connivance

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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.

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “The same kind of connivance was practised to the advantage of other branches of the opposition.”

  Diderot and the Encyclopaedists

• “He told the same story to Swift, speaking of the "connivance" of his noble friend, and adding that, though he did not himself "much approve" of the publication, he was not ashamed of it.”

  Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series

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