conspire against something

conspire | American Dictionary

conspire
verb[ I ]
us/kənˈspɑɪər/
to plan secretly with other people to do something bad, illegal, or against someone’s wishes:
[ + to infinitive ]Moore conspired with Graham to rob the bank.
To conspire can also mean to make something happen that is difficult to do:
[ + to infinitive ]They somehow conspired to keep the theater alive when all government funding ended.

Examples of conspire

conspire
Theories of cognition and the experimental tasks used to test those theories often conspire hand in hand to overlook limited search and stopping rules.
These arguments conspire to place virtue beyond the jurisdiction of the law.
Moreover, growing inclination to question the state was accompanied by social tensions apparent in belief that elites were conspiring against the people through famine plots.
These two properties conspire to make nucleic acids relatively flexible and less likely to form extensive folded structures.
The effect of these infelicities conspire to make crucial points of his argument unclear and suggestive.
In effect, speakers and hearers will conspire for communicative reasons to ensure that functional and lexical items are phonologically distinctive.
It is imperative that transitional regimes do not conspire to 'forget' their violent past.
These processes conspire to produce output that is commensurate with what we will try to show is a parochially deviant system.
In the case of objects their informative status largely conspires with the syntactic requirement that they be expressed overtly.
It has proven difficult to establish a single responsible factor and it is probably the case that a number of factors conspire.
And these old southerners also conspired as a group to forestall any challenge to the southern segregation system, their obsessive interest.
Popular culture and scientific liberalism thus conspired to sketch out firm maps of the extent of human personality and the limited ambit of scientific representation.
Roughly speaking, chaotic fluid particle motion may result when structures in the flow conspire to strongly stretch, contract and fold a region of fluid.
Many of the representations which conspire in the semantics from which language is inextricable, in vision, in motor action, in emotion, are analogue representations.
This, in spite of the fact that they then also ran the risk of being accused of conspiring against the state.
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