conspire against something

Examples of conspired

conspired

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

And these old southerners also conspired as a group to forestall any challenge to the southern segregation system, their obsessive interest.
There is no allegation that this was done because of the race or color of the persons conspired against.
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.
Together, these have conspired to eat away at the status of canonical composers and categories of high and low in music.
They blasphemed and sang dirty songs, struck up illicit conversations with female inmates, conspired to escape, and plotted revenge against personal enemies or the government.
Yet the urban environment often conspired against this.
And politicians have conspired to hide this ugly truth.
Two factors conspired to undermine the new modus operandi.
Storytellers commonly sensed that age, inappropriate training and professional experience had conspired to prohibit new careers.
Here again, the constraints of the commercial recording industry have conspired to greatly devalue the true characteristics of this landmark work.
She concluded that although nurses at an individual level did not appear overtly to disadvantage minority ethnic patients, institutional forces conspired to perpetuate the disadvantage experienced by minority ethnic communities.
Darji closed the hearing by stating that the enforcers of law and order had conspired with vested interests in suppressing the truth.
It is likely that abundant, cheap electricity providing artificial lighting, mechanical ventilation and cooling, all conspired to allow the design of buildings to be less rigorously thought out.
In other words, if the defendants had not counted ballots as intended, then they had conspired to deny these ninety-seven voters of their federally protected rights.
It democratized the historical cast that political historians (with their great men) and intellectual historians (with their great books) had conspired to winnow down to the few.
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