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• Tribal Folk Oppose Laiban Dam Project, Slams 'Connivance' Between MWSS, San Miguel
Bulatlat Marya Salamat 2010
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Connivance, collusion, condonation, recrimination, and other defences are not even mentioned therein.
The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886 Various
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"Connivance is a thing secret and concealed, and shuns all outward signs."
Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Paine accuses the President of Connivance at his Imprisonment in
Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 4 December 1796 1796
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Connivance is a relaxation from slavery, not a definition of liberty.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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The Projectors of the many various private Banks for Currency, seem to presume too much upon the Indulgence or Connivance or our
A Discourse Concerning the Currencies of the British Plantations in America 1739
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Commerce and that Wealth and Power which attend it may be either absolutely in the Power of a State, or Empire, consider'd in and by itself, without Regard to it's Neighbours, which I call natural Wealth, Power and Commerce; or they may depend upon Treaties with other States, or be owing to their Connivance, which pro tempore amount to a tacit Agreement; these latter Species I call Technical Wealth, &c.
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But here the Love of his Wife was a check upon the Husband, not without a little suspicion of Connivance.
Pliny's Epistles in Ten Books: Volume 1, Books 1-6 Pliny 1723
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I am a Virgin, and in no Case despicable; but yet such as I am I must remain, or else become, tis to be feared, less happy: for I find not the least good Effect from the just Correction you some time since gave, that too free, that looser Part of our Sex which spoils the Men; the same Connivance at the Vices, the same easie Admittance of
The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700
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Workmanship, and Mr. _Pitt_ and his Officers very readily Conducted them up Stairs, that the World might be convinc'd there was not the least room to suspect, either a Negligence, or Connivance in the Servants.
The History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard Containing a Particular Account of His Many Robberies and Escapes Daniel Defoe 1696
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