conspire against something

Examples of conspiring

conspiring

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

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.
This, in spite of the fact that they then also ran the risk of being accused of conspiring against the state.
Secondly, there was a danger of the executive conspiring with members of the legislature to ensure his reelection.
The changes involved have traditionally been understood as conspiring to optimize syllable quantity according to the position of the syllable in the word.
Thus, at least on one level, music mimes the narrative progress of the text, conspiring with it to ignore the trail of discontinuities left by the constraints of censorship.
To the contrary: the author is conspiring to make the reader only too aware of the act in which she is engaged; the irony lies in revelation, not pretense.
But as the structure of obligation moves forward in time, revenge becomes an expression neither simply of four conspiring boys, nor even of their organized-crime neighbors.
To make things even worse, several factors have come into play together, as if conspiring to hit farmers when they are down.
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