Sentence examples for In connivance from inspiring English sources

New, more careful counts revealed that previous censuses had been inflated by officials who either were in connivance with poachers or were merely eager to impress their superiors.

The trouble really began in 2006, when the military, in connivance with royalists and the courts, overthrew the populist prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

The Ecomog force commander Gen Kpamber was also involved in the illegal diamond mining in connivance with RUF leader Foday Sankoh," Gen Jetley wrote.

One charged that a group called the Democratic State Parties Organization had been set up in connivance with the Democratic National Committee to collect and spend soft money on federal elections in the 2004 campaign.

They point to the politically powerful fishing industry based in the coastal city of Manta, which they contend is operating in connivance with corrupt government officials here and on the mainland.

Mr. Dias and his committee estimates that a handful of team managers, in connivance with agents here and in Europe -- where Brazilian players like Ronaldo and Rivaldo are some of the sport's biggest draws -- have illegally pocketed at least $40 million.

I won't spoil the ending except to say that Don finds Christian redemption while Boaz remains unscrupulous and unrepentant — and even revels in the connivance of another Jewish partner in crime.

Though the tome sheds no new light on the reasons for the downfall of the state-owned bank, which had to be bailed out earlier this year after losing FFr6.9 billion $1.2 billionn) in 1993, it is a damning summary of a system in which "connivance" between Crédit Lyonnais's management and its state owner brought the bank to its knees.

The chapter on AIDS begins with a sharp note of criticism: an accusation that the medical establishment is acting "in passive connivance with the homosexual lobby".

Communal violence this week in the Gujarati city of Vadodara recalled his government's connivance in an anti-Muslim pogrom in 2002.Traditionalists in the BJP blame the pragmatic coalition politics of men like Mr Mahajan for alienating the party's core Hindu supporters: this, they reckon, was the true reason for the loss of the last election.

In return, Indonesia received billions of corporate dollars plus, crucially, international connivance in covering up human rights abuses.