The word "abet" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to mean to help or encourage someone to do something wrong or illegal. For example, "The criminal was charged with abetting the bank robbery."
That might seem straightforward, but moving the CRS forward can be like herding cats: there are 93 countries in the project, all at different stages of ratifying the existing blueprint.The OECD hopes that upright financial firms will turn in rivals that abet tax evasion once the CRS kicks in, if only to stop them stealing business.
And, in general, allies have been willing to abet such hypocrisy The reason the United States has until now suffered few consequences for such hypocrisy is that other states have a strong interest in turning a blind eye.
Computer makers are understandably reluctant to abet a massive censorship scheme, or to anger their customers with unwelcome software.
But foreign holders, so far, are paying no tax, and whether they report their Swiss income to their own tax authorities is up to them.This looks like an opportunity to get round the taxman, and the Swiss are unrepentant about offering it, although they insist that they would not aid and abet anything illegal.
What accounts for the differences?The simplest explanation is just that America is willing to overlook or even abet the use of poison gas by its allies or associates, which Iraq was in 1988 when the Reagan administration was trying to contain Iran.
Then comes the Soviet retreat and the Nazi occupation a sinister non-liberation, bringing a terrible fate to the Jewish population, and a moral abyss for those who directly or indirectly abet it.All this comes as flashbacks, seen through the eyes of the young Jacob Balthus.
To lump even jihadists together as a single globalised movement is unwittingly to abet their propaganda and strengthen their bleak division of the world into Muslims and unbelievers.
The Bosnian town of Bijeljina, once a black spot for ethnic cleansing, is now a way-station for south Asians who pay around $16,000 per head to be smuggled into the EU heartland: half on departure and half on arrival.People-smuggling is done with the consent of those involved; they have no further debt to the gangsters who abet them once they arrive.
Mesrine zips in and out of jail, commits crimes when he feels like it (which is often) and dates a series of kittenish prostitutes who lick his neck or abet his robberies, depending on their affinities.
The campaigners' line is that legal sales merely abet the illegal kind, especially when the black market is way beyond officialdom's control.In this section The return of Mr Nyet Round the horn Reprints Related items Business in China: Busting trustJul 17th 2008 Trade bans and conservation: Call of the wildMar 6th 2008Nobody can deny that China's black market was rampant until recently.
However, it remains unlawful, punishable by up to 14 years in prison, to "aid, abet, counsel or procure" a suicide.
