What do I mean by the connivance of government?
If the prime minister and foreign secretary were not themselves told by Israeli sources of the intended abduction, was there some connivance by the British security services?
The prison abuse scandal refuses to die because soothing White House explanations keep colliding with revelations about dead prisoners and further connivance by senior military officers -- and newly discovered victims, like Sean Baker.
It's now clear that our credit system the world over was rotten all the way through, a giant house of cards maintained by the ingenious connivance of banks, rating agencies and insurance companies in a monumental heist.
This leads, in the second act, to a number of ill-assorted trysts, none more awkward than that of the hero, Pyotr, with a woman whom he thinks is the Ballerina but who, by dint of connivance between the Ballerina and Pyotr's wife, Zina, is actually Zina in disguise.
Mr. Megrahi and his sympathizers depicted him for years after his conviction, and with renewed energy after he was allowed to return to Libya after serving 8 years of a 27-year minimum sentence in a Scottish jail, as a victim of flawed evidence and connivance by Western intelligence agencies in withholding vital information.
Russia blamed the earlier violence on "connivance by Western politicians" and their refusal to consider the "aggressive actions" of radical factions within the protest movement.
The military were furious at the alleged connivance by Afghan intelligence in giving sanctuary to the militant Pashtun leader from Swat, Mullah Fazlullah who had established a base in the Afghan province of Kunar.
Russia blamed the upsurge in violence on "connivance by Western politicians and European structures" and their refusal to consider the "aggressive actions" of radical factions within the protest movement.
