cabal

• Perhaps soon we might even be referred to as a cabal! —  Progressive Bloggers
• Yes, my fellow Canadians, that is why Stephen Harper with ONLY a minority government, has been able to easily pursue North American Union, with what Mr. Lou Dobbs has referred to as a cabal at the CFR. —  Infowars
• Everything else on earth is subordinated to the thing--cabal, reform, propaganda, crusade, movement or what not--in which she is interested. —  'Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are!'
• Day after day they hesitated, and doubted, and lingered, expecting that other counsels would take place; and were slow to be persuaded, that all which had been done by the cabal was the effect not of humor, but of system. —  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12)
• So Washington wrote to Gordon as the cabal was coming to an end, and in that spirit he crushed silently and thoroughly the faction that sought to thwart his purpose, and drive him from office by sneers, slights, and intrigues These attacks upon him came at the darkest moment of his military career. —  George Washington, Volume I

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