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Is he further aware that if anything of this kind were connived at surreptitiously, it would have a very bad effect indeed on public confidence?
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In that way, too many connived in overmanning.
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The police are thought in some quarters to possibly be conniving together to get a conviction.
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The strength of the system is that they are completely separate, and arrive at their decisions without conniving with one other.
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He said that it must be made plain whether they had connived or not.
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I have little doubt, on the constitutional issue, that what we are at present conniving at is wrong.
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The doctors have a much more serious complaint to make in the charge that is brought against them of conniving at malingering.
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If the man is out of the way he would neither have consented nor connived.
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He will stand accused of conniving at a cover-up, and he will be paving the way to a whitewash.
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In fact, film authorities have been associated with and conniving with education authorities that the law shall be broken.
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If so, is not one then conniving at the breaking of the law?
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Not only does he think that people are malingering—apparently he thinks that doctors are conniving at it.
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All he has to prove is that he neither consented nor connived.
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The world must face the fact that if one tolerates a single act of aggression, one connives at them all.
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By so doing, in a way they are conniving at its decline and perhaps accelerating its decline.
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We are contriving and conniving at undermining parents.
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Are you going to fine the auctioneer for conniving at the offence?
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Even worse is to have rationing imposed unilaterally on our own fishermen while others are left free, or their misdeeds connived at by their authorities.
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The cinema proprietors were openly breaking the law and local authorities were conniving at it.
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All the dishonesty, duplicity, conniving and manoeuvring would still have been taking place.
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The child's status in law is the same as that of the child conceived in adultery at which the husband had connived.
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The governors have connived at the violation of the charter that it gives them the responsibility to uphold.
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If we do not do this, we are conniving at misleading advertising.
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He connived at a policy of increasing the interest rate which meant that the people could not pay the rent.
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They have committed and connived at the most appalling crimes.
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We connived by failing to take action in time—the quite simple action that anybody who knew anything about the situation knew was absolutely necessary.
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We have been charged with conniving at breaches of the law.
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I was never sure whether she knew this herself, whether she connived in it or lived on in ignorance.
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Should we not all be ashamed that we have connived at the type of cruelty to animals that has been exposed in this trade?
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I take a case where he has connived and colluded in a breach of the law.
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He knows perfectly well whether in a particular instance he consented or connived.
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At that time, none of us arranged or connived at charging a tuition fee.
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I hope that none of us, when we leave this place, will be sorry that we connived at the change.
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I say "we" because all parties have connived in quiescence and a lack of candour.
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You are accusing a man of connivance and yet the employer may never have connived at the act.
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What disturbed us most was that military personnel who were responsible for civilian employees were conniving in the operation.
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If we had wanted the legislature to be a proper legislature, we would not have connived in our decline into semi-superfluity.
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However, they connived with one or two other people in the authority to express an interest.
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The practice is, therefore, that large numbers of people are putting in for wages and management connives at paying the wages out.
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I am much obliged to my noble friend—connived at.
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They are not conniving at the breaking of the law.
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The suggestion was that if we had not expressed that wish we had at any rate connived at the keeping of these institutions.
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There should not be any halfway house when a breach of the law is being connived at.
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Indeed, not only did they hope that, but they connived at it.
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A great many, certainly most of the important ones, are either instigated, connived at or acquiesced in by the union officials concerned.
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There were incidents of a most remarkable kind where they had in fact connived, but they were in a very difficult and dangerous situation.
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To those who complain to their elected representatives, it appears that one part of the state is conniving at undermining the power of another part.
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The idea that there is a conspiracy of conniving continentals seeking to rob us of our birthright is a bogey.
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If the son was in the house for three and a half years, somebody else must have connived at it.
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If we neglect the resources of our village craftsmen, we shall be conniving at the depreciation of the moral of this country.
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They connived in breaking of the embargo, with the sole intention of discrediting the report and many distinguished members of the commission.
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They were caught conniving with business and trying to persecute business people when they were found out.
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They must all be conniving at this vicious situation.
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They may or may not do so subsequently, but it is beyond me to understand why they have connived in this grubby little parliamentary manoeuvre.
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An owner or occupier should be liable to conviction only if it can be shown that he instigated, encouraged or connived at the offence.
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Clause 46 provides for the personal liability of the directors if they have consented to or connived at a breach.
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If a company claims that a union is conniving in unofficial action, it can already take the union to court.
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What is being said here is that somehow or other, improperly, the newly elected councillors have connived with officials to give them salaries greater than they should have.
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Governments have connived in that.
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If they will not they will be conniving at a further widening of the imbalance between the industrial north and the more prosperous areas of the south.
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In the extremely unlikely event that the council and the officials connived to contravene the prohibition, that would come to light through the auditors; scrutiny of the accounts.
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The firms concerned clearly connived at sharing out the contracts between them, and charged prices up to four times as much as the estimates given by direct works departments.
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There can be no question of our permitting, tolerating or conniving at discussions or negotiations about the giving up of our nuclear forces in our absence.
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The doctor guilty of misconduct, and misconduct means anything which has a hearing upon the charge of encouraging or conniving at malingering, ought not to be retained on the panel.
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On another of the strays is a golf course; and there have been irregularities in the past which have been connived at and ought to be put straight.
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Before the director can be convicted it must first be proved that the company has committed the offence and then that the director either consented or connived in it.
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He could then perfectly well say that he had established one of the alternative defences, namely, that he had not consented to or connived at the commission of the offence.
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You are conniving at an illegality.
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There have been cases where some lenders have connived with unscrupulous landlords in leasehold blocks to add service charge bills to mortgages to protect their own interest.
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If they want to restore order their first duty is to stop these so-called reprisals and endeavour to award due punishment to those who have allowed or connived at them.
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He's also notorious for being idle, greedy, incompetent, conniving, dimwitted, dastardly and chatty.
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He's mean, conniving, and, with the computer brain he stole, super intelligent.
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He had an interesting relationship with his late sister; though they often fought, they were both conniving and willing to keep each other's secrets.
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Mean-spirited and conniving, her cruelty belies an intense self-loathing.
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She is generally seen as a very cold-hearted and conniving young woman, but has proved herself to be very insecure.
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The ecclesiastical authorities connived at his keeping his prebends and at his preaching in public.
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She is conniving, wicked, and tries her best to keep her son away from all things good and warm.
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The other is the childish raven, always selfish, sly, conniving, and hungry.
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He was sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for three years, while a bureaucrat who connived in the operation was sentenced for one year.
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Despite her conniving and vindictive nature, she often displays tender and genuine compassion toward family and loved one.
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He is mildly troubled that his firm expends considerable effort conniving to avoid paying its legitimate taxes.
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The character has been described as conniving and scheming.
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At heart, however, she is conniving and selfish.
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Skaven are portrayed as sneaky, conniving, selfish, cowardly and backstabbing.
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The conceits point to a monstrous self-perversion, the forfeiting of integrity and the living out of a lie at which, moreover, his mind or heart knowingly connives.
Not only does he connive, she does so too, as in that most disturbing poem, 138, where the second-person form is strikingly absent.
Advocating gender rather than class loyalties, the playwright urges a form of consumer radicalism that has little patience with women who connive in the oppression of their sisters.
They have passed the buck and have connived with and are in the thrall of that power.
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We need communication networks that promote respect for the environment and do not connive at its destruction.
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If we let this matter go by default, then we are almost conniving at, and we are certainly acceding to, what is a ramp.
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He connived at the way it was passed.
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However, because it is domestic, there is always a suggestion that the woman somehow connived at the treatment that she received.
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I greatly regret that there is, in my opinion, evidence that the police connived in this exceedingly distasteful incident.
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In the past, fire authorities may have been over-complacent—and complaisant—in conniving with that, and we must address the issue.
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As it is, they have connived at every inflationary wage claim that has been submitted.
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The correct analogy is that the director himself knows whether he consented or connived.
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Then there are the people at the top—those who connived at this share issue.
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They are guilty men: they have connived in this project.
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She did not inform the authorities, so that of course she must have connived at it.
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