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches of the Covenanters] Reference
Gabinius and persuaded him to connive at his restoration. From Wordnik.com. [Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44).] Reference
And if you did not connive at her death, then where is she now?. From Wordnik.com. [An Excellent Mystery]
But this is something many in the media connive never to talk about. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Heaven connive to put upon the tongues of confidantes and attendants?. From Wordnik.com. [Balcony Stories] Reference
If they plot and connive and resist, they will suffer what they deserve. From Wordnik.com. [Counting Up, Counting Down]
"Was it part of that debt to send your nephew to connive with my daughter?". From Wordnik.com. [The English Witch]
They would never connive at this second sowing of the dragon's teeth of Cadmus. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844] Reference
Parents, through their misguided sympathy, often connive at filial disobedience. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Home] Reference
What then do we suppose would take place if he should always connive at transgression?. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2] Reference
A small bribe would tempt the average blockade-running sailor to connive at this means of escape. From Wordnik.com. [The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner] Reference
They'll roll out a new show called "Mitt Men" in which pomaded businessmen connive to gain power. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central | Talking Points Memo | New Romney Ad Bashes Hillary ��� And Uses Fox Debate Footage!] Reference
That young stripling has cost me more lives than he numbers years; and though I could not connive at. From Wordnik.com. [The Truce of God A Tale of the Eleventh Century] Reference
Then, turning upon Albert, he cried: 'And for you, who pretend to love her, to connive at his guilt!. From Wordnik.com. [The Truce of God A Tale of the Eleventh Century] Reference
Republicans connive, lie and cheat and Dems are outraged, feckless and gutless -- so what else is new?. From Wordnik.com. [Harry Reid Rips Washington Post Editors As "War Cheerleaders" Unconcerned About Facts] Reference
"The government is in a position to give us a Volkstaat, I don't know why they must connive with the ANC/SACP alliance," said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
All of those youthful chess lessons will pay off as you connive your way to successful one-uppsmanship against your feeble Enemy. From Wordnik.com. [Lesley M. M. Blume: The Joyous Benefits of Having an Enemy] Reference
South Africa keep silent about tyrannies elsewhere they connive in evil, and make the liberation of Southern Africa more difficult. From Wordnik.com. [1. The Work of IDAF] Reference
I am disgusted that she was willing to connive with McCain to use a leak from Stephen Harper's Canadian government to damage Obama. From Wordnik.com. [Brazile: Howard Dean And Other Party Leaders Should Be Prepared To Step In] Reference
Under the cloak of a pretended neutrality, the ministry have had opportunity to watch the course of events, to connive at aid to the. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864] Reference
The two friends concert a plan with the priestess to throw the young people in each other's way and to connive at a secret marriage. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from the Hindu Dramatists] Reference
Was she not a past master of the connive, being just over one hundred years old, yet still in outward appearance seeming no more than. From Wordnik.com. [Si'Wren of the Patriarchs] Reference
Hillieberman McMonster is going to have to come up with some other way to connive the non-Lieberdem half of the party back to her clutches. From Wordnik.com. [Bill Clinton: Hillary-Obama Ticket Would Be "Almost Unstoppable Force"] Reference
'Oh.' said he, 'ye're a' tarred wi 'the ae stick: if ye connive at his comin' here without my kennin ', I'll gie him death wi' his boots on! '. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
The ANC PWV Region cannot and will not afford to bow to the pressure of racist pressures to connive with such racist motivated forced removals. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
"The ANC PWV Region cannot and will not afford to bow to the pressure of racist pressures to connive with such racist motivated forced removals.". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
But they delude themselves aplenty - and they continue to connive to delude everyone else, aided and abetted by their ghastly comrades in the BBC. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference
The liberalists of England and elsewhere have been sedulously avoided; not so those who would connive to bring Democratic government into disrepute. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862] Reference
Take heed, therefore, that you do not connive at the sins of your people, under pretense of love, for that were to cross the nature and end of love. From Wordnik.com. [The Reformed Pastor] Reference
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